From Sparta to Nicaragua, disasters alter political history
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History suggests that South Asia's tsunami tragedy could engender regional political fallout.
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Identifying human remains found in the disaster zone grows trickier.
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Evacuation has been a struggle and an ever-changing odyssey for hundreds of thousands
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Far from the heartland of the "mother culture," the ruins may rewrite the history of Central America's first advanced civilization.
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When disaster strikes, it can be catastrophic but the President's official home has a relatively good record of preventing conflagrations
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SEOUL -- By some accounts, it was a disaster of biblical proportions that afflicted North Korea in July.
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Many displaced people got their first look last week at homes destroyed by renewed fighting.
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The walk through the decaying seaside mansion is a grim reminder of the political carnage that wracked Peru over two decades and killed nearly 70,000 people. The photos stare from peeling walls in a stark chronicle of the bloodbath.
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Kathleen Tierney, a disaster researcher, says that catastrophes change the way people experience time.
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If Hurricane Charley had struck three years ago, President Bush's tour through the wreckage of this coastal city would have been just the sort of post-disaster visit that other presidents have made to the scenes of storms, earthquakes, floods and fires.
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ESTELI, Nicaragua  - The United States hoped it   had seen the last of Daniel Ortega, a Cold War foe who led   Nicaragua's Sandinista revolution, when he was voted out of   power in 1990 after a brutal war against U.S.-backed rebels.
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Two gatherings in the nation's capital help point up the difference between theorizing about war--and fighting one.
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The year 2004, already full of turmoil, instability and uncertainty for Sri Lanka, is ending on a tragic note. A year of man-made political quakes is winding up with a nature-made disaster.
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GONAIVES, Haiti - Victims who lost relatives, homes and belongings in Tropical Storm Jeanne are now tormented by street gangs who attack food convoys, raid homes at night and shoot those who get in their way.    The failure of Haiti's U.S.-backed government to disarm the gangs that helped oust President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has created a climate of instability that further jeopardizes lives after the calamity Jeanne visited on Gonaives 10 days ago...
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Hurricane Katrina is emerging as a potent political metaphor for 2008 White House hopefuls, two years after ravaging New Orleans and blemishing President George W. Bush&#39;s record.
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A day-by-day account charting how the Asian tsunami disaster unfolded.
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THREE YEARS after 9/11/01, presidential politics is driven by fear of terrorism and war in Iraq. 9/11 represents horrifying failure of America&#39;s defense that happened on George Bush&#39;s watch.