BOGOTA, Colombia – Colombia’s government says it has never considered attacking Venezuela, saying Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is deceiving his people by claiming Bogota may have such designs. A statement Saturday by Colombia also denies an allegation by Chavez that a Colombian military helicopter encroached Venezuelan airspace for five minutes. Tensions have heightened since Colombia [...]
MEXICO CITY – Federal police rescued two kidnapped news cameramen in northern Mexico on Saturday, five days after they were seized by drug traffickers in a bid to get their employers to broadcast cartel messages. Local journalists in Mexico have long been under siege from drug traffickers, but Monday’s kidnapping of journalists with national television [...]
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – As the U.S. military prepares for the first war crimes trial under President Barack Obama, its most high-profile case against the planners of the Sept. 11 attacks is stuck in political and legal limbo. Canadian prisoner Omar Khadr, accused of killing an American soldier during a raid on an al-Qaida [...]
PANAMA CITY – A jailed U.S. man has admitted killing five other Americans so he could take over their businesses and other properties in a Panamanian resort area, a government prosecutor said Saturday. The man’s wife refused to talk with investigators and asked for legal assistance from the U.S. Embassy, the official said. The embassy [...]
SAO PAULO – Two years back, Dimas Aliprandi and Elton Plaster didn’t know of each other’s existence. Then they learned they had been accidentally switched at birth more than 20 years ago. The discovery didn’t bring bitterness or recrimination. Rather, it led to the creation of a bigger family. Today, the two 25-year-olds are living [...]
Prof. Gilbert Achcar is a renowned Lebanese academician, writer, socialist and anti-war activist. He left Lebanon in 1983 and taught international relations and politics at the University of Paris VII for several years. Since 2007, Achcar has been Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the [...]
Invasion of privacy in the Internet age. Expanding the reach of law enforcement to snoop on e-mail traffic or on Web surfing. Those are among the criticisms being aimed at the FBI as it tries to update a key surveillance law. With its proposed amendment, is the Obama administration merely clarifying a statute or expanding [...]
Is spending your life with just one person is either the ultimate love story or something akin to death itself? Celebrating long-time marriages, it seems, goes against the natural order, writes Tim Elliott. On May 13, Herbert and Zelmyra Fisher, the world’s longest-married living couple, celebrated their 85th wedding anniversary. Herbert, who is 104, and [...]
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