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miércoles, 30 de noviembre de 2011
Man gets 12-year sentence for ramming Border Patrol vehicle
Man gets 12-year sentence for ramming Border Patrol vehicle: McALLEN — A judge sent a Mexican national to prison after he rammed a Border Patrol vehicle during a high speed chase. US District Judge Randy Crane sentenced Martin Gonzalez Ramirez, 40, to 12 years in federal prison after a May 25 chase near Rio ...
Mexican trucker gets 16 years for drug tunnels
Mexican trucker gets 16 years for drug tunnels
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Mexican trucker has been sentenced to nearly 16 years in prison for his role in two major drug tunnels along the US-Mexico border. Daniel Navarro apologized to his family at his sentencing Monday in San Diego. ...
UN mobilizes civil society for Rio's environment summit
UN mobilizes civil society for Rio's environment summit
RIO DE JANEIRO — The United Nations on Monday launched a campaign
to mobilize civil society ahead of next year's Rio environment
conference which Brazil will chair. Scheduled 20 years after the 1992
Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Rio+20 will be held ...
Cuba working on anti-cancer treatment using scorpion venom
Cuba working on anti-cancer treatment using scorpion venom
Havana: Cuba is working on four research projects on anti-cancer
treatments using the venom of a type of scorpion that is endemic to the
island, government officials announced Tuesday. One of those projects,
which is being undertaken by the Cuban firm ...
Pope lauds global campaign to scrap death penalty
Pope lauds global campaign to scrap death penalty
'I express my hope that your deliberations will encourage the political
and legislative initiatives being promoted in a growing number of
countries to eliminate the death penalty,' Benedict said during his weekly public audience. ...
Appeals court set to hear Ky. death penalty case
Appeals court set to hear Ky. death penalty case: (AP) - A federal appeals court will hear arguments over whether a judge made the correct decision in throwing out the death sentence of a western Kentucky man who pleaded guilty to killing an honor student in 1997. The US 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ...
Death Penalty Opponents Must Also Fight Racism in US Criminal Justice System
Death Penalty Opponents Must Also Fight Racism in US Criminal Justice System:
| The controversial September execution of Troy Davis in Georgia raised the profile of the death penalty in the US and the fight to abolish it. Davis was executed after spending 20 years on death row for the killing of an off-duty police officer, ... |  Between The Lines |
34 Accused in Puerto Rico Prescription Drug Ring
34 Accused in Puerto Rico Prescription Drug Ring: BY DANICA COTO AP SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Federal agents have arrested 34 people including doctors and pharmacy owners accused of running a $1 million prescription drug ring that authorities say has helped fuel a record number of killings this year. ...
Latin American poverty levels fall to lowest in two decades UN ...
Latin American poverty levels fall to lowest in two decades UN ...: Poverty rates in Latin America have dropped to their lowest levels in 20 years, according to a new United Nations report which highlights public spending ...
Not Everyone on Board with Mesoamerica Development Plan
Not Everyone on Board with Mesoamerica Development Plan: In 2001 the leaders of the seven countries of Central America - Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama – and Mexico held a summit in the southern Mexican city of Tuxtla to adopt the PPP under a "mechanism for ...
What Happens When the World's Poorest People Volunteer?
What Happens When the World's Poorest People Volunteer?: It's early November, and I'm sitting in the vast auditorium at UniNorte University in Barranquilla, Colombia, listening to Accion Social present on Colombia's extreme poor at the International Association for Volunteer Empowerment (IAVE)'s World Youth ...
Chevron Says Brazil Overreacts in Spill Response
Chevron Says Brazil Overreacts in Spill Response: In 2006, Brazil discovered massive, but extremely deep, oil deposits off Rio de Janeiro. Its leaders promised nothing less than to use oil to eradicate poverty and lift Brazil into the first world. The plan is for state-controlled Petroleo Brasileiro ...
Sandoval unsure of plans in Venezuela
Sandoval unsure of plans in Venezuela
Pablo Sandoval may only choose to participate in a home run derby in Venezuela instead of 7-10 games in his home country. Pablo Sandoval's plans to play in his home country of Venezuela are not finalized, according to Giants vice president of baseball ...
