GENERAL SANTOS, Philippines - Philippine prosecutors on Tuesday filed 25 counts of murder against the heir to a political clan accused of leading the election-related massacre of 57 people last week, officials said. The charges against Andal Ampatu
MONTERREY, Mexico - The mayor of a wealthy suburb of this northern industrial city said Monday that he has sent his family to the United States for their own safety as he pursues his campaign against extortion and kidnapping gangs. Mayor Mauricio Fe
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A police official says more than a dozen militants opened fire on the house of an anti-Taliban mayor in northwestern Pakistan. Security guards repelled the attack, killing three assailants. Nabi Shah says some of the militants d
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A suicide car bomber struck near a busy livestock market in Pakistan's Peshawar city on Sunday, killing 12 people including a former Taliban sympathiser turned anti-militant mayor, police said. The Taliban claimed responsibilit
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who engineered a change in the city's term-limits law so he could run again and set a campaign financing record, narrowly won a third term on Tuesday, local media declared. Bloomberg, who ran as an independent, defe
MEXICO CITY - Mauricio Fernandez couldn't have been happier. Here he was, being sworn in again as mayor of one of northern Mexico's most exclusive communities, and he had wonderful news to share: Black Saldana, who apparently is the one who was ask
MEXICO CITY - Mauricio Fernandez couldn't have been happier. Here he was, being sworn in again as mayor of one of Mexico's most exclusive communities, and he had wonderful news to share: Black Saldana, who apparently is the one who was asking for m
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