| Police nab alleged smuggler of Ecuadorean migrant
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AP - Authorities have detained an alleged smuggler of an Ecuadorean man who told police he survived a massacre of 72 fellow migrants in Mexico, the justice minister confirmed Sunday. |
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| With busted well dead, BP and partners face multiple probes
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 AFP - With a key piece of evidence raised from the depths of the Gulf of Mexico and BP's Macondo well ruled a threat no longer, the focus is shifting back to what went wrong and who is to blame.
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| BP hikes asset sale target after oil spill: report
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 AFP - Oil giant BP has increased to nearly 25 billion pounds the amount it wants to raise from an asset sale programme in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the Sunday Times newspaper reported.
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| BP Gulf well "secured," awaiting final kill: U.S.
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Reuters - BP Plc's ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well is secure with no threat of spewing crude again, the top U.S. official overseeing the spill response said |
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| Busted BP well no longer 'threat' to Gulf
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 AFP - The Macondo well, which spilled an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, has been secured and no longer constitutes "a threat," a senior US official said.
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| Guatemala landslides bury up to 100 people
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 Reuters - A massive landslide buried up to 100 people in Guatemala trying to dig out a bus caught in deep mud as torrential rains battered the country.
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| Mexican suspect in US consulate killings in Texas court
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 AFP - A Mexican suspect in the March drive-by shooting of a US consulate worker in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez appeared at a closed-door hearing in a Texas court, the San Antonio News said Saturday.
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| Ariz. governor says she was wrong about beheadings
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AP - A claim by Arizona's governor that rising violence along the U.S.-Mexico border has led to headless bodies turning up in the desert came back to haunt her during a stammering debate performance in which she failed to back it up. |
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| Judge orders Mexico drug lord 'La Barbie' held for 40 days
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 AFP - A Mexican federal judge has ordered 40 days of initial detention for Edgar Valdez, a notorious accused drug lord who police arrested this week, the attorney general said Saturday.
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| Mexican judge orders drug lord held 40 more days
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 Reuters - A Mexican judge ordered Edgar "La Barbie" Valdez, believed to be one of the country's top drug bosses, held for 40 more days of investigation, the federal prosecutor's office said on Saturday.
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| Judge orders alleged kingpin 'La Barbie' held
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 AP - A judge has ordered a U.S.-born suspected drug lord known as "La Barbie" held for 40 days pending an investigation into organized-crime and other possible charges, authorities announced Saturday.
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| Suspect in consulate deaths appears in Texas court
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AP - A man who told Mexican authorities he ordered the March killing of a U.S. Consulate worker in Mexico has been extradited to the U.S. and appeared in a federal court in Texas, the San Antonio Express-News reported. |
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