An international scandal is growing after an Australian-Israeli man with ties to Israel’s spy agency, the Mossad, died inside a maximum security prison in Israel. For more than two years, the Israeli government imposed a strict gag order on his 2010 death, but now the secret is leaking out.
Read MoreOur memory is short sometimes, and I know that in about a month the story of the devaluation will be forgotten completely. We will have given another sign of how quickly we can adapt to different situations that present themselves, while we’ll remodel our comfort zone to feel once again like fish in water.
Read MoreLinor Abargil, an Israeli national, was crowned Miss World in 1998 just two months after she was abducted and raped in Italy. After winning the title, Abargil would go to become a global advocate in the fight against sexual violence.
Read MoreProtesters from across the United States and Canada urged President Obama to reject the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, which would deliver tar sands oil from Alberta to refineries along the Gulf Coast.
Read MoreRafael Correa won reelection in Ecuador with 56.5% of the vote on Sunday, reported Publico.es on Monday with 95% of the ballots tabulated. Correa appeared before thousands of cheering Ecuadorians on Sunday evening in Quito’s Independence Plaza saying: “I’m not going to disappoint you” and “nobody or nothing will stop this revolution.”
Read MoreParishioners at the National Shrine of St. Lazarus, in Havana, prayed for the health of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during Lent Mass, which takes place every February 17th on behalf of the sick, reported Prensa Latina. Chávez made a surprise return to Venezuela early on Monday.
Read MoreVenezuelan President Hugo Chavez, announced today via his Twitter page that he has returned to Caracas after receiving treatment for cancer in Cuba, reported DPA news. “I have returned to the Venezuelan homeland. Thank God!! Thank you beloved people! I will continue the treatment here.”.
Read MoreCanadian Foreign Minister John Baird will visit several Latin American countries next week including Mexico, Venezuela, Peru, Panama and also Cuba, where he is expected to arrive on Friday, Feb. 22. The timing of the first visit by a top Canadian diplomat since Joe Clark’s trip in 1986, coincides with economic reforms in Cuba.
Read MoreThe fire that killed former Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner on Tuesday has drawn comparisons to the deadly 1993 raid on the Branch Davidian complex in Waco, Texas, and the 1985 police bombing of the MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia.
Read MoreThe first official photos of the ailing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez from his Havana, Cuba hospital bed were released on Friday, nine weeks after he underwent surgery for the fourth time in a year and a half.
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