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A bodyguard for the mayor of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, was shot and killed in an exchange with Mexican federal police, a federal police spokesman said late Tuesday.
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A “major gunbattle” between drug traffickers and Mexican federal police broke out Saturday evening in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, just 30 yards from the U.S. border at El Paso, Texas, causing U.S. authorities to cordon off a section of the city, according to a U.S. Border Patrol spokesman.
A massive ice island four times the size of Manhattan that broke off the Petermann Glacier early last month has split in two.
Paraguay’s cancer-stricken president is “lucid, “perfectly fine” and will not require surgery at this point, his doctor said Sunday.
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Mexican marines have captured an alleged top leader of the Beltran Leyva cartel, handing authorities a major victory in their fight against powerful drug organizations, the government said Sunday.
Marijuana cultivation in Mexico increased 35 percent in 2008 and continues to grow, even as authorities there push forward with a large offensive against drug cartels that smuggle the product into the United States, according to a State Department report released this week.
Ousted Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya will be granted safe passage to the Dominican Republic as a guest, resolving a diplomatic impasse that kept him trapped in Honduras, Dominican Republic President Leonel Fernandez told CNN Wednesday.
Castaway, turned Cuban media icon, Elian Gonzalez thanked “the American public for helping him return to his father in Cuba.”
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez denied an allegation that his government helped train Basque separatists trying to create an independent state.
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