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One cop straight out of The Wire crunches the numbers with Esquire.com’s political columnist to discover that America’s prohibition of narcotics may be costing more lives than Mexico’s — and nearly enough dollars for universal health care. So...
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The UN expressed concerns Wednesday about threats made against Colombian judicial officials and warned that some were coming from the government and police.
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At first, Luis F. Alarid seemed well on his way to becoming a customs agency success story. He had risen from a childhood of poverty and foster homes, some of them...
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A mother posted messages on Twitter as rescue workers tried to save her dying son.
Shellie Ross, who is in her 30s, sent out ‘tweets’ to the social networking site...
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The anxiety and anger have been building all year. In March, a national coalition of Islamic organizations warned that it would cease cooperating with the F.B.I. unless...
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has granted asylum to the 12 members of the National Football (Soccer) Team of Eritrea that defected in Kenya on...
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First it was cocaine. Now Mexico’s drug kingpins are offering an even more addictive substance to their American customers: black gold.
This isn’t slang for a new...
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Nearly 3,000 child soldiers who fought as Maoist guerrillas in Nepal are finally to be released from the camps where they have been confined for the past three years,...
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Yemen today claimed to have killed 34 members of al-Qaida and captured 17 others in security operations in a country in which a growing jihadi presence is ringing alarm...
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For Floripa Lizama and her family, the past is their slapdash wood-plank home located next to an unsightly concrete canal.
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Hugo Chavez accused the Netherlands on Thursday of allowing the United States to use Dutch islands off Venezuela’s Caribbean coast to prepare a possible military...
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The Lebanese navy said it has recovered 38 people and four bodies off the coast of northern Lebanon after a ship with 83 aboard sank Thursday.
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Scary details that North and Southern Sudan are sliding back to war calls for immediate action before its too late.
A newly released report has revealed that both...
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It was bad enough that nearly 300 reindeer tragically drowned before Christmas after the ice collapsed on a Swedish river crossing.
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A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives near a mosque inside a police compound in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing 10 people in the latest attack by...
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Insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan have intercepted live video feeds from Predator drones, a key weapon in a Pentagon spy system that serves as the military’s...
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his son and grandson were shot to death in a Manhattan apartment by a man who wounded the youngest victims mother before falling to his death from a fire escape,...
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It’s not clear who the Iranian Cyber Army is, or if the group is actually responsible for sabotaging Twitter. During the unrest that followed Iran’s...
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If President Obama’s health-care initiative fails, there is no longer a rationale for being a liberal in the United States. Everything else on liberalism’s...
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Yesterday saw the closing of a three-day national conference to identify “best practices and effective measures” in the fight against corruption. The...
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A wave of strikes culminating on Thursdays pan-worker mobilisation has been the response to the scaremongering of the government amidst the worsening economic crisis...
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I am Mexican, I live in Mexico, work in Mexico, raise my family in Mexico and will die here, in Mexico.
Our non-stop finger pointing between us has got to stop....
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Mexico’s ambassador to the US has urged America to stop the flow of guns and cash that pass into his country, fuelling the country’s drug wars.
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The death squads of the drug cartels are killing in spectacularly gruesome ways, using the violence as a language to deliver a message to society.
Two years ago, five...
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I saw, but never knew, God forgive me.
I am fortunate, blessed a million times over. I ofton wonder how a man like me, with a past like mine, came out not only a...
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‘The first victim in every war is truth,’ it also applies to the US led global ‘War on Drugs’. Based on the fanciful notions that...
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