Flickr Commons Police around the globe arrested 79 suspected members of an international child pornography network on Monday. The arrests were made in 18 different countries, including the United States, Spain, and several Latin American countries, following 200 raids in 47 cities as part of Operation No Borders. At least 19 of the arrests were made in Spain, primarily in Madrid. Span...

By Wendy Anders After investigations into electoral irregularities by Austria’s interior ministry, the country’s highest court called for a presidential rerun at a date still to be determined, reported Alexei Korolyov today from Vienna, Austria in a special report for USA Today. The investigations were requested by the New Freedom Party (FPÖ), a far-right populist party, who lost to Green Pa...

Cartoon by Clay Jones The European Union leaders have agreed that Brexit is irreversible in a summit where accusations were exchanged on both sides about who bore responsibility for the decision, and pressure was exerted on London to activate the divorce process as soon as possible. British Prime Minister David Cameron said after attending his last European Council summit that he would have...

TRT English Twitter Suicide-bombings Tuesday at Istanbul's Atatürk airport left 36 people dead and 120 wounded, Turkish public television network TRT said Among the dead are five police officers, TRT's English service reported. Istanbul Gov. Vasip Sahin said earlier that the assault was carried out by three suicide terrorists. The explosions occurred around 9:30 p.m., TRT said. An ...

Wikimedia Commons The Metropolitan Police, or Met, is on heightened alert following reports of xenophobic incidents after the Brexit victory in the referendum on the European Union, reported the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. The mayor has asked the Met to be "extra vigilant" after the Polish embassy in the United Kingdom expressed its shock at xenophobia against the Polish community in this ...

Wikimedia Commons Algeciras, Spain, Jun 20 (EFE).- The Spanish Civil Guard in the southern port of Algeciras seized 280 kilos (615 lbs.) of cocaine hidden in a container shipped from Brazil, the security corps reported in a statement. An investigation by Spain's Civil Guard aided by Brazilian police intelligence found the drug hidden in a container transporting a legal cargo of sugar. On...

Illustrative image. (Flickr Commons) Caracas, Jun 6 (EFE).- The body of Italian diplomat Mauro Monciatti, an administrative official at Italy's consulate in Caracas, was found at his home in an eastern Caracas neighborhood, fellow diplomat Lorenzo Salinas confirmed to EFE on Monday. Monciatti, 60, died from blunt trauma to the skull, an official with the Cicpc criminal investigative unit, w...

(YouTube / ODN) Spain’s Minister of Justice, Rafael Catala on Monday proposed leaving some US $4 billion to $17 billion worth of gold and silver on the seafloor off the coast of Colombia in order to avoid conflict over its ownership. The treasure is the cargo of the legendary galleon San Jose, a Spanish ship that was sunk in 1708 near the coast of Cartagena of the Indies, which was discover...

A Russian T-72 battle tank, similar to those heading to Nicaragua. (CC) Russia will deliver 50 new T-72B1 battle tanks to Nicaragua this year, in a deal worth some US $80 million, according to Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency and Nicaraguan media. The first batch of 20 tanks is ready for shipment, and the remaining 30 are to be delivered by the end of the year or early 2017, according to th...

Injured people are seen at the scene of explosions at Zaventem airport near Brussels, Belgium, March 22, 2016. REUTERS/Ketevan Kardava/Courtesy of 1tv.ge/Handout via Reuters BRUSSELS (Reuters) - At least 35 people are confirmd dead in attacks on Brussels airport and a rush-hour metro train in the Belgian capital on Tuesday, triggering security alerts across Europe and global expressions of sup...

Source: Anonymous Turkey Ankara, Mar 13 (EFE). - At least 34 people were killed, while 125 other were wounded - the vast majority of them civilians - on Sunday when a powerful car-bomb explosion ripped through Kizilay Square in central Ankara, Turkish Health Minister Mehmet Muezzinoglu said at a press conference. Meanwhile, Turkish Interior Minister Efkan Ala said at the same press conferen...

Wikimedia Commons Asuncion, Mar 8 (EFE).- Paraguayan media reported Tuesday that Madeleine McCann, the British girl who suddenly went missing in Portugal in 2007, has been found in the South American nation, though the Asuncion office of Interpol told EFE they know nothing about the private investigator said to have tracked down the girl. The case of the missing girl caused a stir in the me...

Roses now adorn the spot where the Jesuits were gunned down on the UCA's campus on Nov. 16, 1989. They were planted by Obdulio Ramos, husband to Julia Elba Ramos and father to Celina Ramos, who were killed along with the Jesuits. Photo by Charles Barry. Jesuits.org Washington, Feb 5 (EFE).- A U.S. district judge on Friday approved the extradition to Spain of a retired Salvadoran army officer w...

