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American tourists heading to Mexico’s Baja California state in the future can expect more police protection from a new task force, according to Mexican authorities. Officials from the Baja California cities of Tijuana, Ensenada and Rosarito gathered earlier this week to announce the creation of the task force, which will be made up of bilingual officers and which will be designed primarily to serve Americans
Italy’s flamboyant Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will soon learn whether a controversial law granting top officials immunity from prosecution will remain on the books, after the country’s top court heard arguments about it Tuesday. The Italian Constitutional Court could open the way for the billionaire prime minister to face charges of bribery, influence peddling and tax fraud if it strikes down the law
The arrest warrant used to detain filmmaker Roman Polanski in Switzerland was valid, the Swiss Justice Ministry said Tuesday, making clear it will fight the director’s appeal against his detention over a 1977 sex case. Polanski, 76, is challenging his detention on other grounds as well.
A national campaign to inoculate tens of millions of Americans against H1N1 influenza began Monday, with health care workers in Indiana and Tennessee targeted as the first recipients, federal health authorities said. Obama will be joined by, among others, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Minority Leader John Boehner, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and the heads of the Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees in the House and Senate, the officials said
A 37-year-old Pennsylvania woman died Sunday after being mauled by her pet black bear, authorities said.
Hundreds remained missing Sunday beneath mud and debris in Indonesian villages from a pair of devastating earthquakes that struck the country at its center.
Wearing a Nashville School of Law T-shirt, Christopher Savoie walked into a second-floor police interrogation room.
Civilians, including women and children, were killed in an airstrike by coalition troops in southern Afghanistan, NATO’s International Security Assistance Force said Thursday.
When filmmaker Roman Polanski was arrested Saturday in Switzerland, he was on his way to accept an award for Lifetime Achievement at the Zurich Film Festival. Polanski’s friend, Swiss filmmaker Otto Weisser, was among the first to publicly run to his defense
Iran has notified the Swiss government that it can have access to three American hikers detained near the border with Iraq, two senior U.S. officials confirmed Tuesday