BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Tens of thousands of Argentine teachers marched in the capital Wednesday as part of a nationwide strike challenging the administration of President Mauricio Macri. Unions for private and public school teachers are demanding a pay increase of 35 percent to compensate for Argentina’s high inflation ...
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London (AFP) – Four people were killed and 40 injured after being run over and stabbed in a lightning attack at the gates of British democracy on Wednesday attributed by police to “Islamist-related terrorism”. The attack unfolded across Westminster Bridge in the shadow of Big Ben, a towering landmark that ...
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican media executive suspected of stealing Tom Brady’s jersey went to the Super Bowl as a working journalist but spent the week collecting selfies and autographs from football greats and boasting to colleagues that he was there as a fan. Mexican journalists who were in ...
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Barry Bonds is back with the San Francisco Giants, just as the club had hoped. Bonds, who spent a one-season stint as Miami’s hitting coach last year before being fired, will serve as a special adviser to chief executive Larry Baer. The home run king was ...
Leer más »Canadian border authorities detaining record number of Mexicans
TORONTO (Reuters) – Canada’s border authorities detained more Mexicans in the first 67 days of 2017 than they did annually in any of the three previous years, according to statistics obtained by Reuters. The spike comes immediately after Canada’s federal government lifted its visa requirement for Mexican citizens in December. ...
Leer más »Giants re-sign DE Pierre-Paul for 4 years
EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey (AP) — The New York Giants are convinced star defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul is fully healed from a fireworks accident that severely damaged his right hand. They believe that so much that they have given JPP a four-year contract worth about $68 million. “This is where ...
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s state-run oil company says four people have died from an explosion at a fuel storage and distribution depot in the central state of Guanajuato. Petroleos Mexicanos says in a statement that one worker died Wednesday following the blast, while another worker and two private company ...
Leer más »Student ‘fascinated by firearms’ wounds four in French school shooting
GRASSE, France (Reuters) – A teenager opened fire at his high school in southeastern France on Thursday, wounding up to four people, in an attack apparently inspired by videos of U.S. mass shootings such as Columbine, officials said. The incident in Grasse, which does not appear to be linked to ...
Leer más »Federer beats Nadal, Djokovic loses at Indian Wells
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) — Roger Federer defeated Rafael Nadal 6-2, 6-3 at the BNP Paribas Open on Wednesday in a fourth-round match that saw the longtime rivals meeting much earlier in a tournament than usual. Federer broke Nadal four times in advancing to the quarterfinals in just over an ...
Leer más »Mexico presidential hopeful files complaint against Trump wall
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican presidential hopeful Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador filed a complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on Wednesday against U.S. President Donald Trump’s planned border wall and his administration’s treatment of immigrants. Lopez Obrador, a fiery leftist who has led recent polls for the 2018 ...
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