Alarmed by tide, Britain acts to deter asylum seekers
As head of the Kurdistan Regional Government of northern Iraq's British office, Siamand Banaa has his hands full these days tending to refugees. Men, women and children often pile into...
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Color this romance yellow and green
Magazines and newspapers are calling it a passionate love affair, an enchanting devotion not seen for some time in this steamy nation of 170 million people. The passion is evident...
Military revolts in Venezuela
Top military commanders broke ranks with President Hugo Chavez on Thursday, launching a rebellion hours after a dozen people died and more than 100 were injured in a chaotic clash...
Latin America also focus of terror probe
This gritty border town long has been known as South America's contraband capital, where anything from a fake Rolex to drugs to counterfeit CDs can be had cheaply. But after...
VENEZUELA’S CHAVEZ WINS 2ND TERM
Venezuela's charismatic President Hugo Chavez cruised to an easy re-election victory Sunday, but his days of total control over Venezuela's political structure appeared to be in jeopardy as his party...
PERU’S UNLIKELY CANDIDATE HAS MOMENTUM ON HIS SIDE
When the former shoeshine boy who might become Peru's next president arrived at the airport near this town encircled by high mountains, he was greeted like a rock star. A...
PERU LEADER FIGHTS TO KEEP POWER
In a shantytown on the edge of Lima, President Alberto Fujimori is an omnipresent patriarch whose political "good works" are scattered throughout this dusty hillside like bits of gold. In...
ALBERTO FUJIMORI
When Alberto Fujimori was elected president of Peru in 1990, a 10-year war against Maoist guerrillas and sky-high inflation had made a mess out of the country. Fear prevailed across...
CITY PADS PRICE OF COLLEGE REHAB
Chicago officials used grossly inflated and sometimes double-counted repair estimates to justify a plan approved by the City Council last month to raze and rebuild Kennedy-King College just 27 years...
UIC CUTS CLASSES AS OUTAGE STRIKES CAMPUS
University of Illinois at Chicago students got an early start to the weekend Friday when a power outage plunged the Near West Side campus into near-darkness for three hours, forcing...