'Cartel Land' Offers Front Row Seat to US-Mexico Drug Warby webdesk@voanews.com (Penelope Poulou) Sunday August 23rd, 2015 at 12:23 PM
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'Cartel Land' Offers Front Row Seat to US-Mexico Drug Warby webdesk@voanews.com (Penelope Poulou)
Matthew Heineman’s documentary Cartel Land is made of the stuff we watch in Western movies. Only, this narrative is for real. Two vigilante groups, one on the American side of the Arizona border, the other in Mexico, fight a common enemy: drug cartels. Is their war a righteous one? Matthew Heineman, who was embedded with both groups to film the documentary, offers a first-hand account. In the middle of the night, methamphetamine cooks get to work in the desert in the western Mexican...
Many Ebola Survivors Struggling With Ailmentsby webdesk@voanews.com (Associated Press)
Lingering health problems afflicting many of the roughly 13,000 Ebola survivors have galvanized global and local health officials to find out how widespread the ailments are, and how to remedy them. The World Health Organization calls it an emergency within an emergency. Many of the survivors have vision and hearing issues. Some others experience physical and emotional pains, fatigue and other problems. The medical community is negotiating uncharted waters as it tries to measure the...
Typhoon Goni Leaves 15 Dead in Philippinesby webdesk@voanews.com (Associated Press)
Typhoon Goni blew out of the northern Philippines on Sunday after leaving at least 15 people dead and several others missing, including a dozen miners whose work camps were buried by a huge mudslide in a mountain village, officials said. Goni was last tracked at sea about 430 kilometers (267 miles) northeast of Basco town in Batanes province on the archipelago's northernmost tip. It has sustained winds of 140 kilometers (87 miles) per hour and gusts of up to 170 kph (105 mph) and was...
Talks aimed at restarting a stalled dialogue between India and Pakistan were called off after Pakistan said its delegation wouldn’t attend.
Ieng Thirith, a French-educated Shakespeare scholar, was one of the most powerful women in Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge government, allegedly helping to plan and carry out the regime’s genocidal policies in the 1970s.
Kurdish Mayors In Turkey Arrested For Supporting Self-Ruleby support@pangea-cms.com (RFE/RL)
A Turkish court on August 23 remanded in custody three mayors from Kurdish-dominated southeastern Turkey on charges of trying to destroy national unity by allegedly supporting calls for Kurdish self-rule in the region.
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What Next For The Islamic Movement Of Uzbekistan?by support@pangea-cms.com (Bruce Pannier)
In early August, news broke that Usmon Ghazi, the current leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), had pledged the Central Asian militant group's allegiance to Islamic State. In an attempt to shed some light on the IMU's current situation, RFE/RL’s Turkmen Service assembled a panel to discuss this development, Ghazi's leadership of the movement, and what it could mean for the IMU’s future.
LONDON (Reuters) - The death toll from the crash of a jet aircraft onto a busy road near an airshow in southern England on Saturday is thought to have risen to 11, the BBC reported on Sunday.
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders is making the billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch the face of a "corrupted" political and economic system that the Vermont senator wants to upend....
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- The United Arab Emirates said Sunday that its military freed a British hostage held by al-Qaida in Yemen who had been kidnapped 18 months ago while working as a petroleum engineer in the war-torn country....
British foreign secretary reopens embassy in Tehranby By ALI AKBAR DAREINI
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond reopened the British Embassy in Tehran on Sunday, nearly four years after it was closed following an attack by hard-liners, Iranian state TV reported....
Thousands of migrants head closer to EU from Macedoniaby By DUSAN STOJANOVIC
GEVGELIJA, Macedonia (AP) -- Thousands of tired and beleaguered migrants - mostly Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans fleeing conflict - boarded trains and buses in Macedonia that took them one step closer to the European Union on Sunday, a day after they stormed past police trying to block them from entering the country from Greece....
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EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) -- President Barack Obama may have finally shed his summer curse - just in time for a daunting fall....
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - The last remaining ministers of Guatemalan President Otto Perez's original cabinet said on Saturday they could no longer work in his government after prosecutors sought to impeach him for corruption, piling pressure on the head of state to resign.
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - Fourteen members of one of El Salvador's most powerful street gangs were killed in a prison on Saturday in what appeared to be an internal gang purge, authorities said.