Trade Secretary, grocery store owners agree on $100 Christmas basket
Trade Secretary, grocery store owners agree on $100 Christmas basket
Domestic Trade Secretary Guillermo Moreno spoke to several grocery store owners of Buenos Aires
province to decide which products will be included in the 100 pesos
Christmas basket. “I just finished talking with Moreno, because we have a
good ...
Poverty Falls Across Latin America, Except in Mexico and Honduras
Poverty Falls Across Latin America, Except in Mexico and Honduras
Five countries in Latin America made significant improvements in reducing poverty rates; Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, Uruguay and Colombia. All saw drops of between 1.4 to 3.5 points in their poverty rates, according to the report. In regards to Mexico, ...
Cuba launches for-profit medical company
Cuba launches for-profit medical company:
| In a sign of change for Cuba's healthcare sector, a new for-profit medical services company bowed before an international business audience at the International Havana Fair earlier this month. Empresa Comercializadora de Servicios Médicos de Cuba SA, ... |  Cuba Standard.com |
Pro-LGBT Republican endorses Romney
Pro-LGBT Republican endorses Romney:
| All three were also designated as Romney's foreign policy advisers and made part of his Latin American Working Group. The three Floridians are Cuban-Americans and come from a state with a large population of people of Cuban descent. ... |  Washington Blade |
AIDS: Still a Gay Disease in America
AIDS: Still a Gay Disease in America: Outside the United States, sex between men accounts for as much as 25 percent of all HIV infections in parts of Latin America, with rates nearly as high in Asia, and not as high in Africa where HIV much more strongly affects heterosexuals. ...
Greater broadband use touted as key to South American development
Greater broadband use touted as key to South American development
Broadband network expansion in Latin America is linked to issues of chronic poverty
issues, patchy development and lack of resources. But this year's
experience of telecommunications playing a key role in the Arab Spring
in the Middle East and Africa ...
Re-Counting Poverty
Re-Counting Poverty: She finds the largest increases in poverty rates in Alabama (up 3.76 percentage points from the official measure), Florida (3.11), Colorado (2.85), Tennessee (2.67) Georgia (2.53) and Nebraska (2.27). States with lower poverty rates under the new ...
Number of Brazilian teens in extreme poverty is up
Number of Brazilian teens in extreme poverty is up: RIO DE JANEIRO - A new UNICEF report says the number of teenagers in extreme poverty has gone up in Brazil, despite the country's sustained economic growth. The report by the United Nations agency released Wednesday shows that 7.9 million Brazilians ...
Poverty levels in Latin America at lowest in 20 years-UN
Poverty levels in Latin America at lowest in 20 years-UN: By Anastasia Moloney BOGOTA (AlertNet) - The numbers of people living in poverty and extreme poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean are at their lowest in 20 years, according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the ...
Interethnic marriage between African- and Native-Americans produced many children
Interethnic marriage between African- and Native-Americans produced many children
American Indians with African ancestry outdid 'full bloods' in
reproductive terms in the early 1900s, despite the odds being against
them, according to a new study by Michael Logan from the University of
Tennessee in the US. ...
Cuba Denounces USA for Preventing Actions Against Israel
Cuba Denounces USA for Preventing Actions Against Israel: 30 de noviembre de 2011, 11:35United Nations, Nov 30 (Prensa Latina) Cuba on Wednesday denounced the United States and other western countries for preventing the Security Council from condemning Israel for its illegal actions and crimes against the ...
Mexican National Gets 12 Years for Drug Trafficking and Assaulting Federal Officer
Mexican National Gets 12 Years for Drug Trafficking and Assaulting Federal Officer
MCALLEN, TX—A 40‐year‐old Mexican national convicted of drug
trafficking and for assaulting a federal agent during a high speed chase
has been sentenced to 144 months in prison, United states Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. ...
martes, 29 de noviembre de 2011
In climate talks West would redefine rich and poor
In climate talks West would redefine rich and poor: It's an old debate that has been intensifying with the rapid growth of economies like those of China, India and some in Latin America and the wealth as well as high carbon emissions they generate. The division of the globe into two unequal parts was ...
Winehouse dress fetches over $67100 at auction
Winehouse dress fetches over $67100 at auction: Kerry Taylor Auctions says the polka-dot chiffon dress, designed in 2006, was purchased by Musea de la Moda - a fashion museum in Santiago, Chile - for 43200 pounds. It said the dress's designer, Disaya, agreed to donate proceeds from the sale to a ...
