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This is Black Friday in the U.S., but many Canadian retailers are a furious red at the thought of consumers heading south for bargains. The Retail Council of Canada says there is a long list of reasons to shop north of the border. It says retailers are a ...

The United States is said to have entered a post-racial state. Two years ago, putting a long and brutal history of racial slavery, segregation, lynching, discrimination and disfranchisement behind it, the American nation elected its first black ...

Crossing the Border: Mexicos Drug Cartels Expand Recruitment of Americans So far this year, according to the records, 10 El Paso residents have been detained in Mexicos murder capital on drug-related charges, equaling the number arrested in all of ...

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Mexico is sending more troops and police to try to control drug violence that has spiralled into warfare along the US border. Such efforts so far have failed to quell drug violence which has killed 28,000 people since President Felipe Calderon launched ...

Caracas, Nov 26, (AFP) Globovision TV network boss Guillermo Zuloaga, who ran afoul of President Hugo Chavez earlier this year and fled arrest on criminal charges, told US media that he has asked for political asylum in the United States. Zuloaga, 67, ...

MEXICO CITY: Immigration authorities said they arrested 104 illegal migrants from Central America, Ecuador and India as they made their way through southern Oaxaca state to the United States. Federal agents "apprehended 104 people, including 15 women and ...

China urges both sides to remain calm, show restraint to ease tension The United States and the Republic of Korea (ROK) on Wednesday announced joint naval war games in the Yellow Sea, a day after the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) shelled ...

Nov. 25--A 23-year-old Mexican national man is being held on an $11,500 bond and immigration detainer at the Otero County Detention Center after he was arrested Monday for possession of 1/2 ounce of methamphetamine in Tularosa, an Otero County Narcotics ...

Following yesterdays private hearing in the city of Dallas, an appeal for political asylum for a former Ciudad Juarez police officer is now contingent on a U.S. immigration judge. The city of Ciudad Juarez is known as one of the most violent border ...

New US immigration figures show that Qatar has the highest success rate in the Gulf countries for US tourism visa approval. Newly released figures show that Qatar has the highest approval rate for US Visas in the Gulf. US Government figures reveal that ...

Los Angeles police say an Alabama man who served 18 months in Australian for his wife's drowning death has returned to the United States, where he could face prosecution for killing her during their 2003 honeymoon on the Great Barrier Reef. ...

A loonie flirting with U.S. dollar parity, plus the consumer backlash to the new HST in Ontario and British Columbia have made the kickoff day to the Christmas shopping season - which started early this year, on Thursday's U.S. Thanksgiving holiday - ...

The owner of a Venezuelan pro-opposition television channel has told U.S. media that he has asked for political asylum in the United States. Globovision president Guillermo Zuloaga made the comment Wednesday in an interview with CNNs Spanish language ...

MEXICO CITY - Mexico's census shows the population has grown more quickly than expected, in part due to a drop in the number of people leaving to seek work. Preliminary data released Thursday by the National Institute for Statistics and Geography says ...

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Nov. 19: Mexican soldiers inspect a home as residents flee border towns up and down the Rio Grande valley. MEXICO CITY Mexico will send more troops and federal police to try to control drug violence that has spiraled into warfare in parts of the ...

A Dallas immigration judge is deliberating an asylum request by a former Ciudad Jurez police officer who fled to the U.S. to escape drug violence and alleged threats from a cartel. Because of privacy and safety issues, the Wednesday hearing involving ...

(MEXICO CITY) Mexico will send more troops and federal police to try to control drug violence that has spiraled into warfare in parts of the northeast along the U.S. border, the government said Wednesday. The goal of "Coordinated Operation Northeast" ...

Nov. 19: Mexican soldiers inspect a home as residents flee border towns up and down the Rio Grande valley. MEXICO CITY Mexico will send more troops and federal police to try to control drug violence that has spiraled into warfare in parts of the ...