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Venezuelan troops seized a cement plant owned by Mexico's Cemex SAB after a deal to nationalize the firm failed.
Troops occupied the Maracaibo Cemex plant in the western state of Zulia Monday night but plan to take control of all four Cemex plants in Venezuela Tuesday.
"At midnight, we are going to take operational control of...
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 One day before the 17th International AIDS conference, thousands of people worldwide marched through streets in the capital of Mexico on all for the fight against homophobia and discrimination against people infected with HIV. The mass of protestors taking to the streets was part of the demonstration. With the aim of pointing up their...
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A court sentenced an Argentine former army officer to life in prison for the kidnapping, torture and killing of four leftist activists in the Revolutionary Worker's Party in 1977, Telam, the Argentine National News Agency reported.80-year-old Luciano Benjamin Menendez was found guilty along with seven others crimes. He was the leader of...
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Brazilian police recovered a stolen Picasso print and arrested one suspect in the June 12 robbery from a Sao Paulo museum, authorities said Sunday.The print from Picasso's 1963 series The Painter and the Model was recovered undamaged Saturday in an attic in a public housing estate in Sao Paulo. After the suspect was nabbed, he confessed...
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 A team of archaeologists has uncovered the undamaged antique
tomb of a pre-Incan leader who lived 1,600 years ago and the discovery may be
of great use in solving the mysteries regarding Peru's ancient Moche culture, the
group's Canadian lead scientist said on Saturday.
The tomb, named Huaca del Pueblo, was unearthed in the
region...
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Operation Checkmate was a success. Colombian military troops managed to rescue Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages from the jungle controlled by the extreme left-wing FARC guerrilla movement.General Freddy Padilla de Leon, Colombia’s most senior military officer, had his troops in position along the Apaporis River, in the wilderness...
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 Meteorologists’ research has shown that Tropical Storm Bertha has begun moving away from the Cape Verde Islands on Friday morning after forming in the far eastern Atlantic on Thursday afternoon.The storm is expected to take a turn to the northwest and then north before it reaches North America. It’s early to predict any development of...
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 Armed and unmasked thieves stole two Pablo Picasso prints and two works by
Brazilian artists from Sao Paulo’s Pinacoteca Museum on Thursday, officials said, according
to Reuters.
It appears this is the second major art theft in the Brazilian city in six
months.
Three robbers entered the museum and threatened security guards....
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 The Amazonian states of Beni
and Pando voted overwhelmingly Sunday for autonomy from the central government.
The referendum came a month after voters in the State of Santa Cruz also cast
ballots in favour of autonomy. Both states passed autonomy measures by more
than 80 percent of the vote. The Bolivian government said the vote was...
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 A new Indian tribe that hasn’t had contact with civilization was discovered in the Amazon. Brazil’s National Indian Foundation said in the statement it spotted a group of Indians, six huts and a large planted area near the Envira River, close to the Peruvian border in the Brazilian state of Acre in the western Amazon rainforest.“We put...
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Today is Thursday, June 5
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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