Survivors of mine disasters say hope, Kenny Rogers kept them going
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As the two Australian miners lay trapped in a space less than 5 feet square and 3,000 feet below the surface, they discovered common ground in American country singer Kenny Rogers.
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Teodoro “El Teo” Garcia Simental, one of Mexico’s most wanted drug traffickers, was arrested Tuesday, Mexican and U.S. authorities said.
The founder of a Mexican Catholic order sexually abused minor-age seminarians and fathered three children with two women, the religious sect has revealed.
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Drilling has begun as part of an effort to reach the 33 miners who have been trapped underground in Chile for more than three weeks, authorities said Tuesday.
Some gave thumbs-up, waved Chilean flags, and hugged their loved ones. One dropped to his knees and prayed, Another asked about his dog. One led the crowd in a cheer for Chile. And they were wheeled away on stretchers.
As one of the highest officials in the Mexican Catholic Church, Monsignor Victor Rene Rodriguez has been receiving the alarming reports from all over the nation.
The process of extracting 33 miners from a Chilean mine, where they have been trapped for more than two months, is going better than expected, the nation’s health minister told reporters Wednesday.
Honduran prosecutors issued arrest warrants for the country’s six top military commanders for abuse of power in connection with the coup that ousted President Jose Manuel Zelaya last year.
The toll climbed to more than 50 people killed in Monday’s ambush on a Mexican federal police convoy and an unrelated prison uprising, authorities said Tuesday.
A man suspected of conspiring with a terrorist network responsible for the deaths of five U.S. soldiers in Iraq will learn Friday if he will be granted bail by a Canadian court.
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