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov has fired the country's energy minister for shortcomings in his work
The rector of the Assumption Church in Kazakhstan's commercial capital Almaty has ascended one of Central Asia highest peaks – Mount Abu Ali inb Sina (formerly Lenin Peak)
The Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) has begun a six-day military exercise near the border of Estonia.
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Iran, Britain Reopen Embassiesby support@pangea-cms.com (RFE/RL)
Britain's Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has reopened the British embassy in Tehran, four years after Iranian protesters stormed the building and forced its closure.
Former Belarusian presidential candidate Mikalay Statkevich was released from prison after being held for nearly five years. President Alyaksandr Lukashenka pardoned him and five others on August 22. All were regarded by rights organizations as political prisoners. (RFE/RL's Belarus Service)
Hundreds of migrants have crossed unhindered from Greece into Macedonia on August 23 after overwhelmed security forces appeared to abandon their efforts to stem the flow through the Balkans to Western Europe after days of chaos and confrontation.
French President Francois Hollande has offered his "heartfelt thanks" to U.S. President Barack Obama for what the Elysee said was "exemplary conduct" shown by three U.S. citizens who overpowered a suspected Islamic militant on a crowded Amsterdam-Paris train.
The U.S. firm DynCorp International has confirmed that its employees were targeted in a suicide car bomb attack in Kabul that killed 12 people, including three U.S. contractors, and wounded at least 60 people. Most of those killed and wounded in the August 22 attack were Afghan civilians. The suicide attack outside a hospital on a residential street during rush hour, with the attacker driving an explosives-laden car towards an armored truck owned by DynCorp that was part of a NATO convoy. One U.S. contractor died when the bomb exploded and two others died later from their injuries. DynCorp is a U.S. company that provides training, security, and aviation maintenance to the NATO mission and Afghanistan's military. Four U.S. employees of DynCorp were killed in a similar suicide attack in Kabul in 2013. Based on reporting by AP, Reuters, and AFP
Thousands of migrants have crossed unhindered from Greece into Macedonia on August 23 after overwhelmed security forces appeared to abandon their efforts to stem the flow through the Balkans to Western Europe after days of chaos and confrontation. Many of the migrants boarded trains and buses that would take them to the Serbian border. Macedonia declared a state of emergency on August 19 and sealed its southern frontier to migrants who had been pouring across at a rate of 2,000 per day on their way to Serbia then Hungary and the European Union’s visa free Schengen zone.
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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has called on all political forces in the country to support his plans for constitutional change aimed at ending a separatist conflict in the east and defeating what he called the "Russian aggressor."
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese police fired tear gas and water cannon and shot in the air to try to disperse thousands of protesters in Beirut calling on the government to step down for mishandling a dispute which left rubbish uncollected in the streets for weeks.
KUWAIT (Reuters) - In a signal of the most striking thaw in the Western ties with Iran for over a decade, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond will reopen the British embassy in Tehran nearly four years since protesters ransacked the elegant ambassadorial residence and burned the Union Jack.
KABUL (Reuters) - Three U.S. civilian contractors were among those killed by a car bomb that targeted their NATO convoy, the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan said, making the attack that killed 12 people one of the most lethal to target U.S. citizens in recent years.
PARIS/MADRID, France (Reuters) - Fingerprint evidence shows that the gunman overpowered by passengers on a train in France is a Morrocan known to European authorities as a suspected Islamist militant, according to a source familiar with the case.
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called on all political forces in the country on Sunday to rally behind his plans for constitutional change aimed at ending a separatist conflict in the east and defeating what he termed the "Russian aggressor".
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DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Kurdish militants armed with assault rifles attacked a hydroelectric power station near the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir on Sunday, killing a soldier and wounding three others, security sources said.
Mei Xang, one of America's most famous zoo animals, described as a "great mother" after giving birth to cub Saturday
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Brussels station is close to where Charlie Hebdo gunmen bought their weapons
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Tiny town boasts only 30,000 people, yet two dozen local men have gone to fight jihad in Iraq and Syria
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French police were reportedly warned more than a year ago about the radical views of Ayoub El-Khazzani, the 26-year-old Moroccan who attempted a massacre on a high-speed train
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Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond announces Briton 'safe and well' and 'receiving support' from British government officials after release in Yemen
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Embassy has grand reopening four years after being wrecked by Iranian mob - but refurbishment still leaves anti-British graffiti intact
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Attacker armed with Kalashnikov shouted "give me back my gun" as he was foiled by three Americans, including two off-duty servicemen - follow live updates
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Proximity to homes adds to concerns over lax regulation of the sector
Gunman was known to security agencies and moved between Spain, France and Middle East
Upsurge in fighting cripples economy of region on cusp of recovery
A British tourist has been rescued in the Australian outback after rescue workers spotted his SOS message on a river bank.
