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Lelly Laurentus thought he was doing the right thing when he handed his two young children over to an American woman who promised to take them to a better place.
American tourists heading to Mexico’s Baja California state in the future can expect more police protection from a new task force, according to Mexican authorities.
Four Americans were killed in a small plane crash in northwestern Mexico, the president of the volunteer organization Flying Samaritans said Saturday.
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Suspected drug smugglers digging a tunnel across the Mexico-U.S. border hit a sewage line near Arizona, an official with Arizona’s Nogales Utility said Monday night.
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A former Miss Argentina died Sunday after complications arising from plastic surgery, the official Telam news agency said.
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Joran van der Sloot, the Dutch man once considered a suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway, is the suspect in the killing of a woman in Peru, Peruvian police officials said Wednesday.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said Friday that British military forces must be out of Afghanistan before the next general election, scheduled to be held in 2015.
The 33 men trapped deep in a mine in Chile since August 5 have begun to assume different roles to help them survive what could be a months-long effort to bring them to the surface from 2,300 feet below ground, rescue officials said Thursday.
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro appeared on the island’s state-run television for the second time in less than a week on Friday, using the forum to again blast U.S. foreign policy and warn against nuclear war in the Middle East.
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