By Vitaly V. Kuzmin - http://vitalykuzmin.net/?q=node/464, CC BY-SA 3.0, Istanbul, Jan 30 (EFE).- The Turkish government summoned the Russian ambassador to protest the latest violation of its airspace by a Russian fighter jet, Turkey's Foreign Ministry said Saturday. The incident took place Friday at 0946 GMT and involved an Su-34 fighter jet of the Russian air force, according to an offici...

Flickr Commons Mexico City, Jan 16 (EFE).- The arrest in Spain of a former chairman of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, has roiled the political scene in Mexico, where the main opposition parties demanded that President Enrique Peña Nieto's administration take legal action against the politician. The center-right National Action Party, or PAN, insisted that the "full we...

Wikimedia Commons By Juan Carlos Gomi Bogota, Jan 11 (EFE).- The Spanish galleon San Jose did not sink off Colombia under attack by English ships, as contemporaneous accounts say, and perhaps it did not go down in the Caribbean with its load of treasure due to a powerful explosion, as English commodore Charles Wager reported, nautical researcher Daniel de Narvaez MacAllister told EFE. Th...

ISIS fighters in Iraq. Source: Wikimedia Commons London, Jan 3 (EFE).- The Islamic State jihadist group on Sunday released a videotape online in which it allegedly executes five men it described as British "spies," going on to threaten one day to invade the British Isles, the BBC reported. In the video, which British media showed portions of, a masked man - pistol in hand and speaking with ...

Wikimedia Commons Brussels, Dec 30 (EFE).- Brussels Mayor Yvan Mayeur decided Wednesday to cancel all fireworks displays and other public festivities planned for New Year's Eve, local media reported. The mayor made the decision after it became known on Tuesday that Belgian security forces had foiled - by arresting the presumed terrorists - a possible attack on "several emblematic sites" pla...

Wikimedia Commons Paris, Dec 20 (EFE).- The device whose discovery forced an Air France plane to make an emergency landing in Kenya was not a bomb, the carrier's CEO, Frederic Gagey, said Sunday. The suspected bomb found in one of the restrooms on the plane, which was flying from Mauritius to Paris, was made from cardboard and had some kind of timer. The object appeared to be a bomb but ...

Taliban operating in Afghanistan. Wikimedia Commons Kabul, Dec 12 (EFE).- Ten people, including two Spanish police officers, died in a Taliban attack on a Spanish Embassy compound in the Afghan capital and an ensuing gun battle, a nearly 12-hour incident that ended early Saturday and represented a new show of force by the insurgents. Both the Spanish and Afghan governments confirmed Saturda...

Wikimedia Commons Quito, Dec 11 (EFE).- Ecuador and Sweden have signed an agreement that will enable Swedish prosecutors to question WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at Ecuador's embassy in London, the Andean nation said Friday. Negotiations began in June and the agreement was reached on Thursday, Ecuador's Foreign Ministry said in a statement, adding that it will enter into force "in the c...

Wikimedia Commons Baghdad, Dec 5 (EFE).- Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi demanded Saturday that Turkey withdraw its troops from Iraqi territory, the day after a first contingent of Turkish soldiers advanced toward the city of Mosul in the northern part of the country. Al-Abadi described as "a serious violation of Iraqi sovereignty" the entry of Turkish forces into Nineveh province, who...

Wikimedia Commons London, Dec 6 (EFE).- The stabbings of three people at a London metro station are being investigated as a "terrorist act," the Metropolitan Police said Sunday. One of the three people stabbed on Saturday at the Leytonstone station on the east side of London is listed in serious condition. Investigators are looking at the possible terrorist connections of the assailant, ...

Source: Red Cross of Costa Rica United Nations Country Team Costa Rica News Release - The National Commission for Risk Prevention and Emergency Care Costa Rica (CNE in its Spanish acronym) reported 400 Cuban migrants in Peñas Blancas border facility and 1,320 migrants in 7 shelters. Highlights follow: As of 19 November at 12pm, the government reported that the situation was under control a...

Twitter photo by Brussels resident Tobias Troll Brussels, Nov 21 (EFE).- Belgium's capital was effectively placed on lockdown on Saturday - with metro lines, shopping malls and museums shuttered and concerts and other events canceled - after authorities raised their terror alert to the highest level due to the risk of "imminent" attacks. The country's crisis center announced early Saturday ...

El Dorado airport in Bogota. Wikimedia Commons Bogota, Nov 19 (EFE).- One of the people being investigated for having participated in last week's terrorist attacks in Paris left Bogota in July and traveled to the French capital after bribing officials to let him leave the country, a source in the immigration agency told EFE. The suspect, identified as Syrian national Al Sakhadi Seham, made ...