Geoff Keys, 63, had tried to take a shortcut back to his camp when he got lost in the 900 square mile Jardine National park in north Queensland, last month and ended up spending two days sleeping rough without food or footwear.
Writing in his blog, Mr Keys told how on the first day he wandered around in the bush until 2am, barefoot, wearing only swimming trunks, T-shirt and hat, when he decided to sleep until daylight.
The retired AA mechanic spent the following day walking through rivers in 30C heat, hearing helicopters overhead and guessing they were searching for him.
He wrote: “It meant that I had been reported missing by my friends and also brought home to me what a terrible night they must have had, wondering where I was.”
Mr Keys is winched to safety by the SAR helicopter (Qld Police)
It was then that Mr Keys had the idea of writing SOS message "HELP 2807" with an arrow pointing downstream in the sand to attract the attention of the search party.
But after three more hours walking in the bush, and darkness approaching, he had to stop and sleep another night alone.
It was not until lunchtime the following day that he heard the search helicopter again, carrying the area's search and rescue coordinator Senior Constable Brad Foat, who spotted the message.
Mr Foat said, “I was stoked as this was the first good clue we had.
"I made a decision to scout a little further before returning to reassign all the helicopters.
"After we travelled another 6km I asked the pilot to turn back so I could head back to the drawing board, when out of the blue we spotted our missing man standing in the middle of the creek, waving at us."
Mr Keys said: "I leapt off the bank into the creek but by the time I’d done so it had gone. I stood in midstream, yelling at the pilot to come back.
Mr Keys with Snr Constable Brad Foat
"He circled me once while I jumped up and down waving my hat.
"He came around again while I continued to jump up and down like a lunatic and this time someone waved to me out of the window. My ordeal was over."
Mr Keys was so exhausted, however, that he could barely move and had to be winched from the water, in a rescue that police say cost $800,000 (£370,000).
He was taken to hospital with exhaustion, dehydration, and deep cuts to his feet.
He added: "It’s safe to say that I’m very grateful to everyone involved in my rescue.
"Their skill and professionalism is incredible. I feel stupid but lucky."
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A 63-year-old is saved after two days in the Australian outback after rescuers spotted his plea for help scrawled in the sand.
A webcam captures Mei Xiang, female giant panda, giving birth at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington. The 17-year-old panda gave birth to two cubs on Saturday, having been artificially inseminated with sperm from two male pandas.The Smithsonian is one of four zoos in the US to have pandas, which are on loan from China
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The Italian coastguard has released video of 111 migrants being rescued on Saturday, just one of the 22 rescue operations carried out in the Mediterranean. The footage showed the migrants, including 57 men and 54 women, waving as coast guard officers approached them, with some holding up the deflated front of their rubber dinghy. Italy’s coastguard says it coordinated the rescue of about 3,000 migrants in the Mediterranean on Saturday
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Hundreds of migrants cross from Greece into Macedonia on Sunday after Macedonian security forces appeared to abandon a bid to seal the border, following days of confrontation. Large groups of migrants can be seen walking across the border to Gevgelija train stations where they wait to board trains northwards to Serbia. Macedonia had declared a state of emergency on Thursday and sealed its southern frontier, using riot police and tear gas in an attempt to drive back crowds, but the police lines were overwhelmed on Saturday
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British foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, watches on while the union jack is raised as he officially reopens the British embassy in Tehran for first time since 2011. Hammond says there is currently a ‘deficit of trust’ in British-Iranian relations but says the re-opening of their respective embassies shows the two countries have chosen to discuss their issues constructively. Hammond is due to meet his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif later on Sunday and the president, Hassan Rouhani, on Monday morning
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Matthew Heineman’s documentary Cartel Land is made of the stuff we watch in Western movies. Only, this narrative is for real. Two vigilante groups, one in the United States, the other in Mexico, fight a common enemy: drug cartels. VOA’s Penelope Poulou has more.
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