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India is one of the 2nd largest populated countries in the world, with over one billion inhabitants. Of this number, it’s estimated that more or less 7 million Indians are currently living with HIV. HIV emerged later in India than it did in many...
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The candidacy of Mario Anguiano, running for governor in a state election here Sunday, says a lot about Mexican politics amid the rise of the drug cartels.
A brother...
made popular Jul 4 2009
Two of Mexico’s famed midget wrestlers were found dead in a hotel room Wednesday, after apparently being drugged and robbed by prostitutes in the Moderna hotel...
made popular Jul 3 2009
“What is at stake today is not just the result of an election, but rather the future of democracy, of representative institutions,” he said. “For years … crime...
made popular Jun 27 2009
Filed under: News, Weird When Mexican officials discovered almost a ton of cocaine inside a shipment of frozen sharks, it was hard not to feel a tinge of respect for...
made popular Jun 25 2009
If you know what’s good for you, fisherman Teodoro Contreras says, stay away from certain places after sunset on the beaches of Mexico’s southern...
made popular Jun 24 2009
“I like what I do,” he told the police in a videotaped confession. “I don’t deny it.”
Mr. Reta was 13 when he was recruited by the Zetas, the infamous...
made popular Jun 23 2009
Today in Cancún, police were led to an abandoned Jeep with three dead men announcing a new group, the Mata Zetas, or the Killers of Zetas. The Zetas are the armed...
made popular Jun 22 2009
A stray golden retriever mix who had recently wandered into the hearts of a poor family outside Monterrey, Mexico, was deemed a hero today as he saved his four year old...
made popular Jun 22 2009
A group of armed men blew up an ambulance Friday, apparently with a grenade, to kill a rival who was being transferred from one hospital to another.
The attackers,...
made popular Jun 20 2009
I have seen many debates involving criminals, punishments, rehabilitation, and the death penalty. In general, although skeptical and at times cynical, I am a hopeful...
made popular Jun 20 2009
I’m sorry, I just don’t get it. I know I tend to be both skeptical and cynical, but putting a statue of little Edgar Hernandez, Mexico’s first swine...
made popular Jun 20 2009
Many of the firearms fuelling Mexican drug violence originated in the United States, says a new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released...
made popular Jun 19 2009
Scientists are genetically modifying a bizarre looking Mexican salamander, which according to ancient mythology is a transformed Aztec god, in the hope its ability to...
made popular Jun 19 2009
One election spot shows a masked wrestler fighting drug traffickers and promising to crack down on cartels. Another ad vows to give the death penalty to kidnappers. A...
made popular Jun 18 2009
The Mexican Navy says it has seized more than a tonne of cocaine hidden inside the carcasses of frozen sharks.
Armed officers found slabs of cocaine inside more than...
made popular Jun 17 2009
Mexican driver Carlos Pardo,33, has been killed in a brutal crash during the final laps of a NASCAR Mexico race, at Autodromo Miguel E. Abed, in Puebla.
Pardo was...
made popular Jun 16 2009
The PAN (National Action Party) mayoral candidate for San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon, Mauricio Fernández Garza, has been reported as establishing pre-election...
made popular Jun 16 2009
Fame is always an inspiring force after any ambitious attempt and this useless 60.1 meter-long pair of trousers is one of them. Mexicans have made it only to get in the...
made popular Jun 15 2009
The general director of of Mexico’s Social Security Institute, Daniel Karam, has accepted and announced investigative findings confirming irregularities in the...
made popular Jun 13 2009
The Archdiocese of Mexico’s weekly “Desde la Fe,” has called on voters not to leave their ballots unchecked or to abstain from voting during the July 5 elections,...
made popular Jun 13 2009
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U.S. senators urged Malaysia to probe claims by refugees from Myanmar that Malaysian immigration officials handed them over to human traffickers on Malaysia’s...
made popular Apr 24 2009
AP, Los Angeles
Prosecutors say a man made about $1.5 million from a conspiracy with a school official to resell human body parts donated to the University of California medical...
made popular Apr 22 2009
AIDS is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV is a virus that is mainly transmitted by having sex with an infected partner. HIV also is spread through...
made popular Mar 19 2009
The spread from the high-risk behavior groups to the general populace is another key indicator that HIV/AIDs in India has reached epidemic proportions. The disease is...
made popular Mar 19 2009
AP, United Nations
Central American nations need urgent international help to confront the increasingly dangerous presence of Mexican and Colombian drug cartels, the head of a U.N.-backed...
made popular Feb 24 2009
AP, United Nations
Who are the perpetrators behind human trafficking around the world? Surprisingly, it’s often women, the U.N. reported Thursday.
made popular Feb 12 2009
AP, Los Angeles
The former chief of UCLA’s cadaver program has been sentenced to more than four years in prison for his role in selling donated body parts.
made popular Jan 31 2009
AP, New York
The first clues that this could be a different kind of railroad experience are in a passenger guide that includes drawings depicting the proper way to display a poker...
made popular Jan 30 2009
AP, Beijing
Chinese authorities have detained 13 members of a gang suspected of kidnapping and selling children, sometimes swooping by on motorcycles and snatching them in broad...
made popular Jan 15 2009
AP, New York
Federal judges can give harsher penalties to people who help bring illegal guns to big cities, a federal appeals court decided Thursday.
made popular Dec 4 2008
AP, New York
A Manhattan appeals court says federal judges can give extra-stiff penalties to people who help bring illegal guns to big cities.
made popular Dec 4 2008
AP, Austin
Two men will serve prison time in a scheme to smuggle deer from Minnesota to Texas for trophy hunts.
made popular Nov 26 2008
AP, Belgrade
Serbian officials denounced Albania on Wednesday for refusing to investigate claims that Kosovo Albanian guerillas killed Serb prisoners for their organs during the...
made popular Oct 29 2008
AP, Belgrade
Serbia’s war crimes prosecutor wants to travel to Albania to probe allegations that Kosovo guerillas killed Serb prisoners there years ago and sold their organs.
made popular Oct 23 2008
AP, Los Angeles
The former chief of UCLA’s willed body program has pleaded guilty for his role in selling donated body parts.
made popular Oct 17 2008
Once mainly a smuggling corridor for drugs heading to the United States, Mexico is grappling with the effects of a fast-rising addiction rate as relatively cheap...
made popular Oct 16 2008
AP, Paris
The son of a former French president, an Israeli-Russian billionaire and a tycoon with ties to Arizona’s jet set were among the headliners Monday as 42 defendants...
made popular Oct 6 2008
AP, Paris
The son of a late French president, an Israeli-Russian billionaire and 40 other people charged with trafficking arms to war-riven Angola or taking kickbacks will face...
made popular Oct 6 2008
Brazilian police seized 8 tons of marijuana Friday morning in Sao Jose das Palmeiras, in southern Parana state near the Paraguayan border
made popular Oct 4 2008
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FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2009 file photo, Myanmar refugees participate in a demonstration outside the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. On Thursday, April 23, 2009, an international human rights group has.
