Archive: September 2010
A defiant Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa returned safely to the presidential palace late Thursday after spending hours held by police inside a hospital room outside Quito.
Penguins didn’t always come in black and white, paleontologists said Thursday, citing the discovery of a 36-million-year-old fossil of a bird that, in its day, waddled nearly 5 feet tall.
Christopher Winfield said he tried to raise the alarm about an alleged thrill-kill cult inside the U.S. military in Afghanistan but that his calls went to voice mail and his warnings were ignored.
Ecuador teetered on the verge of a government collapse Thursday, as national police took to the streets of Quito, the capital, and physically attacked the president over what police say was the cancellation of bonuses and promotions.
The Army sergeant accused of leading his men to kill innocent Afghan civilians kept a personal body count of skull tattoos and associated with white supremacists online, according to interviews conducted by military investigators.
Gilberto Angulos does not need to say a word to tell the tale of working 30 years in Chile’s mines. His broken body does all the talking for him.
A woman convicted of collaborating with the notorious Colombian guerrilla group FARC has been deported, U.S. immigration officials said Thursday.
Disturbances broke out Thursday on the streets of Quito, the capital of Ecuador, as national police protested the government’s cancellation of bonuses and promotions, images on the official Ecuador TV showed.
A landslide in southern Mexico left 12 dead and 14 injured, the state-run Notimex news agency reported, citing civil protection officials. Four people were also reported missing.
Mexico’s navy on Wednesday announced the arrests of 30 members of the Gulf drug cartel following several armed confrontations in the northern state of Tamaulipas.
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