Trial begins in Chile for 6 accused of setting off bombs outside banks, other ...
Trial begins in Chile for 6 accused of setting off bombs outside banks, other ...
SANTIAGO, Chile — A trial has begun in Chile for six
people accused of setting off small bombs outside various buildings. If
convicted, the six could face sentences of 10 to 15 years in prison.
Chilean authorities allege the group was made up of ...
Homemade Bomb Explodes in Santiago De Chile
Homemade Bomb Explodes in Santiago De Chile
A homemade bomb exploded Monday outside the military prosecutor's office in Santiago, but no injuries or damage were reported, Chile's Carabineros militarized police force told Efe. No one has claimed responsibility for the bombing, which occurred at ...
Significant growth in Iowa's Native American population
Significant growth in Iowa's Native American population: However, nearly one-in-five of the Native Americans in Iowa are part of the Sioux Nation and 20 percent of the Native Americans in Iowa live in the Sioux City area. The Census found members of the Cherokee, Chippewa, Winnebago and ...
Poverty dominates many US school districts-Census
Poverty dominates many US school districts-Census: Counties with poverty rates significantly above the national average for school-age children were found Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, ...
Poverty is declining in Latin America
Poverty is declining in Latin America: (ELMER MARTINEZ/AFP/Getty Images) Poverty in Latin America is at its lowest level in 20 years. According to the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Carribean, the poverty rate dropped by 17 percentage points — from 48 percent to 31 percent. ...
Chilean judge charges ex-US military officer
Chilean judge charges ex-US military officer:
| SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) – A Chilean judge investigating abuses during the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet has charged a former US military officer in the 1973 killing of two Americans and is seeking his extradition, court officials said Tuesday. ... |  USA Today |
Venezuela: agreements with Colombia are to strengthen production
Venezuela: agreements with Colombia are to strengthen production: Venezuela's Minister of Industry Ricardo Menéndez said that the agreements reached between the Venezuelan and the Colombian governments are aimed at strengthening "domestic production activity." Among the most significant agreements, ...
Poverty dominates many school districts: Census
Poverty dominates many school districts: Census: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nearly half of all children in America live in school districts with high levels of poverty, according to US Census data released on Tuesday that pointed to financial traps many public schools are caught in. ...
Venezuela, Colombia leaders discuss oil pipeline
Venezuela, Colombia leaders discuss oil pipeline
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The presidents of Venezuela and Colombia said Monday that they plan to boost trade and are looking to build a pipeline to carry Venezuelan oil to Colombia's Pacific coast. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said the plan ...
Study: Fewer Children In US Lack Health Insurance
Study: Fewer Children In US Lack Health Insurance: By Kelli Kennedy, AP MIAMI (AP) — Even with more children living in poverty because of the rough ... Now a child can remain until age 1, Berglin said. ...
Colombia vows to keep up search for FARC hostages
Colombia vows to keep up search for FARC hostages: Better intelligence and mobility has given Colombian forces the ability to deal heavy blows to guerrillas. The major advances Colombia has made on security, however, mask deep-seated problems from land rights and rural poverty to government corruption ...
Eye doctor works with students on international aid
Eye doctor works with students on international aid
Today, returning from Nicaragua, Casper shares stories and insight that bring ... in Wilmington to treating patients in these below-poverty level countries? ...
Significant growth in Iowa's Native American population
Significant growth in Iowa's Native American population: Census-takers found just over 11000 Native Americans in Iowa. Just over a thousand were living in the Meskwaki Settlement near Tama, and the Census found 7.5 percent of the population in Tama County is Native American. However, nearly one-in-five of ...
Fort Benning to honor memory of Native American killed in Iraq
Fort Benning to honor memory of Native American killed in Iraq: Piestewa, 23, was the first Native American woman in history to die in combat while serving in the US military and the first woman killed in 2003 invasion of Iraq. A member of the Hopi tribe, she was a native of Tuba City, Az. During a 10 am ...
Mexican peace activist gunned down
Mexican peace activist gunned down: According to the Mexico City daily Reforma, however, the authorities failed to mention that he was released from prison after being absolved. The Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity called on Sonoran authorities to investigate the killings ...
134 Inmates Escape From Prisons in Bahia, Brazil
134 Inmates Escape From Prisons in Bahia, Brazil: More than 130 inmates escaped in two mass jailbreaks from separate facilities in Brazil over the last three days.
