Hong Kong reports 1st case of H7N9 bird flu
HONG KONG — Hong Kong has reported its first case of the H7N9 bird flu strain, in a possible sign the virus is spreading beyond mainland China since it first emerged there earlier this year. The...
View ArticleMexico seminary joins list of extortion callers' targets
MEXICO CITY — It is a distressingly common part of life in modern Mexico: the bullying phone call demanding that the person who answers pay up — or else. Businesses get the extortion calls. Families...
View ArticleBird steals camera in Australia, records journey
SYDNEY — A brazen bird snatched a video camera that was recording crocodiles in northwest Australia and captured fascinating footage of its 110-kilometer (70-mile) journey across the country’s remote...
View ArticleBenin judge tries to flee to United States
COTONOU, Benin — A judge who angered the president of the West African nation of Benin says he fled the country over the weekend and is seeking political asylum in the United States. Angelo Houssou...
View ArticleCosta Rica closes probe into 1984 bombing
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Costa Rica’s attorney general says an investigation of the 1984 bombing that killed three journalists and four Nicaraguan rebels at a news conference has been closed after...
View ArticlePower fails in Caracas, other parts of Venezuela
CARACAS, Venezuela — A power blackout briefly darkened all of Venezuela’s capital Monday night, and the government says other parts of the country also lost electricity. Power started coming back on in...
View ArticleHow the US gave guns to Mexican cartels
In September 2009, John Dodson, an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, was assigned to the ATF’s Phoenix office. What he found there shocked him. The bureau was...
View ArticleFormer Governor of State of Tamaulipas, Mexico Indicted in the Southern...
(Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation - San Antonio Field Office) BROWNSVILLE, TX-A federal indictment charging Tomas Yarrington Ruvalcaba, the former governor of the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico,...
View ArticleAustralian suspected of recruiting Syrian fighters
CANBERRA, Australia — Police say they have arrested the alleged Sydney ringleader of a criminal network that sends Australians to fight in Syria. Police estimate that about 100 Australian residents and...
View ArticleIn Cuba, 2 Die As Heavy Rains Collapse Buildings
HAVANA (AP) — Two people are dead from torrential rains that lashed Cuba for more than 24 hours, island authorities said Saturday. The deluge caused multiple collapses in dwellings in Havana, Communist...
View ArticleDetained US vet in NKorea oversaw guerrilla group
SEOUL, South Korea — Six decades before he went to North Korea as a curious tourist, Merrill Newman supervised a group of South Korean guerrillas during the Korean War who were perhaps the most hated...
View ArticleUruguayan President Asks World To Help Him Legalize Weed
Uruguay’s president wants the world to lend him a hand in his quest to legalize weed. In an interview with Brazilian daily A Folha de São Paulo published Sunday, José Mujica defended his push to...
View ArticleIsrael admitted into advisory body to UN
GENEVA — The U.S. and other Western countries say they have admitted Israel into an informal group in Geneva that will provide it with some influence before the U.N. top human rights body. U.S....
View ArticleU.S. Alarmism Denies Complicity in Rising Mexican Asylum Requests
“No sane Mexican would want to live in the U.S.,” explains legal scholar Edgardo Buscaglia, “because of the discrimination there.” “But they have to do it,” he notes, because there simply are not...
View ArticleU.S. accuses ex-governor of Mexico’s Tamaulipas state of laundering...
MEXICO CITY -- The former governor of Mexico’s Tamaulipas state invested millions of dollars in drug sale proceeds in real estate across southern and central Texas, the U.S. government charged in an...
View ArticleU.S. accuses ex-governor of Mexico’s Tamaulipas state of laundering cartel cash
MEXICO CITY The former governor of Mexico’s Tamaulipas state invested millions of dollars in drug sale proceeds in real estate across southern and central Texas, the U.S. government charged in an...
View ArticleMexican army has taken control of major port in effort to combat drug cartel
LAZARO CARDENAS, Mexico — This strategic port has been a major moneymaker for the powerful Knights Templar drug gang, which extorts millions from the city’s businesses and smuggles in meth-making...
View Article7 Latino Artists Who've Pushed To Legalize Weed
While the use and possession of marijuana is becoming increasingly permitted in the United States, there have been a slew Latino celebrities who advocate for the legalization of Mary Jane. Despite the...
View ArticleBiggest exhumation underway from Peru conflict
CHUNGUI, Peru — Valentin Casa can’t shake the recurring nightmares. And this day certainly isn’t helping. The 36-year-old farmer looks on as forensic investigators unearth a pair of finger bones and...
View ArticleThis is why Shiller is wrong about a market bubble: Strategists
Yet another big name is throwing around the b-word. Yale professor Robert Shiller, who just recently won the Nobel Prize for Economics, says he's concerned the market is starting to look bubbly. In a...
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