Chloe Symons Correspondent (North America) This week the US authorities uncovered what is being called a ‘super-tunnel’ that connects Tijuana, Mexico to the nearby San Diego, Southern California, that has been built and used for the sole purpose of trafficking drugs across the border. The discovery was made by the San Diego Tunnel Task Force, which is made up of members of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), US Customs and Border Protection and […]
Alejandro Faini, Editor (North America) WASHINGTON – The Iraqi Prime Minister Al-Maliki visited the White House last Friday in order to discuss the raise of violence and other topics related with the Middle East with his American counterpart. Prime minister Al-Maliki requested the support of the US in order to fight back against the sectarian violence, specially the increasing number of car bombs linked to Al Qaeda in Iraq. Statistics show that the violence […]
Chang Mei Yen, Correspondent (North America) CANBERRA – Recent damaging documents have indicated that Australia is part of the US-led global spying network, using its embassies across Asia to intercept Asian calls and data. A document leaked by the former NSA analyst Edward J. Snowden suggested that Australia have run intelligence collection programmes from its embassies in China, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam and East Timor, and from its high commissions in Malaysia and Papua New […]
Alejandro Faini, Editor (North America) “The NSA revelations”, which became the most problematic aspect of the US foreign policy, has not finished yet. Once again, documents revealed the big magnitude of the NSA program, this time Spain is involved. Spaniard Press revealed last week that the NSA intercepted more than 60 million calls in Spanish territory between December and January of this year despite the rigid and strong privacy laws of the Spanish government. […]
Chloe Symons, Correspondent (North America) WASHINGTON — The ‘American Dream’ is something that people have been envisaging and aspiring to for decades, yet two American studies that were released this month suggest that for many Americans, the dream is becoming more unreachable as time goes by. Recent studies have shown that many Americans are now actually living on the poverty line, with the Southern Education Foundations research revealing that for the first time […]
Pawas Manandhar, Correspondent (North America) NEW YORK — In a recent interview with the New York Times, Edward Snowden, the whistle-blower and former National Security Agency contractor, has shared that he left all the NSA files in Hong Kong with fellow journalists and that “there’s a zero per cent chance the Russians or Chinese have received any documents.” Snowden, who is currently in asylum in Russia for a year, has been accused by the […]
Alejandro Faini, Editor (North America) OTTAWA — Last Friday the Canadian and EU representatives signed the beginning of the plea for a free trade treaty between the two governments. The free trade agreement, which still has to be accepted by the 28 state members of the European union and their 28 Parliaments, is one of the biggest and more influential for the two regions, after the time of austerity lived in the European Continent. […]
Chloe Symons, Correspondent (North America) NEW YORK — The incident that occurred within the Harlem suburb of New York, USA on September 29, has drawn global media attention. The incident that has received a huge amount of viral attention and is still receiving is of the now somewhat infamous biker gang attack on a Range Rover driver on the North bound West Side Highway in Harlem, New York. The attack that went viral after one of […]
Vicky Thorpe, Correspondent (North America) The International Committee of the Red Cross has called for games to penalise characters for committing war crimes in a move to “promote respect” for international humanitarian laws. The ICRC are hoping to work with game developers to integrate the implications of actions such as torture, harming civilians and attacking health/aid workers; all crimes covered in the 1949 Geneva Convention. “It is very difficult to make the difference between […]
Alejandro Faini, Editor (North America) MEXICO CITY — Mexico has struggled during the past seven years against the control and violence cause by the constant rivalry between the different criminal bands, which have settled in Mexico to control the drug traffic to the US. During the last couple of years, the situation has escalate even more affecting now the different mayors and city council around the Mexican territory. The northern states of Mexico have […]