More than 49000 Venezuelans Treated in Cuba
More than 49000 Venezuelans Treated in Cuba: 29 de noviembre de 2011, 10:19Caracas, Nov 29 (Prensa Latina) More than 49, 000 Venezuelan have been treated in Cuba for different pathologies for the past 11 years, said on Tuesday Rogelio Polanco, Ambassador of Cuba in Venezuela. ...
Chile's artists protest cultural funding cuts - Santiago Times
Chile's artists protest cultural funding cuts - Santiago Times: Chile's artists protest cultural funding cuts. Criticize government proposal to decrease arts and music funding in schools.
The Money the US Uses for Terrorist Actions against Cuba
The Money the US Uses for Terrorist Actions against Cuba: However, while several sectors make cuts, the evidence on how many initiatives to favour subversion against the Cuban people and leaders are financed is every time greater, in a place like the US, in which demonstrations are daily multiplying against ...
Child Poverty Rises in 96 of Top 100 School Districts Since 2007
Child Poverty Rises in 96 of Top 100 School Districts Since 2007: The government sets the poverty level at $22113 for a four-person household that includes two people under 18. Lee County, Florida, reported the greatest increase in poor students during the recession. The proportion of poor children in the district, ...
US Assistance Makes a World of Difference for Children
US Assistance Makes a World of Difference for Children: Humanitarian groups know that millions of Americans are struggling financially. Here at home in the US, Save the Children is working every day to battle the effects of poverty on children in poor rural areas across the country. The challenges are clear ...
Growing Hispanic population driving new community trends
Growing Hispanic population driving new community trends:
| The report found that the percentage of Hispanics living in poverty should .... studio in the building for her mother, who lived in the Dominican Republic. ... | Real Estate Weekly |
Volunteer looks at ways to assist those at poverty level
Volunteer looks at ways to assist those at poverty level: After earning her bachelor's degree for interdisciplinary studies from University of Central Florida, Buffa joined the AmeriCorps VISTA program as the beginning of potential career in working for non profit organizations. “It's something that I've ...
lunes, 28 de noviembre de 2011
Oregon governor rightly suspends death penalty
Oregon governor rightly suspends death penalty: Doing so would follow a growing trend in death penalty abolition in the US Illinois abolished the death penalty in that state earlier this year, joining 15 other states and the District of Columbia which had previously halted the practice. ...
A governor's brave stand against the death penalty
A governor's brave stand against the death penalty
Three states have abandoned the death penalty since 2007. The death penalty against mentally retarded people and young people under 18 has been banned by the US Supreme Court. But 34 states (counting Oregon) still have the death penalty. ...
Cuban Vaccine against Cancer Highlighted in India
Cuban Vaccine against Cancer Highlighted in India: The drug was developed after 15 years of research and successful administration to more than 1000 Cuban patients, according to IANS. The product is already registered in Peru and is in the process of registration in Colombia, Brazil, Paraguay, Ecuador, ...
Justice is too important to be left solely to the lawyers
Justice is too important to be left solely to the lawyers: ... towards the end of the 20th century as a number of states in Latin America and Africa in particular began to emerge from protracted periods of authoritarian rule which involved mass killings, disappearances, torture and disdain for human rights. ...
American Indian children in Minnesota disproportionately placed in foster care
American Indian children in Minnesota disproportionately placed in foster care
The study found that across the nation, children of color — especially African American and Native American
children — are entering into foster care at higher proportions than the
general population. The study uses the “disproportionality index”, ...
Making most of scarcer aid will be vital: World Bank
Making most of scarcer aid will be vital: World Bank: She pointed at social programs that target the poor in Brazil and Mexico that have radically reduced poverty and been replicated in Peru and even in New York City. But Indrawati said the new donors, including private sector-led initiatives to fight ...
Italy, Spain haven't asked IMF for help: Lagarde
Italy, Spain haven't asked IMF for help: Lagarde: Humala, who took office in July, wants to cut the poverty rate to 20 percent from 30 percent by the time he leaves office in 2016. Peru's economy was a basket case in the 1980s but growth has since surged, allowing the country to build up record ...
Rural Peru gets connected
Rural Peru gets connected
They were meeting in Lima to announce the completion of an aid programme
that is taking renewable energy and the internet to 130 rural
communities in Peru. With funding from the EU, the Euro-Solar programme is being rolled out across the eight poorest ...
