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THE coup here has brought back a lot of Central America’s cold war ghosts, but few as polarizing as Billy Joya, a former police captain accused of being the former leader of a death squad.
He didn’t sneak quietly back into national politics. He...
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The Horn of Africa is a hotbed of pirates, Islamic radicals, warlords, refugees, and, lately, foreign armies trying to influence this killing field. The epicenter is Somalia, a Muslim land largely in chaos since 1991 and – this is the big worry – a...
Have economic times gotten so bad that some of the dead are going unburied? Several large counties across the country are experiencing unprecedented increases in the number of unclaimed deceased — not only because the dead people could not be...
Since Mr Obama took office, the rate of threats against the president has increased 400 per cent from the 3,000 a year or so under President George W. Bush, according to Ronald Kessler, author of In the President’s Secret Service.
Some threats to...
President Obama issued the following statement after his “beer summit” with Sergeant James Crowley and Henry Louis Gates Jr.:
“I am thankful to Professor Gates and Sergeant Crowley for joining me at the White House this evening...
In an interview with Caracol Radio Monday, Santos addressed local reports of anti-tank weapons manufactured in Sweden being seized from members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, and traced to Venezuela.
“This is not the...
Ecuador President Rafael Correa Sunday said if Colombia carries out another cross border attack like that on a FARC camp in 2008, Ecuador’s response will be militarily.
When asked on local television, the President said he will not “allow...
We all know that walking and texting is a tough combination — but a Staten Island teen learned the hard way when she fell into an uncovered sewer manhole while trying to send a message.
Now, the family of Alexa Longueira, 15, intends to sue.
The...
It has been touted as a successful treatment for everything from insomnia and depression to Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis. Now supporters of legalised marijuana are making perhaps their most extravagant claim yet: that the drug can...
Police have charged four people in connection with an alleged scheme to dig up graves at a Chicago cemetery in order to resell the plots.
Bones from more than 100 bodies were discovered in mass graves at the city’s Burr Oak Cemetery.
The...
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