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Colombia’s fight against drug trafficking is failing and needs new proposals and UN guidance, declared former Colombian Foreign Minister Rodrigo Pardo Tuesday.
The introduction of new anti-drug initiatives as well as greater multilateralism were two...
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Argentina - Valuing truth over the right to privacy, Argentina’s Congress has authorized the forced extraction of DNA from people who may have been born to...
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A 5-year-old North Carolina girl was raped and killed the same day she was taken from her home, according to an arrest warrant released Friday. Shaniya Davis was...
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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Saturday vowed to continue Russia’s anti-crisis program as the economy moves out of one of the deepest recessions in post-Soviet...
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President Hosni Mubarak vowed on Saturday that Egypt will be firm in dealing with attacks on its nationals, amid hot tempers and a diplomatic spat with Algeria over a...
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Alessandra Mussolini, a right-wing MP, said she was outraged and upset when she heard reports that the remains of her grandfather were being sold online.
The initial...
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Friday that the United States could start holding Afghanistan’s government accountable for corruption by withholding money for...
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representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay met in Caracas to sign the protocol for the entrance of Venezuela into the Southern Common Market (Mercosur)....
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“There should be no differences between black Jews and white Jews,” said Ayeli, 29, who was among 15,000 people who this week celebrated the...
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Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on Friday declared that his country will not retaliate with war threats against Venezuela, his only aim being to defeat terrorism in...
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More than 50,000 people have fled clashes between two ethnic groups in north-western Democratic Republic of Congo in recent weeks, the UN says.
Many of those fleeing...
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Tony Blair warned Gordon Brown a week ago that his campaign to become the first president of the European Council was doomed after a decisive intervention by the German...
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In almost every way, David Headley was the perfect neighbour. When the 49-year-old American citizen began renting an apartment in Mumbai last year he charmed his...
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Hangu police on Friday morning acted efficiently to dispose a bomb placed outside a high school and college building in the Muslim Abad neighborhood of the town. The...
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A gas explosion tore through a state-run coal mine in northern China on Saturday, killing 42 people and leaving 66 others trapped underground as rescuers worked hastily...
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A transsexual Brazilian prostitute known as ‘Brenda,’ who was linked to a sex scandal involving former Italian politician Piero Marrazzo, has been found...
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A group of hackers recently broke into the email system at the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU), one of the leading climate research...
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Federal officials say they arrested a man who strapped 15 live lizards to his chest to get through customs at Los Angeles International Airport.
The U.S. Fish and...
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Conspicuous by its absence was India. Was India not on his radar? Or was it such a close ally that he skipped naming it at a public function? It left New Delhi...
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For millions of children in India, childhood is an elusive dream, as a UN report has revealed that 5,000 children below five die every day.
It may be a shocking...
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THE five leaders of the East African Community (EAC) have signed a landmark agreement for a common market which allows free movement of people, goods, labour and...
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The growing number of police killings of suspected criminals in Rio de Janeiro’s war on drugs is linked to bonuses now paid to “brave” police...
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Reporting from Culiacan, Mexico - In the story making the rounds here in Mexico’s drug capital, the setting is a beauty parlor. A woman with wealth obtained...
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The number of minors swept up in Mexico’s drug wars — as killers and victims — is soaring, with U.S. and Mexican officials warning that a toxic...
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Finally U.S. politicians have understood that the War on Drugs and by extension Plan Colombia has failed. As it was to be expected the Colombian government swiftly...
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The murder rate in Ciudad Juarez on the Mexico-US border has reached an all-time high amid battles between rival drug cartels, Mexican officials say.
Up to...
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Look people, we’re not idiots. But we come pretty close. And it’s disturbing how many people in this country still believe in the fried egg theory of drug...
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All I can say is Mexico can easily clear their national debts now.
Clearly, crime pays.
$207 million recovered.
Note: This story is old but look at the cash.
The...
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A surge in drug-related violence the last 24 hours has seen at least 40 people killed in the troubled northern border region and President Felipe Calderon’s home...
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Amid a growing Latin American backlash against the US-sponsored ‘war on drugs’, some South American states are preparing to decriminalize drugs.
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You don’t know how long I’ve been trying to get in touch with you. I know I kind of wander in and out of Church, and I’ll be the first to admit...
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Here’s a dubious honor belonging to the United States: the world’s largest prison population.
The United States imprisons more people than any other...
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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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Close to a black cross where Mexican drug cartels used to place the severed heads of their rivals, and near the site where the mutilated bodies of 12 police officers...
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GUATEMALA CITY - Guatemalan drug boss Juan Jose “Juancho” Leon was summoned by Mexican traffickers for what he was told was business. Instead, dozens of...
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Reporting from Altar, Mexico — On a cloudless afternoon in northern Sonora, migrants and drug runners lounge in equal numbers under scattered mesquite trees,...
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A massive army surge has failed to calm raging drug gang violence in Ciudad Juarez, a Mexican city on the U.S. border that is at the heart of President Felipe...
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“The PRI comes back” shouted the front page headline of the daily newspaper El Universal on Monday, the day after the political party known as the PRI swept midterm...
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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...
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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...
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