Italy, Spain haven't asked IMF for help: Lagarde
Italy, Spain haven't asked IMF for help: Lagarde: Lagarde is visiting fast-growing Peru and Latin American heavyweights Brazil and Mexico this week to drum up support for more global cooperation. Analysts say the IMF may be looking to emerging markets to help increase the size of its credit lines as ...
TV review: Desperate Scousewives; The British Woman on Death Row
TV review: Desperate Scousewives; The British Woman on Death Row: If the US is going to insist on killing people, it could at least make sure it does so with the due process of law. It seems Carty's last hope of getting her sentence overturned is if the British public gets behind her and gives the US a hard time. ...
Peru's firefighters struggle as economy booms
Peru's firefighters struggle as economy booms: About a third of Peruvians live in poverty, down from 48 percent in 2006, according to government statistics. But the rate is far higher in the countryside, and roughly 10 percent of Peruvians live in extreme poverty, defined as a household living on ...
Why are parts of Brazil still in poverty
Why are parts of Brazil still in poverty: What are the main causes of poverty in Brazil. Remnants of the Import Substitution Industrailisation era from the 1950's onwards have contributed greatly ...
LGBT Resource Center and Native American House to host film screening
LGBT Resource Center and Native American House to host film screening
The Native American House and LGBT Resource Center are teaming up
tonight to sponsor a screening of the film “Two Spirits”. The event
will take place at 6 pm at 180 Bevier Hall. Following the screening,
there will be a discussion about with film with ...
Ecuadoran journalist sentenced to prison
Ecuadoran journalist sentenced to prison: In December 2009, the Costa Rican Supreme Court eliminated prison terms for criminal defamation. One month earlier, in November 2009, the Argentine Congress repealed criminal defamation provisions in the penal code. And in April 2009, Brazil's Supreme ...
The poor and the informal sector
The poor and the informal sector: The opposite of poverty is not wealth - it is justice. The objective is to create a more just society, not necessarily a wealthier one. And the great question is how do we do this?"- Leonardo Boff, Franciscan Theologian, Brazil. ...
Cubans Honor Medical Students Murdered 140 Years Ago
Cubans Honor Medical Students Murdered 140 Years Ago: The students marched from the historic University of Havana down on the popular San Lazaro Street and up to the mausoleum of the eight medical students, where wreaths were laid, including those sent by Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro and President ...
Now, Nine Baseball Teams in Western Cuban Region
Now, Nine Baseball Teams in Western Cuban Region
The 51st Cuban National Baseball Series has just begun, now with
nine teams for the first time in the western region as the Metropolitans
team was saved from disappearing though many people thought otherwise.
In view that this baseball party demanded ...
Cuban government to contract with private sector
Cuban government to contract with private sector: By Marc Frank HAVANA (Reuters) - The Cuban government will begin contracting out some services to the private sector next year in a break from the state-dominated past aimed at helping small business develop, government insiders said on Monday. ...
BA City toll rates, taxi fares to climb this week
BA City toll rates, taxi fares to climb this week: Taxi cabs fares will climb 26 percent as from Tuesday while the Buenos Aires City toll rates will increase 30 percent as from Thursday. The meter will clock on at 7.30 pesos, and it will rise from 58 to 73 cents the minimum fare every 200 metres or per ...
Salesians outraged at conviction of Mexican priest
Salesians outraged at conviction of Mexican priest: Leaders of the Salesian Congregation in Rome condemned the sentencing of a Mexican Salesian priest to 33 years in prison for allegedly raping and killing a 16 year-old girl. Salesian leaders say Father Jose Carlos Contreras Rodriguez was accused of ...
Bahrain postpones protesters' death penalty appeal
Bahrain postpones protesters' death penalty appeal:
| Hundreds of people have been arrested, tried in the security court or purged from jobs on the strategic island nation, which is home to the US Navy's 5th Fleet. As part of reforms after the independent report, Bahrain's interior minister, Lt. Gen. ... |  USA Today |
Drug war sends emotionally troubled kids to Texas
Drug war sends emotionally troubled kids to Texas: Many of the teens came to the US seeking refuge from Mexico's drug war, which made violence a constant companion since childhood. "I've been through all three stages: impact, recoil, reorganization of my life," 17-year-old Alan Garcia told the class ...
