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CARACAS, Venezuela The EU Parliament passed new guidelines Wednesday under which illegal migrants can be held in special detention centers not jails for up to 18 months before being expelled. Chavez said in a televised speech that the measure shows ...

TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - U.S. motorists are risking rampant drug violence in Mexico to drive over the border and fill their tanks with cheap Mexican fuel, some even coming to blows over gas shortages and long queues. The gap between Mexico's ...

Republican presidential John McCain assured Hispanic leaders he would push through Congress legislation to overhaul federal immigration laws if elected, several people who attended a private meeting with the candidate said Thursday. Democrats questioned ...

BAGHDAD, June 19 -- Iraqi and U.S. troops launched a military operation Thursday in the city of Amarah, a Shiite militia stronghold on the Iranian border, meeting virtually no resistance. In a move that angered followers of anti-American cleric Moqtada ...

CHICAGO-Republican presidential John McCain assured Hispanic leaders he would push through Congress legislation to overhaul federal immigration laws if elected, several people who attended a private meeting with the candidate said Thursday. Democrats ...

CARACAS, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Thursday that his country will suspend oil supply to European countries if new EU immigrant laws come into force. 'Our petroleum should not go to these European countries' that apply the ...

Three West Coast mayors are asking the leaders of other cities to take a stand against workplace immigration raids that they say hurt local economies and may force companies to relocate. At the annual meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors this week in ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) - A group of 18 Cubans crossed into Texas in good health more than a week after heavily armed masked men seized them from immigration agents in southern Mexico, the Attorney General's office said Thursday. The hijacking of a bus carrying ...

ISLAMABAD: Allied forces in the United States-led war against terrorism will exercise more care in future when acting against militants along the Pak-Afghan border, US Ambassador Anne W Patterson said on Thursday. She told 10 FATA MPs that a joint team ...

MEXICO CITY The hijacking of a bus carrying the illegal migrants to a detention center shows how violent criminal organizations are increasingly smuggling Cubans into the United States through Mexico. Cuba's ambassador to Mexico Manuel Aguilera blamed a ...