"Paris Shootings - The day after (22593744177)" by Maya-Anaïs Yataghène. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Commons Washington, Nov 18 (EFE).- The alleged mastermind behind the jihadist terrorist attacks in Paris last week died in the massive police operation undertaken Wednesday in the French capital, The Washington Post reported. The daily, citing two top European intelligence officials, said t...

French Mirage fighter jet. Wikimedia Commons Paris, Nov 15 (EFE).- France on Sunday launched massive airstrikes on an Islamic State terrorist camp near the Syrian town of Raqqa, a zone controlled by the jihadist group, officials with the French Defense Ministry told EFE. According to the officials, the French air strikes, which came two days after terrorists killed at least 132 people in Pa...

Flickr Commons In the wake of the recent atrocities committed against the good people of France, the Presidential Office of Costa Rica released the following statement: The Office of the Presidency of the Republic of Costa Rica hereby sends heartfelt expressions of solidarity and support for the people and Government of France in this time of grief. Costa Rica expresses its deep condemnati...

ISIS fighters in Iraq. Source: Wikimedia Commons Washington, Nov 4 (EFE).- The chartered Russian passenger jet that crashed last weekend in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula could have been downed by the Islamic State or a related jihadist group, according to the investigation into the tragedy being conducted by the U.S. government. According to U.S. intelligence sources quoted by media outlets, inve...

ISIS fighters in Iraq. Source: Wikimedia Commons Cairo, Oct 31 (EFE).- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro expressed "his most heartfelt condolences" to the Russian government and to the families of the victims of the plane crash Saturday in the northern Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. The crash of the commercial jet of the Russian company Kogalymavia, widely known as Metrojet, killed the 224 peo...

By Steve Gutterman and Oliver Holmes MOSCOW/BEIRUT | Thu Dec 13, 2012 10:27am EST MOSCOW/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels are gaining ground and might win, Russia's Middle East envoy said on Thursday, in the starkest such admission from a major ally of President Bashar al-Assad in 20 months of conflict. "One must look the facts in the face," Russ...

By Erika Solomon BEIRUT | Sun Dec 9, 2012 3:30pm EST BEIRUT (Reuters) - U.S. and Russian officials have given their commitment to a political solution for the deepening Syrian conflict, a United Nations envoy said on Sunday, but Moscow dismissed speculation it was preparing for President Bashar al-Assad's exit. With rebels now fighting on the doo...

By Erika Solomon and David Brunnstrom BEIRUT/DUBLIN | Thu Dec 6, 2012 6:03pm EST BEIRUT/DUBLIN (Reuters) - The two superpowers divided by Syria's civil war met head to head on Thursday, with signs emerging that Russia might curb its support for President Bashar al-Assad and Washington saying events were gathering speed on the ground. U.S. Secreta...

LONDON | Tue Nov 20, 2012 7:50am EST LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has officially recognized the fledgling Syrian National Coalition opposition group, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Tuesday. "Her majesty's government has decided to recognize the national coalition of Syrian revolution and opposition forces as the sole legitimate representat...

ANKARA | Tue Nov 20, 2012 6:50am EST ANKARA (Reuters) - NATO member states have agreed to supply Turkey with an advanced Patriot missile system to defend against Syrian attacks and talks on its deployment are in the final stage, Turkey's foreign minister said on Tuesday. Turkey has been talking to NATO allies about how to shore up security on its 900-km ...

By John Irish PARIS | Mon Nov 19, 2012 3:35pm EST PARIS (Reuters) - President Francois Hollande's decision to recognize Syria's new opposition bloc aims to secure long-term French interests in the region and boost his foreign policy image but, with few allies following suit, Paris may risk isolation. With his economic policies under harsh scrutin...

BRUSSELS | Mon Nov 19, 2012 7:14am EST BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Turkey is expected to request on Monday that NATO missiles be placed on its border with Syria to defend against mortar rounds fired from its neighbor, Germany's defense minister said. Only the United States, the Netherlands and Germany have the appropriate Patriot missile system available. Germa...

BERLIN | Sat Nov 17, 2012 8:14am EST BERLIN (Reuters) - Turkey will formally ask NATO on Monday to set up missiles on its border with Syria due to growing concern about spillover from a 20-month-old civil war in its neighbor, a German newspaper reported on Saturday. The Munich-based Sueddeutsche Zeitung, which did not cite its sources, also said that up ...

PARIS | Sat Nov 17, 2012 7:18am EST PARIS (Reuters) - Syria's opposition coalition is to appoint an envoy to France, French President Francois Hollande said after meeting the head of the Syrian National Coalition on Saturday. A French diplomatic source said the official would act as a representative of the coalition, becoming ambassador once a provisiona...