Articles Posted in the International Category
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WorldView: Iconic Spanish cafe under threat
Staff at Spain’s historic Cafe Gijon in Madrid face uncertainty as Madrid City Hall has put the establishment’s money-making terrace up for bids. What do you think? Leave comments below or share them with us on Twitter and Facebook.
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Book Review: Finding Fernanda by Erin Siegal
Meet Mildred, a shy single mother of three beautiful children with one on the way, living outside of Guatemala City. Then there is Betsy, a loving woman from Tennessee looking to add just one more child to her already swelling family of 3 biological and 4 internationally adopted children. Finding Fernanda is the exhausting quest [...]
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WorldView: Bono tours Machu Picchu
Irish rocker and U2 frontman, Bono, tours Machu Picchu’s ancient Incan ruins. Bono said he had not expected what he saw at Machu Picchu, according to This Week in Peru, and said he would love to come back to visit. “I love Machu Picchu,” Bono told Andina as reported by This Week in Peru. What [...]
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WorldView Video: Rio Brazil Fashion Week Recap
Watch this video recap from Rio Brazil’s Fashion Week: What do you think? Leave comments below or share them with us on Twitter and Facebook.
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Video: Texas teen, Jakadrien Turner, deported to Colombia Reunited With Her Family
15-year-old Jakadrien Turner, the Texas girl who was deported to South America, reunited with her family Friday night at DFW airport, WFAA-TV reported. Turner who had run away from home in Dallas was later deported after giving the name of an undocumented immigrant to Houston police when she was arrested for shoplifting. Jakadrien Lorece Turner [...]
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Texas teen, Jakadrien Turner, deported to Colombia headed back to US
15-year-old Jakadrien Turner, the Texas girl who was deported in May to South America, is headed back to the United States, the Associated Press reports. Turner who had run away from home in Dallas was later deported after giving the name of an undocumented immigrant to Houston police when she was arrested for shoplifting. Jakadrien [...]
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Video: Dallas Teen Missing since 2010 Was Mistakenly Deported to Colombia & Now Country Refuses to Release Her
UPDATE: Jakadrien is on her way home to the U.S. Please read the update. A Dallas teenager, missing since the fall of 2010, has been found after she was accidentally deported to Colombia and now the country is holding her in a detention facility and refuses to release the girl, who does not speak Spanish, [...]
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Chilean Supreme Court Orders La Tercera Newspaper to Pay Burn Victims in Exploding Churro Recipe Case
Chile’s Supreme Court has ordered the publisher of the daily newspaper, La Tercera, to pay $125,000 to 13 people who suffered burns from exploding churros while following a churro recipe published in the paper, the Associated Press reports. The announcement comes seven years since the readers burned themselves while trying out the recipe. The court [...]
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Embassy Dinner Celebration Series
Our own Julio Valeriano attended Tuesday night’s Embassy Dinner Celebration Series at Walter E. Washington Convention Center. Julio will have an update from the event including his conversation with the Secretary General of the Organization of America States, Jose Miguel Insulza, on this week’s DL podcast. You can Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or [...]
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Hide Your Kids, Hide Your Wife, Hide Your Husband, and if You Live in Rural Brazil, Hide Your Farm Animals!
A new study from Brazil has found that men who have sex with animals (SWA) have an increased risk of penile cancer. The study focused on men who live in rural areas of Brazil and 35 percent of the study participants have had sex with animals. The study, published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Sexual [...]
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Magnitude 5.7 Earthquake Near the Coast of Ecuador
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck near the coast of central Ecuador on Wednesday night at 8:57 p.m. EST. The perceived shaking would be light to moderate along the coast, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Earthquake-related terms were not trending on Twitter. The quake was located 116 miles WNW of Guayaquil and 236 miles WSW [...]
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Submit Questions: Lesbian Torture “Clinics” in Ecuador Video Discussion
Lesbians in Ecuador are getting locked up in “clinics” that they describe as torture camps with the goal of making them straight and on Wednesday Dos Lives will speak with three organizations in Ecuador who are working to shut down the more than 200 so-called “clinics” and we’ll share how you can get involved and [...]
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National’s Catcher Wilson Ramos Rescued, Safe in Venezuela
Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos has been rescued in Venezuela and is on the way home with police, his agent, Gustavo Mercado, told the Washington Post in a phone conversation. The Interior Minster of Venezuela called to tell the family around 9:50 p.m. East Coast time. Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami said on state television that [...]
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Kidnapped! Washington Nationals Catcher, Wilson Ramos, Abducted in his Native Venezuela
Professional baseball player and Nationals catcher, Wilson Ramos, has been kidnapped in his home country of Venezuela, according to multiple news reports. Ramos, 24, was approached by four armed men near his home in Santa Ines in central Carabobo state and taken away in a car, according to El Nacional, a Venezuelan newspaper as reported [...]
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WorldView Video: Miss Venezuela Crowned Miss World in London
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