A brawl between rival drug gangs at an overcrowded penitentiary in northern Mexico turned into a riot Thursday, leaving 52 inmates dead and 12 injured in the country’s deadliest prison melee in years. No escapes were reported in the clash at the Topo Chico prison in Monterrey, said Nuevo Leo state Gov. Jaime Rodriguez. The …
A man with two handguns was detained Thursday at Disneyland Paris, Europe’s most-visited tourist attraction, police said. No one was hurt in the incident and the park remained open after the arrests. They come as France remains on edge and under a state of emergency after Islamic extremist attacks around Paris in November that killed …
The Zika virus is “is now spreading explosively” in the Americas, the head of the World Health Organization said Thursday, with another official estimating between 3 million to 4 million infections in the region over a 12-month period. “The level of concern is high, as is the level of uncertainty,” Dr. Margaret Chan, WHO’s director-general, …
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto tweeted today that the infamous drug lord known as “El Chapo” has been captured after months on the run. “Mission accomplished: We have him. I want to inform the Mexicans that Joaquin Guzman Loera has been detained,” the tweet, which is written in Spanish, states. A U.S. law enforcement official …
A total of 217 refugees and migrants have been rescued by Greek and EU authorities over the first weekend of the new year in four separate incidents, Greece’s coast guard says. Migrants, the majority of them refugees from Syria’s civil war, keep trying to enter the European Union despite the cold and the rough seas. …