Rampant Levels Of Poverty In Florida Force Families To Live In ...
Rampant Levels Of Poverty In Florida Force Families To Live In ...: In a country struggling with rampant unemployment and a disastrous foreclosure crisis, it is Florida that is today home to a third of America's homeless ...
134 Inmates Escape From Prisons in Bahia, Brazil
134 Inmates Escape From Prisons in Bahia, Brazil: They were reportedly led by Ronei Batista da Silva, considered by prison authorities to be amongst the most dangerous detainees. Overcrowding is a serious problem for Brazil's prison system. The facility in Barreiras, for example, was designed to hold ...
Two-Day Conference Will Focus on Curbing American Indian Obesity Rates
Two-Day Conference Will Focus on Curbing American Indian Obesity Rates: According to the Center for Disease Control, obesity rates in America have tripled in the past 30 years; one in every three children in the United States is obese and Native American citizens are 1.6 times as likely to be obese than other racial and ...
domingo, 27 de noviembre de 2011
2 Death Penalty Survivors get Married
2 Death Penalty Survivors get Married:
| Each was wrongly convicted, and sentenced to death, for crimes they did not commit. Sonia's husband was executed after the real perpetrator, who killed two police officers, confessed to the crime. US Courts should not be trusted with the Death Penalty ... |  OpEdNews |
Study finds Latinos contribute $23 billion to the region's economy ...
Study finds Latinos contribute $23 billion to the region's economy ...
By 2015, 1 in every 4 workers in the Chicago region will be Latino, but a lack of resources behind education and workforce development has left the group ...
Re-Distribute Oil Wealth To Fight Poverty: UN
Re-Distribute Oil Wealth To Fight Poverty: UN: She said studies in many countries including Latin America, for instance Brazil, show that countries that have implemented these programs have managed to alleviate poverty to a larger extent. “Studies show that in other countries where this is done 50 ...
Makers and shakers in climate talks
Makers and shakers in climate talks: She was involved in both the UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol negotiations and is a prime promoter of Latin America's active participation in the climate convention. Her background should allow her to foster trust between countries and to push for an ...
Transgender violence: keeping the pressure on
Transgender violence: keeping the pressure on: With international funders of the HIV response retreating from Latin America ( most ... Firstly, on 3 November the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights ...
Editorial: Days Focus Spotlight On Ending Abuse
Editorial: Days Focus Spotlight On Ending Abuse: Because of the easy accessibility of the weapon, acid violence against women - and their children - is commonplace in tumultuous corners of the world, some as close as Latin America. In our own country, attacks against women can take the form of ...
Violence against women: Latin Americans demand action to counter crimes
Violence against women: Latin Americans demand action to counter crimes: Amnesty International (AI), in the 2011 State of the World's Human Rights report, says many victims of gender-based violence are girls under the age of 18, and pointed to Nicaragua as a nation where there is increasing evidence of widespread sexual ...
North American NGOs and Human Rights Experts Condemn ...
North American NGOs and Human Rights Experts Condemn ...: We stand behind the work of the Inter-American human rights system and the victims of gross human rights ... Latin America Working Group Education Fund ...
Criminalisation of domestic violence urged
Criminalisation of domestic violence urged: The International Day on Violence against Women was first declared on 1981 by the first Feminist Congress of Latin America and the Caribbean to commemorate the violent assassination of Mirabal sisters on November 25 in 1960 in Dominican Republic. ...
Man charged over Cuba Mall car fire in court
Man charged over Cuba Mall car fire in court: A man charged with setting a car alight in Cuba Mall has been remanded in custody until the end of the week. Christopher Charles Palenski, 40, unemployed, of Richmond Heights in Taupo, appeared in the Wellington District Court this morning in blue ...
Cuba claims the world's longest cigar
Cuba claims the world's longest cigar: Cuba can once again lay claim to producing the longest cigar in the world, according to the Guinness Book of Records. The honour went to Jose Castelar Cairo, who was awared the title at a ceremony in Havana. 'I am happy to receive a fifth prize from ...
Horror in La Plata: four women killed, suspect arrested
Horror in La Plata: four women killed, suspect arrested: Four women, among them an 11-year old girl, were found murdered this morning in an apartment in the neighborhood of La Loma, in the city of La Plata, Buenos Aires province. A 27-year old man, the only suspect in the case, has been arrested and is now ...
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