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Texas Flouting the World Court?
If Texas Governor Rick Perry (pictured) does not act to halt Jose Medellin's execution immediately, America will show it does not care to follow the U.S. committments that serve to protect our own...Mexican executed after appeal denied in Texas
" Mexican national Jose Ernesto Medellin, whose death penalty conviction in the rape and murder of two teen girls sparked international controversy, was put to death in Texas on Tuesday night, prison officials...
State of Texas Defies World Court: Executes Mexican National
The United States has failed to inform 51 Mexican citizens sentenced to die in United States' jails of their right to consular assistance, and Texas defied the World Court by executing Jose Medellin at 9:57 p.m. CDT... Betancourt 'rescued in Colombia'
Miss Ingrid Betancourt is finally rescued with three other American after 6 years in the hands of the Farc rebel group. " The three Americans rescued were defence department contract workers captured after their light aircraft crashed in the Colombian jungle in...Colombian mudslide death roll rises to 19
The landslide that buried a poor hillside neighbourhood on Saturday in the Colombian city of Medellin has killed 19 people. Eight more people are missing."The industrial city has been pounded by seasonal rains along with much of the rest of the Andean country. The slide... OAS at 60: Is it mature enough to solve regional challenges?
Caracas, Venezuela, 1 June, 2008. Today, Organization of American States (OAS) started its XXXVIII General Assembly in Medellin, Colombia, devoted to youth and democratic values. It has certainly been a... Colombia landslide kills at least 6, more missing
One local Newspaper "La Opinion" Stated rainfall during the early hours of this Saturday in the Department of
Antioquia claimed new victims when an avalanche buried 20
homes and left dead at least six people."BOGOTA
(Reuters) - Colombian emergency workers and residents... High Court Tells Texas to Ignore Bush
"WASHINGTON (AP) - Texas can ignore President Bush and an international court in refusing to reopen the case of a Mexican on death row for rape and murder, the Supreme Court said Tuesday.The court said Bush exceeded his authority when he tried to intervene on behalf of Jose...7 die in Colombian rainstorm
Storms in Colombia have caused the death of 7 people. " Seven people including three children died in Colombia due to heavy rainfalls, according to Colombian rescue team Friday. In Colombia's southwestern city Cali, one person and a four-year-old boy...Reporter flees Colombia threats
"A foreign correspondent in Colombia has fled the country after being criticised by President Alvaro Uribe over a book and receiving death threats. Mr Uribe accused Gonzalo Guillen of being "a professional slanderer". In the space of three days Mr Guillen said he received 24...Colombia's Norte dell Valle Leader, Cocaine Kingpin Nabbed
Big fish in the cocaine trafficking world nabbed by Columbia."BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Soldiers swarmed onto a farm Monday and captured one of the world's most wanted drug traffickers hiding in bushes in his...100 Biggest Cities in the World
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