MADRID – Spain’s Constitutional Court has unanimously declared a vote on secession by the powerful northeastern region of Catalonia last November as unconstitutional. The court ruled Tuesday that a law passed by the Catalan regional government allowing it to call such votes is also unconstitutional. The court had ordered the …
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JOHANNESBURG – A newborn was kidnapped from a Cape Town hospital in 1997. Her parents never gave up hope and, 17 years later, they have found her. She was living just a couple miles (kilometers) from her parents but, as the Cape Argus newspaper reports, the amazing discovery happened only …
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SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea’s military says North Korea has fired four short-range projectiles into the sea. Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that the projectiles with a range of 87 miles were fired Friday into waters off North Korea’s west coast. North Korea regularly test-fires …
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BOGOTA, Colombia – Navy officials in Colombia say they have seized 5.2 tons of cocaine on a ship off the country’s Pacific Coast. A navy statement issued Tuesday calls it the largest cocaine seizure in Colombia’s Pacific region in the past two years and says U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents …
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PANAMA CITY – The White House says a nuclear deal with Iran would require lifting sanctions against Tehran through a phased in process. That assertion counters the stance taken by Iran’s supreme leader and its president that sanctions would have to be lifted immediately after the deal’s implementation. White House …
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BRISBANE, Australia – A golfer who was bitten on the leg by a crocodile while playing at an Australian tourist resort said Tuesday he was partly at fault for hitting his ball in the water and disturbing the aggressive reptile while it sunbaked. John Lahiff, 75, had puncture wounds in …
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KINGSTON, Jamaica – A Jamaican judge has ruled that a teenager suspected of hoping to join Islamic extremists must remain in police custody. Defense lawyer Zara Lewis filed an application seeking the 16-year-old boy’s release from police detention. But the magistrate ordered Thursday that he remain in custody until a …
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TORONTO – Canada says it will issue a passport to Al-Jazeera English journalist Mohamed Fahmy, who remains in Egypt on bail while awaiting trial on terror charges. Kevin Menard, a spokesman for Canada’s immigration minister, said Monday they are “now in a position to issue Mr. Fahmy a passport despite …
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LIMA, Peru – Mourners carried a coffin holding a 61-year-old farmer through the streets of a southern Peru port city Thursday after the man became the first fatality of a monthlong protest against a Mexican-owned copper mining project. Agriculture Minister Juan Manuel Benites, the chief government negotiator in the dispute, …
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BOGOTA, Colombia – Colombia*s Health Ministry is recommending the immediate suspension of aerial spraying of a herbicide that*s the cornerstone of U.S.-financed efforts to wipe out cocaine crops. The ministry on Monday based its decision on the reclassification last month of glyphosate as a carcinogen by the World Health Organization’s …
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