Saturday 19th May, 2012
First Defendant in Sinha Murder Trial Will Serve No Jail Time
One of the five teens charged with the 2010 fatal attack of a New Jersey professor will serve no jail time.Steven Contreras, 20, was cleared May 7 of six of the 10 charges against him in the June 25 ...
ACLU Sues ICE for Shackling Immigrants in Court
SAN FRANCISCO--Detainees file into San Francisco immigration court linked together like a "chain-gang," bound at their wrists, waists and ankles. A metal chain or seatbelt-style restraint ...
Silicon Valley Suicide Reverberates in Chinese Blogosphere
The suicide of a successful Chinese-American software engineer at Paypal has prompted some Chinese students to reconsider whether they should live and work in California’s Silicon ...
General MacArthur and the Fall of Bataan and Corregidor
New America MediaSeventy years ago, one of the greatest sacrifices of World War II was made by Filipino and American soldiers at Bataan and Corregidor. After a fierce and bitter four-month battle, Bataan fell on ...
New Orleans Activist Rejects NY Times Depiction of Ninth Ward
New America MediaNEW ORLEANS-The New York Times Magazine recently ran a story on my home, the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, a place one of the most powerful newspapers in the world insensitively dubbed a ...
Cannes 2012: Latin American Film Sector Is on the Rise
Hollywood ReporterIncreasing box office numbers, hot local filmmakers and a strong showing in Cannes this year offer proof that the region's once struggling production industry is ...
Quake of 6.2 magnitude hits offshore Antofagasta, Chile: USGS
SINAWASHINGTON, May 19 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake of 6.2 magnitude jolted offshore Antofagasta, Chile on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said. The epicenter, with a depth of 34.70 km, was ...
Drought in northeastern Brazil affects harvest, tourism
SINARIO DE JANEIRO, May 18 (Xinhua) -- The drought that has beenaffecting Brazil's northeastern state Bahiain for the past monthscan damage up to 40 percent of the agricultural production in ...
Soldiers defy government and march in Haiti
Breaking News.ieHundreds of former and would-be soldiers in Haiti refused government orders to disband and marched through the capital, many in mismatched uniforms. A United Nations spokesman said 40 to 50 of them ...
Dalai Lama Gives 15 Million to Indian Charity
New America MediaThe Dalai Lama, recipient of the 2012 Templeton Prize, announced May 14 at the awards ceremony at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, that he would give $1.5 million of his prize money to Save the ...
U.S. can help end Mexico’s drug war
Las Vegas SunSaturday, May 19, 2012 | 2:01 a.m. Our neighbor to the south has been fighting an awful war. The Mexican drug war has taken its toll on a country whose tourism base has largely evaporated because ...
Eight 'cartel members' detained in Mexico
Breaking News.ieThe Mexican army has detained eight suspected members of the Gulf cartel and seized drugs, guns and hand grenades during investigations into the May 13 discovery of 49 dismembered bodies on a road ...
Feds Punt on Leadership Over Fracking Rules Experts Say
New America MediaWestern Energy Alliance , said the BLM regulations will "add more delays and cost onto an already excessively bureaucratic federal process."At least nine states have adopted new fracking ...
Venezuela's Chavez says he is 'no longer a hard-charging horse' after cancer treatment
New York PostCARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Friday he was making a "progressive recovery" from a course of radiation therapy he underwent earlier this month in Cuba, but ...
Repsol: Exploratory oil well off Cuba comes up dry
MENAFN(MENAFN - Saudi Press Agency) Spanish oil company Repsol said an exploratory well it drilled off Cuba is unsuccessful and will be abandoned, according to AP.Spokesman Kristian Rix said the company ...
Royal Caribbean to pull back from Europe
UPIThe Royal Caribbean cruise line said trips in Europe would be curtailed in 2013 as demand for tickets has been slack. USA Today reported Friday that the cruise line said it is sending nine ships to ...
4th high-ranking Mexican army officer detained
Gadsden TimesMexico's army announced Friday that it had detained a fourth high-ranking officer during a civilian investigation into alleged military links to drug cartels. Three generals were previously ...
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