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CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuela announced plans on Wednesday to take over the nation’s largest gold mine, operated by Canada’s Crystallex International Corp., as President Hugo Chavez gradually brings mining operations under state control. The Las Cristinas mine will operate under state control beginning next year and it will eventually help …

MEXICO CITY – The Mexican army on Friday announced that it has made the largest seizure of drug-cartel weapons in Mexico’s history. The cache of 540 rifles, 165 grenades, 500,000 rounds of ammunition and 14 sticks of TNT were seized on Thursday at a house in the city of Reynosa, …

SYDNEY, Australia – A court sentenced a Sydney woman Wednesday to 22 months periodic detention for what she said was the mercy killing of her longtime partner, an Alzheimer’s sufferer who had been rejected for a legal euthanasia in Switzerland. Shirley Justins, 60, was found guilty in June of the …