Mexican police have arrested last Friday a member of a criminal drug gang linked with the murder of 43 student teachers in the southern city of Iguala last September
With the U.S. and Cuba normalizing its diplomatic relations, President Barack Obama is expected to comment on its progress, however, the future with the Guantanamo Bay prison facility remains shrouded.
The U.S. government confidently traced last year's massive Sony hack to North Korea in part because the National Security Agency had itself infiltrated Pyongyang's computer systems. The NSA tried to break into the North's networks as early as 2010 with the help of American allies.
Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine affirmed on Monday that they were in control of the Donetsk airport. The city of nearly a million inhabitants serves as the capital of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic, and the airfield - though largely destroyed in earlier clashes - is of significant strategic and symbolic value.
Fighting between government forces and Shiite rebels has Yemen on the brink of a coup, though both sides agreed to a cease-fire on Monday after clashes had reached the vicinity of the presidential palace in Sanaa, the country's capital.
In the wake of the deadly attacks on the Charlie Hebdo magazine and a kosher grocery store in Paris and in an effort to foil similar incidents, French, German and Belgian authorities on Friday arrested more than two dozen terrorism suspects.
European police arrested over two dozen suspects in anti-terrorism raids Friday. French, German and Belgian police rushed to stop terrorist attacks by people linked to Islamic extremists in the Middle East, Associated Press reported.
Belgian police killed two men during one of about a dozen raids Thursday against an Islamist group who was reportedly about to launch large terrorist attacks.
The French public further underlined its support for Charlie Hebdo by picking up all 700,000 copies of the satirical magazine attacked last week by Islamist militants. The publication's latest issue, offered at 27,000 newsstands across the country, sold out within minutes.
After initial fears about a possible toxic gas leak aboard the International Space Station, it appears that a problem with a computer onboard the craft sounded the alarm by mistake, which then prompted astronauts located on the American side of the station to move to the Russian sector on Wednesday while the situation was investigated.
Al-Qaida's Yemeni branch on Wednesday claimed responsibility for last week's attack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which left 12 people dead and sparked a week of violence and massive anti-terror protests across the country.
Turmoil is looming over Venezuela while President Nicolas Maduro is abroad. One of the opposition’s leaders, Miranda Gov. Henrique Capriles, has called for new protests against the government to call attention to the country’s current troubles.
