CARACAS, Venezuela – A farmer who held repeated hunger strikes in a land dispute with Venezuela’s government has died in a military hospital where he had been taken against his will. For opponents of President Hugo Chavez, Franklin Brito’s emaciated figure became a symbol of government highhandedness and they joined the family Tuesday in accusing [...]
MEXICO CITY – A former Texas high school football player and petty street dealer who allegedly rose to become one of Mexico’s most savage assassins became the third major drug lord brought down by Mexico in less than a year, and could provide intelligence on even bigger kingpins. Edgar Valdez Villarreal, known as “the Barbie” [...]
ST. PAUL, Minn. – A former U.S. Army analyst who tried to board a flight to China with electronic files containing restricted Army documents poses a danger of the “gravest sense,” a prosecutor argued Tuesday in federal court. Liangtian Yang, 26, of Lawton, Okla., is charged in Oklahoma with one count of theft of government [...]
SAN JOSE MINE, Chile – The effort to save 33 men trapped deep in a Chilean mine is an unprecedented challenge, mining safety experts said Tuesday. It means months of drilling, then a harrowing three-hour trip in a cage up a narrow hole carved through solid rock. If all of that is successful, the freed [...]
HOWZ-E-MADAD, Afghanistan – As some 400 U.S. and Afghan soldiers gather to honor their first fallen comrade, mournful Muslim prayers mingle with the stutter of machine gun fire and the thud of exploding grenades just beyond their heavily fortified camp. This funeral ceremony will almost certainly be repeated, perhaps many times, as the combined force [...]