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MEXICO CITY (AP): After a decade of caring for camels, lions, lynxes and lemurs, Joel Frías joined the team handling the Chapultepec Zoo’s star attraction: the giant pandas. It was 2000, and Mexico City’s zoo, nestled in its massive forested urban...

PARIS (AP): French authorities announced the discovery Sunday of a body on a beach used as one of the launch points for migrants attempting the perilous sea crossing from northern France to the UK on flimsy inflatable boats. Attempted crossings...

UNITED NATIONS (CMC): The United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed says Haiti is “at the eye of a storm” with armed gangs tearing apart communities and families being forced from their homes. Addressing the high-level meeting on...

TALLAHASSEE (AP): Over the past five months, Florida law -enforcement officials have arrested more than 6,000 people suspected of being in the country illegally, a US Border Patrol official announced Friday, as the state continues its aggressive...

HOUSTON (AP): A Texas man faced execution Thursday for killing his girlfriend’s 13-month-old daughter during a torturous ordeal the couple said was part of an “exorcism” to expel a demon from the child’s body. Blaine Milam, 35, was condemned for...

PARIS (AP): A Paris court on Thursday sentenced former French President Nicolas Sarkozy to five years in prison after finding him guilty of criminal conspiracy in a scheme to finance his 2007 campaign with funds from Libya, a verdict that the still...

PARIS (AP) — A Paris court on Thursday sentenced former French President Nicolas Sarkozy to five years in prison after finding him guilty of criminal conspiracy in an alleged scheme to finance his 2007 campaign with funds from Libya. The...

SAN JUAN (AP): Federal immigration agents have arrested Dimitri Vorbe, one of Haiti’s most powerful businessmen and the latest elite figure from the troubled Caribbean country to be detained on US soil. Vorbe was in custody of US Immigration and...