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ZURICH (Reuters) - A Libyan court has cleared Swiss businessman Rachid Hamdani of illegally being in the North African country, his lawyer and a spokesman for the Swiss foreign ministry said on Sunday. Hamdani's case, along with that of countryman Max ...

Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- Ten Americans charged with trafficking in Haiti defended their plan to bus 33 children into the Dominican Republic, saying their intention was to get them to a temporary shelter. 'We came into Haiti to help those that ...

Children suspected of being involved in an illicit adoption scheme sit in a local police car in Port-au-Prince January 30, 2010. Haitian police have arrested 10 U.S. citizens caught trying to take 33 children out of the earthquake-stricken country in a ...

Washington ? Even as health care reform twists in the wind, immigration policy looms as the next big political debate ? and Hispanics and Jews are moving to the forefront in a burgeoning political alliance. The next three months are seen as critical in ...

HAITIAN police are holding 10 US citizens on suspicion they tried to slip out of the country with 31 Haitian children in a trafficking scheme, a Government minister said. Haitian Social Affairs Minister Yves Christallin said the police arrested five men ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) The US embassy said here Sunday that ten US citizens were being held in Haiti for 'alleged violations of Haitian laws related to immigration,' following reports they tried to leave the country with 33 Haitian children. 'American ...

Jan. 31--U.S.-MEXICAN BORDER -- After a 20-minute drive into a federally protected stretch in Arizona, retired Forest Service employee Mark South points to an aging, four-strand barbed-wire fence separating the United States from its southern neighbor. ...

The church group, most of them from Idaho, allegedly lacked the proper documents when they were arrested Friday night in a bus along with children from 2 months to 12 years old who had survived the catastrophic earthquake. The group say they were setting ...

SEOUL: A second US citizen who was detained by North Korea for crossing the border has sought political asylum in the communist state, a South Korean newspaper said on Saturday. The report by the conservative Dong-A Ilbo daily could not be ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Ten Americans were detained by Haitian police yesterday as they tried to bus 33 children across the border into the Dominican Republic, allegedly without proper documents. The Baptist church members from Idaho called it a Haitian ...

With their high-priority issues prominent on national agendas, members of the clergy have been unusually active in politics. Catholic bishops in New Jersey and elsewhere have been especially vocal on matters such as same-sex marriage, national health ...

Ten Americans were detained by Haitian police on Saturday as they tried to bus 33 children across the border into the Dominican Republic, allegedly without proper documents. ...

The following is a transcript of an interview VOA State Department Correspondent David Gollust had with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Paris 29 Jan 2010. In the interview, Clinton discussed developments in Afghanistan, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, ...

TEGUCIGALPA, HondurasHonduras' new government has reinstated its top immigration official, 24 hours after firing him, citing 'a misunderstanding and a mistake.' Nelson Willy Mejia, the head of Honduras' immigration agency, was dismissed Friday after a ...

American seeks asylum in North Korea An American man detained by North Korea after allegedly entering the communist country has illegally sought asylum and wants to join its military, a news report said yesterday. South Koreas Dong-a Ilbo ...

Seoul - A US citizen detained in North Korea has reportedly requested asylum because he wants to serve in the North Korean army and not a 'capitalist militia', South Korea's Dong-a Ilbo newspaper reported on Saturday. Few details were released about the ...

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NEW YORK Fire engulfed a building housing Guatemalan immigrants in Brooklyn on Saturday, collapsing part of the roof, trapping residents and killing at least five people, including a woman who tossed two children out a window in a frantic attempt to save ...

An American man detained by North Korea after allegedly entering the communist country has illegally sought asylum and wants to join its military, a news report said yesterday. South Koreas Dong-a Ilbo newspaper said the man crossed into North Korea ...

SEOUL, South Korea An American man detained by North Korea after allegedly entering the communist country illegally has sought asylum and wants to join its military, a news report said Saturday. South Korea's Dong-a Ilbo newspaper said the man ...