Tweet Mexico City : At least 14 people were killed in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon in clashes between police and alleged members of the country’s powerful criminal gangs, media reported Saturday. Two successive shootouts in the Monterrey suburb of Juarez left 12 dead late Friday, including a boss of the dreaded Los [...]

Tweet Buenos Aires/La Paz : Four years after taking office, Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first president of indigenous descent, is poised for re-election with a first-round majority. A year ago, Bolivia seemed haunted by the ghosts of civil war, with deep divisions between east and west, town and country, and between Morales’ supporters and opponents. Ahead [...]

Tweet Athens : More than 100 youth were detained after clashes with riot police and five Italians and four Greeks were arrested, reports said Saturday. The clashes come a day before the first anniversary of a police shooting of a teenager, which sparked the country’s worst riots in decades. The arrests and detentions took place [...]

Tweet Sydney : The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Tuesday raised interest rates 25 basis points to 3.75 percent to choke off inflationary pressure as the economy gains momentum. It was the third month in a row that the RBA has hiked rates by one-quarter of 1 percent. “Despite the volatility in financial markets in [...]