Articles by sandrea

MEXICO CITY—Mexican immigration officials say they have returned 70 Guatemalan squatters to their home country. The Guatemalans had been living in tents on a Mexican communal farm near the border since August, after being evicted […] […]

ISLAMABAD—The U.S. gave money to a Pakistani Muslim group that organized anti-Taliban rallies, but which later demonstrated in support of an extremist who killed a leading liberal politician, the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan said Wednesday. […] […]

AN Iranian nuclear scientist has been killed and two people injured when a magnetic bomb attached to a car by a duo on a motorbike exploded outside a Tehran university, Iranian news agencies said. An […] […]

A manager at the Glenfiddich distillery has drowned in a giant vat of whisky. Brian Ettles, 46, allegedly threw himself into a 16ft wooden tank filled with water and yeast on Saturday night. Firemen and […] […]

Twenty dead in Pakistan bombing – A bomb exploded close to a bus in northwest Pakistan today, killing 20 people in the deadliest blast in the country in several months, a government official said. The motive […] […]

DUBLIN—A prosecutor says British anti-terror agents placed an electronic surveillance device on a car used by an alleged Irish Republican Army dissident charged with killing a Northern Ireland policeman. The claim came on Monday’s opening […] […]

AN American ex-Marine, who also holds Iranian citizenship, has been sentenced to death by an Iran judge for spying for the CIA, the Fars news agency reports. Amir Mirzai Hekmati, 28, was “sentenced to death […] […]

A Texas teenager who was deported to Colombia after claiming to be an illegal immigrant was reunited with her family in the United States yesterday. The 15-year-old girl is at the centre of an international […] […]