With allegations of police turning students over to drug gangs and public officials getting insider deals on luxury homes, Mexico is in the midst of a crisis of confidence. In an effort to address the public's lack of faith in its government, Mexico is introducing an independent court to sanction public servants for corruption offenses.
This Ash Wednesday, thousands of Mexicans demanding justice for the 43 students from a teachers in Iguala who disappeared last September, took their protest to the world of social media.
Some 4,200 refugees have been rescued from the frigid waters of the Mediterranean Sea over the course of just five days, suggesting a record-setting surge in migrants. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees warned that the situation off Italy's coastlines was "out of control."
Washington and Tehran are trying to narrow their differences over Iran's nuclear program in talks set to begin Friday in Geneva. Negotiators failed to meet a self-imposed deadline in November to end the 12-year standoff over Tehran's nuclear capabilities. Top U.S. and Iranian diplomats will now again try to strike a deal.
The terminology Barack Obama employs as the United States fights ISIS, al-Qaida and other Islamist militants has come under scrutiny as the president hosts a three-day White House summit on the fight against terrorism.
The Argentine foreign affairs minister has sent letters to both the U.S. and Israel requesting American involvement in the 1994 AMIA bombing investigation. Argentina remains embroiled in controversy following the death of investigator Alberto Nisman who was in charge of the AMIA case.
On Tuesday night, stars, media moguls, entrepreneurs, and philanthropists dressed to the nines filed New York's glamorous Cipriani Wall Street in support of Marc Anthony and entrepreneur Henry Cárdenas' Maestro Cares Foundation that benefits homeless and neglected children in developing Latin American countries.
The Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations on Tuesday accused the ISIS terror group of using organ harvesting as a way to finance its operations and asked the U.N. Security Council to take action.
Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine took the embattled town of Debaltseve on Wednesday as government forces retreated, the Associated Press reported. The rebels hoisted a flag over the town in triumph and said they had taken hundreds of Kiev's soldiers captive.
Pemex will reserve the use of their pipelines, which run across Mexico, for unfinished fuel only.At the point when the incomplete product reaches the company's storage plants, the fuel will then go through a final phase of mixing
Central Chile experienced magnitude 5.0 tremors Tuesday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey and Reuters. As of Tuesday afternoon, there were no reports of any damage.
The Cuban state-run media reported two men have been sentenced for the crime of killing four people who were trying to leave the communist island in June. Along with the two charged with murder, five more people were also sentenced in connection with a caper designed to con Cubans who wished to migrate from the country into thinking they would be smuggled out when instead the victims would have their money stolen.
