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The migrants fled in the chaos, but 21 were quickly caught. Police were searching for the other 13. After being detained initially, the Central American migrants were allegedly handed over by police to human smugglers who held them for four days at a ...

MEXICO CITY, Oct 10 (IPS) - The Mexican government has taken emergency financial measures to withstand the winds of crisis from the United States, which this country is heavily dependent on as shown by their daily bilateral trade volume of one billion ...

LAS GRAJALES, Mexico -- An angry crowd in central Mexico attacked police and helped nearly three dozen illegal Central American immigrants escape from custody after hearing that officers had allegedly sold the migrants to human smugglers, officials said ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A 20-year-old American man was arrested late today at a checkpoint near the Afghan border in a tribal region where Pakistani troops are fighting Taliban and al-Qaida militants, police said. Officers were investigating what the man ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan Officers were investigating what the man was doing in the border area, which is believed to be a possible hiding place for Usama bin Laden and other foreign extremists, said the officer, Pir Shahab. He said the man identified on his ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan Officers were investigating what the man was doing in the border area, which is believed to be a possible hiding place for Osama bin Laden and other foreign extremists, said the officer, Pir Shahab. He said the man -- identified on his ...

A 20-year-old American man was arrested late Monday at a checkpoint near the Afghan border in a tribal region where Pakistani troops are fighting Taliban and al-Qaida militants, police said. Officers were investigating what the man was doing in the ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A 20-year-old American man was arrested late Monday at a checkpoint near the Afghan border in a tribal region where Pakistani troops are fighting Taliban and al-Qaida militants, a police officer said. Officers were investigating what ...

ROME (Reuters) - Italian police have arrested five Nigerian traffickers accused of throwing 13 illegal immigrants off their boat because of fears that they brought bad luck, investigative sources said Monday. Twelve of the victims, all men, were from ...

Perhaps the time has come for Nepal to acknowledge the long-term prospect of Non-Resident Nepali from North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and other developed nations of the world to play significant role in economic developments at this ...

I met Hassan in the fall of 2006, when my friend Amelia and I were hitchhiking through south Lebanon in search of Hezbollah guerrillas. Hassan and his friend Muhammad did not meet the qualifications but did possess a Range Rover, thus persuading us to ...

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan - A suspected U.S. missile strike has killed three people in a Pakistani town near the Afghan border. Saturday's missile strike is the latest in a string of suspected cross-border U.S. attacks in a region where top al-Qaida ...

MADRID Spain once wooed and wanted immigrants. Over the last decade, the booming economy sought poor foreigners to come and harvest its bounty of grapes, avocados and oranges. It welcomed waves of Latin Americans, Moroccans and Romanians to build fancy ...

DERA ISMAIL KHAN - A suspected U.S. missile strike killed five tribesmen in a Pakistani town close to the Afghan border. Saturday's missile strike is the latest in a string of suspected cross-border U.S. attacks in a region where top al-Qaida leaders are ...

NNIE MOORE has achieved a significance in death that she would never have imagined possible in her lifetime. She was the first immigrant through America's Ellis Island and her grave in New York was marked this weekend, 84 years after her death. She ...

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan - A suspected US missile strike killed at least five people in a town near the Afghan border late yesterday, the latest in a series of attacks in a region where top Al Qaeda leaders are believed to be living, officials said. ...

MIRANSHAH: US pilotless spy planes continued to violate Pakistan's airspace in the tribal areas on Sunday after a missile attack in Miranshah, the headquarter of South Waziristan in which four people were killed. According to a foreign News Agency, 4 ...

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NEW YORKThe New York grave of an Irish woman who was the first immigrant to pass through Ellis Island has been marked with a Celtic cross.Clergy members joined Annie Moore's descendants and admirers Saturday in a Queens Cemetery. She died 80 years ago, ...

TAKEAWAY: According to a study by the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services, 13 percent of petitions filed for H-1B visas are fraudulent. This is the first time the agency has documented problems with the controversial program, which critics say ...