Fromer Panamanian prez balked at price tag of a project that would increase electricity to region, but new prez is all for it saying it will give Panama energy security; also has potential to expand and provide for all of Central America and Mexico.
At the start of a temporary cease-fire, the death toll in the Gaza Strip reached over 900 Palestinians and three dozen Israelis who have been killed after almost three weeks of brutal fighting and bloodshed.
The site believed to be the burial location of Jonah, who is known in Judeo-Christian and Islamic traditions as being swallowed by a whale before becoming a prophet for God, was reportedly desecrated after Islamic extremists planted explosives around the tomb.
New Yorkers, in the hundreds, held a late afternoon rally in Manhattan on Thursday to show solidarity with Palestinians, call a stop to the Israeli offensive in Gaza and an end to the seven year blockade.
The daughters of the late former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez are still living in the presidential residence of La Casona in Caracas, despite there being a new president, Nicolás Maduro, in charge.
About half of the passengers plane were French. An Air Algerie plane carrying 116 people disappeared from radar shortly after takeoff late Wednesday night and then crashed in Mali, a French Ministry of Defense official told Fox News.
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said that an AIDS-free generation is within current technology and society's reach in a speech at an international conference in Australia
At least 47 people were killed on Wednesday when a TransAsia Airways turboprop plane crashed on an island off Taiwan while trying to make an emergency landing in the midst of torrential rains from Typhoon Matmo.
