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Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 07:09
Mexico is not planning to extradite to the United States captured drug lord Joaquin Guzman because he will first have to serve out jail time at home, an official at the federal attorney general's office said on Tuesday.
Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 07:05
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos is taking a tougher line with Venezuela's socialist government, urging it to free a prominent opposition leader.
Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 06:57
About 3,000 child soldiers will be gradually released from an armed group in South Sudan, the United Nations children's agency said after 280 children were freed on Tuesday.
Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 06:52
The rebels, with hands raised, were lined up on the edge of the cliff before being killed, one witness said. Burundi's army denied the allegation.
Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 06:48
A former bodyguard to Diosdado Cabello, the powerful president of congress and a leader of Venezuela’s military wing, defected to the U.S. to cooperate with officials investigating drug-trafficking, Venezuelan authorities said.
Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 06:48
A convoy of 400 Chadian military vehicles and hundreds of soldiers is en route to Cameroon and north-eastern Nigeria. The target: Boko Haram, which is running rings around Nigeria’s own security forces. But which Chad will turn up?
Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 06:46
The bill from Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) was approved last week by the House Committee on Homeland Security, which he chairs. It would require that the department attain full operational control of highly trafficked areas of the U.S.-Mexico border within two years, and the rest of the southwest border within five years.
Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 06:39
A new draft law on the use of atomic energy in Kazakhstan was presented on 15 January to the country's lower house of parliament, the Majilis. The draft aims to update an existing law adopted 15 years ago, during which time Kazakhstan has joined a number of international conventions in the nuclear sector, accumulated significant changes to its national legislation and identified gaps in the regulation of safety in the use of nuclear energy.
Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 06:37
Two days before the world entered 2015, a handful of former officers from the Gambian Armed Forces attacked the State House in Banjul, The Gambia. Published accounts call Lamin S. Sanneh, a former Gambian military officer, the ringleader of the aborted coup.
Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 06:35
Central Asia is not the sole determining factor in the development of Russia’s current and future relations with China and India. Yet the immense geopolitical value Central Asia presents for these three powers means that a competitive relationship regarding Central Asia is likely to be a thorn in the side of truly healthy relations. As such, it appears that it will be unlikely that Russia will make a full-fledged “re-orientation” or “pivot” toward Asia in the form of a definitive strategic triangle with two of Asia’s great powers, China and India.