The North Fort Myers Animal Refuge Center was recently awarded funds by a prominent Southwest Florida animal welfare organization, and is planning several special events.The 2nd Annual Angel Come Home/Living Legacy For Domestic Animals event was recently held in Naples honoring 11 Southwest ...
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Chile confirmed its first two cases of swine flu Sunday in two women who arrived from the Dominican Republic.The women, ages 25 and 32, are hospitalized and in good condition, Health Minister Alvaro Erazo said.They arrived early Saturday from the Dominican resort of Punta ...
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) - Jamaican authorities say they have seized 165 pounds (75 kilograms) pounds of cocaine and 175 pounds (79 kilograms) of compressed marijuana at Montego Bay's airport.Sgt. Jubert Llewellyn says the drugs were found in two suitcases left unclaimed on a luggage cart at ...
CAIRO (AP) - A powerful Darfur rebel group says it seized control of a strategic town in northern Darfur that the Sudanese army was using as a base.Ahmed Hussein, a spokesman for the Justice and Equality Movement, says rebels took control of Kornoi town Saturday.The joint U.N.-African Union ...
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - Thousands of Guatemalans protested Sunday to demand the president resign over accusations that he ordered a lawyer killed, a scandal threatening the rule of the country's first leftist leader more than 50 years.
MORELIA, Mexico (AP) - Gunmen killed nine people in three separate attacks in the Mexico's drug-plagued western state of Michoacan, authorities said Sunday.The state attorney general's office said gunmen broke into a ranch in a rural area and shot dead five employees, along with four horses and ...
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be looking to build a coalition against Iran and exchange ideas on advancing Middle East peace negotiations when he visits Egypt Monday on his first trip to the Arab world since he took office.Netanyahu is hoping to find some ...
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) - Iceland's new government said Sunday it will ask parliament to vote on whether the recession-hit country should start membership talks with the European Union.Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir said a bill authorizing accession talks would be introduced when ...
BEIJING (AP) - More than 70 Mexican travelers have been quarantined in hospitals and hotels in China as part of sweeping anti-swine flu measures, the country's ambassador to Beijing said Sunday.Mexicans were being asked to identify themselves on arriving flights and isolated from other ...
VIENNA (AP) - Police in Vienna arrested a man suspected of slipping drugs into drinks at a crowded bar Sunday, causing five people to collapse. Authorities said all five victims were hospitalized in life-threatening condition.Investigators said they were still trying to determine a motive for ...
