The “Mayor Salvador”, head of the FARP, an armed organization split the Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR), criticized Calderon”s policy in combating the drug trade for lack of strategy and tactics, in an interview released today by the Daily News the province of Oaxaca and echoed by the Ansa news agency. “A failed state [...]

“On Monday I plan to talk very seriously with fellow Lugo on what is happening on the border,” said Bush, who admitted the possibility of reviewing the granting of refuge to three members of the Paraguayan People”s Army (EPP), questioned by the Assumption government. Concerns for the safety of the Paraguayan-Brazilian border increased [...]

The broadcaster ABC News aired videotape Monday in the Nigerian Abdulmutallab made an apparent declaration of martyrdom in Arabic and also shown holding a machine gun in a training camp in the desert.
ABC News said the video was produced by Al Qaeda in Yemen.
“We are reviewing all information, all evidence is [...]

BUDAPEST (Reuters) – The new Hungarian government will not accept orders from the IMF or the European Union when it renegotiated an agreement with creditors, while seeking support for cutting taxes and implementing a debt reduction plan, said on Monday elected prime minister. Viktor Orban, whose center-right Fidesz party won a two-thirds parliamentary [...]

Participation in the 15 electoral districts that were invited was different, with a massive turnout in some polling stations and less presence in others, but spokesmen said that process was conducted without incident and once proclaimed the query as a success. The call covered eight regions, with primaries in a circuit in the [...]

The Colombian Foreign Ministry acknowledged that the national flag boat, because talks with Managua, was actually off the coast of Honduras. Yesterday, the defense minister, Gabriel Silva, had criticized ” the detention of the vessel in the Caribbean Sea undetermined zones “, but after analyzing satellite, a statement said the ship with 23 [...]

On Wall Street, stock prices rose after a positive report on new home sales offset the mixed corporate earnings reports. The market was cautious for much of the day after the announcement of Greece. Sales of new homes surged 27% in March, rebounding from a record low in February, the Commerce [...]

LONDON (Reuters) – The investigation of a link between salmonella and HIV shows that the AIDS virus damages the immune system in ways that doctors did not know before, providing new avenues for vaccine development. Typically, salmonella causes fatal infections in the bloodstream of people with HIV, particularly in Africa. But although this [...]

Earlier, a local official told The Times-Picayune of New Orleans, Louisiana (south) that the 11 missing people had been rescued. Three others remain in critical condition after a alleged explosion in the semi-submersible Deepwater Horizon on Tuesday night (03h00 GMT on Wednesday), who threw fireballs into the night sky. The [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a law banning videos showing cruelty to animals, arguing that the rule violates the rights of freedom of expression.
The 8-1 decision the high court was a victory for proponents of free speech and a defeat for the federal government and groups like the Humane Society of [...]