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Mexican authorities say they have seized a record 37 tons of chemicals used illegally to create methamphetamine drugs. The Attorney General’s office announced Friday it was the largest seizure of the chemical precursors to methamphetamines in...
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Predominately white trade union Solidarity is taking South Africa’s government to court, alleging racial discrimination in the police force.
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Ethiopian rebels have launched a wide offensive in the southeastern Somali ethnic Ogaden region and recaptured seven towns from government forces, they claimed Saturday...
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Authorities have announced charges against the owner of a beauty clinic that allegedly performed a botched buttock job on Mexican rock star Alejandra Guzman.
The...
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A former leader of Congo’s Ninja militias has died in Paris, aged 76.
Bernard Kolelas was an MP in Congo at the time of his death and was a popular politician in...
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A Guinean court has charged a second son of the late President Lansana Conte with drug trafficking.
Moussa Conte and his three alleged associates deny importing...
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Saudi Arabia has evacuated 240 villages because of fighting with Yemeni rebels, the UN children’s fund has reported.
The Unicef statement said more than 50...
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Doctors in Iraq’s war-ravaged enclave of Falluja are dealing with up to 15 times as many chronic deformities in infants and a spike in early life cancers that may...
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U.S. Army Specialist Alexis Hutchinson, a single mother, is being threatened with a military court-martial if she does not agree to deploy to Afghanistan, despite...
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Algeria’s team bus was attacked by stone-throwing fans in Cairo on Thursday ahead of Saturday’s highly-charged World Cup qualifier against Egypt, police officials...
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In a cavernous warehouse amid rolling hills and dairy farms, a group of farmers recently gathered around a buyer in a conversation heralding a sea change in the United...
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A circus lion went on a night-time odyssey in Germany when thieves stole the van carrying him and then abandoned it after crashing into a road sign.
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Sarah Palin’s new book reprises familiar claims from the 2008 presidential campaign that haven’t become any truer over time. Ignoring substantial parts of...
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Girls’ expectations that they can “have it all” may be overly ambitious and they should not feel guilty for taking time out of future careers to raise...
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Florida police say a man arrested for repeatedly calling 911 looking for sex claimed it was the only number he could dial after running out of cell phone minutes. Tampa...
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Colombian stocks and bonds will fall if market-friendly President Alvaro Uribe is barred by the courts from running for a third term next year, a ruling that would...
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The document calls for a “combination of carrot and stick” to encourage Taliban commanders and foot soldiers to lay down their arms and rejoin Afghan...
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People hurled stones and eggs at the Kosovan prime minister’s convoy this week, a spurt of violence just days before the one-time Serbian province holds its first...
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The bulletproof jacket worn on 26/11 by Hemant Karkare, the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief gunned down by terrorists, was among a lot
of 110 rejected first as...
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Gunmen shoot a priest and two seminary students in the back. Federal police storm a Mass to capture a suspected drug kingpin. Priests pray with the families of murdered...
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Heavy snow has left 21 people dead in north and central China since Monday, the Ministry of Civil Affairs announced (MCA) Friday.
The ministry did not detail the...
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Tangled in the front line trenches of Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s anti-narcotics campaign are the country’s growing legions of addicts, who find...
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A court has ordered Bolivian preacher, Jose Mar Flores, kept in jail during the investigation into sabotage and kidnapping charges in the hijacking of a jetliner from...
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Okay, so maybe we aren’t actually launching the Atlantis, but in a round about way, we’ll be there as American astronaut of Mexican heritage, José...
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Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Felipe Calderon from Mexico called for a strategic alliance between the two countries based on free trade and...
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President Felipe Calderon says Mexico will start issuing nationwide identity cards for its citizens starting this year, and by 2012 everyone will have one. The cards...
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Kenya AGO summit to promote exports
Ten years since the African Growth Opportunity Act (Agoa) was established, Kenya has only taken advantage of about 12 out of 6,500...
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There are currently over 45,000 armed troops pounding the streets of our nation. U.S. and Mexican government officials say the military strategy, while difficult, is...
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For the past five days, the Mexican state of Michoacan as well as other surrounding states have been under fire as leaders of La Familia Michoacana cartel declared an...
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We want to tell you and we want someone to hear us, let us be heard by the President of the Mexican Republic, Mr. Felipe Calderon.-
A man claiming to be...
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We know that it is a politically delicate topic because Americans truly appreciate their constitutional rights, and particularly those that are part of the Second...
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It’s official. Hillary Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State, has come and gone after a whirlwind drug war strategy marathon with President Calderon and her Mexican...
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Joaquin Guzman Loera has not only become famous for being a self made billionaire but also commands enough power to create international conflict even in absence.
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With a heavy heart, I announce this will be my last citizen journal post. With what I am sure will be seen by my Mexican government as an extreme act of treason and...
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Enough with the U.S.-Mexico drug war blame game. Let’s make a new rule: Only those who don’t live in glass houses stuffed with cocaine, meth, marijuana,...
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On Thursday, February 19, our nation’s official Mexican Army Day, amidst multistate anti-army protests, President Felipe Calderon not only stood firm in his...
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Sound a bit far fetched, perhaps the plot of the newest straight to DVD movie? I wish it were, but sadly it is not. This headline is precisely the reason, regardless of...
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What is the real plan behind the MIERDA, oops, Merida Initiative?
Dammit, I always confuse those two words lately. Mierda is Spanish for poop, crap, caca, or shit....
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Since taking office on Dec. 1, 2006, Calderon has sent more than 40,000 soldiers to battle drug trafficking across Mexico. So much has been said, and not said,...
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Mexico’s warring cartels are negotiating a truce that, if it holds, could end one of the bloodiest eras since the 1910-20 Mexican Revolution, according to a U.S....
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