The Mexican army says that it has managed to rescue three children held by a criminal gang as a result of a raid.
Government officials say that the children were chained and locked up at a private residence in the city of Temixco, central Mexico. Inside the home, soldiers ...
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The US has thrown out comments from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez that questioned whether Washington DC might be responsible for the cancer of various Latin American leaders.
Victoria Nuland, a State Department spokeswoman, branded the comments both horrific and reprehensible, adding that they aren't even worthy of a response. Yesterday, ...
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Thailand has jailed an American citizen for at least two and a half years upon his admission of posting internet links to an outlawed biography of the country’s king, Bhumibol Adulyadej.
Mr Joe Gordon, a Colorado man that once sold used cars salesman but was born in Thailand, confessed to insulting ...
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American Samoa's national football team – ranked by Fifa as the worst team in the world – yesterday won its first ever game.
The US protectorate scraped a 2-1 victory over rivals Tonga after an alarming 30 straight defeats across almost two decades. Reporters said the Samoan players and their manager ...
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For the first ever time in history, non-whites make up the biggest majority of Brazil's population, according to preliminary results of last year’s census.
Out of around 191 million Brazilians, at least 91 million checked the box that identified themselves as white, with 82 million mixed race and just 15 ...
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A Ugandan man was today sentenced to at least 30 years in jail for the murder of the African country's leading rights activist for homosexuals, David Kato, in January.
Mr Sidney Nsubunga Enoch confessed in court that he bludgeoned Mr Kato with a hammer, although he alleged that he was ...
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An-ex Colombian beauty queen was jailed for almost seven years in Argentina after being found guilty of running a drug trafficking ring that operated on an international scale.
Angie Sanclemente Valencia, aged 31, had denied assisting her boyfriend in recruiting young women to traffic cocaine to Europe through Mexico. It ...
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In excess of 5,000 foreign criminals currently awaiting deportation still remain in Britain, an official report has insisted.
The amount of those who aren't deported or can't be deported when their jail sentence ends is increasing, according to John Vine, the UK Border Agency's independent inspector, who also said that the ...
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Libya's former leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was killed in Libya today after an assault on Sirte, his birthplace, officials say.
Although the circumstances of Gadaffi's death aren't yet clear, footage has emerged purporting to show him being captured alive then bundled on to the back of a truck. Those loyal to ...
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European banks might have to raise 200bn euros to boost capital reserves.
The proposal has been made by the EBA, the European Banking Authority, which wants banks to have funds in reserve to aid in protecting them from future shocks in the financial market.
The EBA, Europe's banking main industry regulator, wants ...
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