Santo Domingo

Spanish scientists will announce details of the origins of Christopher Columbus on Saturday after using a DNA analysis technique to solve a five-century-old mystery.

Hurricane Beryl churned towards Jamaica Tuesday, with forecasters warning of potentially deadly winds and storm surge, after the storm killed at least seven people and caused widespread destruction across the southeastern Caribbean.

Reynoso and her neighbours, who live in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, would go without running water for 22 days

Five Turkish citizens who were kidnapped by a Haitian gang last month have been released, a source close to the case said on June 15.

Details on the circumstances of their release the day before were not available, but the men - aged between 20 and 26 - are in apparent good physical health, the source said.    

Actor Ray Liotta, who starred in Martin Scorsese's gangster classic "Goodfellas," has died suddenly in the Dominican Republic, officials and police said on May 26. He was 67.

Seventeen Colombian ex-soldiers are thought to have been involved in the assassination of Haiti's President Jovenel Moise, Colombia's police director said on July 9. 

The Foreign Ministry issued a warning for Turkish citizens traveling to regions affected by Hurricane Maria on Sept. 19. 

Maria, which has intensified to a Category 5 storm in the last 24 hours, hit Puerto Rico on Sept. 20 after battering Dominica overnight. 

Christina Mpompa is doing some Yoga while her boyfriend Sakis Tanimanides is busy as the host of the Greek version of the reality show “Survivor” in Santo Domingo.

She followed him there, of course, and doesn’t seem to mind a lot by the fact that he is so busy… She has her yoga and with just one photo the Instagram went crazy!

Chef Mauricio Eduardo Nunez Diaz of Chile is the opening competitor on Tuesday at Bocuse d'Or, a contest worth calling the World Cup of gastronomy. Chile is represented for the first time.

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