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$1 million reward offered for fugitive LA ex-cop
Christopher Dorner is seen on a surveillance video at an Orange County hotel on January 28, 2013 in this still image released by the Irvine Police Department.
Amid a massive manhunt for the fugitive LA ex-cop suspected of having killed three people, authorities announced a reward of $1 million for information leading to his arrest.
“Hopefully, the reward will motivate people that may be involved...
Death toll from blast in Mexican oil company HQ hits 32
Soldiers, Federal policemen and firefighter remove debris, and look for victims of a blast at the headquarters of state-owned Mexican oil giant Pemex in Mexico City, February 1, 2013.
The death toll from a powerful explosion, which had hit the headquarters of Mexico’s state-run oil company Pemex in Mexico City, has risen to 32 from an earlier figure of 25.
According to a statement released by...
Organized crime kills 38 in Mexico
Organized crime has left 38 people killed in Mexico despite a promise by the newly-inaugurated president to reduce violence.
Mexican police announced on Tuesday that 22 bodies were found in the capital of Mexico City over the weekend and at least 16 bodies in the region of Toluca.
Many of the bodies in Toluca were dismembered and signs of torture were visible and some of them had notes beside them...
Digital Medicine 2.0 for monitoring and control of patients
Telemedicine has been widely used in Europe and countries like Chile, Mexico and Brazil… Given the advancement of the Internet, analysts and practitioners have described telemedicine as eHealth, a new way of giving treatment, consultations, medical education and health status monitoring remotely.
Telemedicine has evolved in recent years as health services at a distance. Doctors and hospital...
Mexicans protest Enrique Nieto’s swearing in as president
Mexican police hit by Molotov cocktails thrown by protesters showing their opposition to President Enrique Pena Nieto on December 1, 2012.
As Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto is worn in, thousands protest across the country, clashing with police and injuring at least five officers.
Protesters on Saturday threw Molotov cocktails and objects towards police officers, who were standing outside the...
Global warming to destroy several regions
A tourist spot in Mozambique
The World Bank has warned that due to global warming a number of coastal countries in the world such as Bangladesh and Mozambique are to disappear over the next century.
According to the report prepared by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and Climate Analytics, the World Bank warned climate change, which is causing global warming and sea level rise...
US Government Website For Immigrants: Come To America And Take Advantage Of Our Free Stuff
A website run by the federal government (“WelcomeToUSA.gov“) encourages new immigrants to the United States to apply for welfare benefits. This website is run by the Department of Homeland Security and it says that it “is the U.S. Government’s official web portal for new immigrants.” So your tax dollars were used to build and maintain a website that teaches immigrants how to come...
Guatemala Pacific Coast 7.5 Quake Kills 52
A car remains under the ruins of a collapsed house in San Marcos, 240 km of Guatemala City, November 7, 2012.
The death toll of an earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale that hit Guatemala’s Pacific Coast has climbed to 52 with about 20 still missing.
Media reports on Thursday quoted emergency services on the casualties, saying that almost a third of the dead are children and at least 150...
Mexico state slipped under Zetas cartel control
Arrested members of Mexico’s Zetas drug cartel are presented to the press.
The brutal Zetas drug cartel now has full control over Mexico’s northeastern province of Coahuila, and dominates all aspects of local criminal businesses.
The Zetas has taken advantage of rampant political corruption, an intimidated and silent public as well as a complicit and profiting segment of the business elite to aggressively...
Mexico Bans Large Cash Transactions
Outgoing Mexican President Felipe Calderon has signed into law a ban on large cash transactions. The ban will take effect in about 90 days and it is part of a broader effort to control monetary flows within the country. Under the law, a Specialized Unit in Financial Analysis operating within the Attorney General’s Office will be created to investigate financial operations “that are related...
Israeli Radar Technology to be Used at U.S.-Mexico Border
An Israeli company, Elta, will install a radar system to monitor the U.S.-Mexico border for illegal immigration and drug smuggling.
Elta’s technology can identify potential human infiltrators from as far as 13 miles away and vehicles from 26 miles out. The U.S.-Israel agreement opens up a potential market “worth hundreds of millions of dollars” to Elta, according to IsraelDefense.com.
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HSBC exposed: Drug money banking, terror dealings
One of the biggest high street banks, London based HSBC, have been caught up in funding terrorism and money laundering for the Mexican drug cartels.
HSBC’s activities in Saudi Arabia were brought into question in a report, which specifically refers to banking with Al Rajhi Bank.
The investigation claims the Saudi bank has links to financing terrorism, based on evidence gathered after the September...
Mexico declares emergency over new bird flu outbreak
The Mexican government has declared a national animal health emergency in the wake of a new outbreak of bird flu that has affected some 1.7 million fowl, leaving around 870,000 dead.
“We have activated a national animal health emergency with the goal of diagnosing, preventing, controlling and eradicating the Type A, sub-type H7N3 bird flu virus,” the country’s agriculture ministry said.
The...
Supreme Court upholds Arizona immigration law
The US Supreme Court finally ruled on the constitutionality of Arizona’s controversial immigration law Monday, striking down three provisions of the legislation while upholding the scandalous “show me your papers” section.
The Court has struck down most of Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration legislation, which was enacted two years earlier.
The high court ruled that Arizona’s policy of imprisoning...
Obama Push For World War III Shocks Putin
A highly disturbing report prepared by the Foreign Ministry on yesterdays nearly 3 ½ hour meeting between President’s Putin and Obama at the G-20 Summit in Mexico states that Russia’s leader was “shocked” after he told the US leader that America’s Middle East policies were bringing the world to brink of total war to which Obama replied… “I don’t care, maybe that’s what we all...