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Millions of Dollars Donated for Malaria Drugs Stolen
By not in system - AOL NewsLONDON -- A leading global health fund believes millions of dollars worth of its donated malaria drugs have been stolen in recent years - perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars worth - vastly exceeding levels of theft previously suspected, according to confidential documents obtained by The Associated Press. The internal investigation by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria comes two months into a new anti-corruption program that the fund launched after an AP report detailing fraud in their grants attracted intense scrutiny from donors. In internal documents detailing ...
Study: Indoor Marijuana Cultivation Bad for the Environment [VIDEO]
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Officers Arrested Over Mexico Mass Graves; Death Toll Climbs to 145
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsFederal authorities have pulled 23 more corpses from a mass grave near the town of San Fernando in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, bringing the death toll to 145 in a mass killing that has managed to shock even the violence-hardened residents of northeastern Mexico. Sixteen police officers were arrested there Thursday for allegedly serving as accomplices to members of a drug cartel suspected in the slayings, the federal attorney general said in a statement. Twenty-three of the 145 victims found so far were killed at least a month before drug gangs began kidnapping bus passengers along a ...
Mexican Authorities Find Six More Bodies in Border Pits
By not in system - AOL NewsMEXICO CITY -- Mexican investigators found a clandestine grave with six bodies in Tamaulipas state, bringing to 122 the number of bodies found in pits in a region near the U.S. border that is wracked by battling drug cartels, authorities said Wednesday. Tamaulipas state Interior Secretary Morelos Canseco said investigators are searching for more bodies at the pit found late Tuesday. The bodies were taken to a morgue in Matamoros, across the border from Brownsville, Texas. Hours earlier, investigators in the Pacific coast state of Sinaloa found at least a dozen skeletal remains in a series of ...
Mexican Convicted of Murdering Border Patrol Agent
By not in system - AOL NewsSAN DIEGO - Jesus Navarro eluded U.S. authorities even before he became the prime suspect in the 2008 killing of a Border Patrol agent. Their long efforts to get the Mexican man convicted in a U.S. court paid off Tuesday when a federal jury deliberated only two hours to find him guilty of murdering Border Patrol Agent Luis Aguilar at a popular southeastern California campground. Jurors rejected testimony by Navarro that he wasn't even in the marijuana-filled Hummer that struck and killed Aguilar at the Imperial Sand Dunes. Navarro also said he was forced to confess to the crime under ...
US Warns Travelers After 4 More Mass Graves Found in Mexico
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsIn Mexico, another grisly find. Mexican authorities have uncovered four more mass graves in the northern border state of Tamaulipas, where the country's violent drug cartels have begun abducting passengers on buses in the area, including at least one U.S. citizen. The U.S. State Department issued a new warning against travel in Tamaulipas after 16 more bodies were found there over the weekend, raising the death toll in the string of abductions in the region to 88. U.S. citizens are discouraged from traveling in three Mexican states. "The United States Consulates General in Matamoros, Nuevo ...
Gunmen Kill 5 at Mexican Border Bar
By not in system - AOL NewsMEXICO CITY - Gunmen shot up a bar and then threw in fire bombs, killing three men and two women in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, an official said Saturday. The deaths came a day after a shooting attack on another bar in the city caused 10 deaths. A motive had not been determined and it was unclear if the victims died of bullet wounds, burns or smoke inhalation, Chihuahua state prosecutors' spokesman Arturo Sandoval said. He said the bodies were charred by the fire started by the gasoline bombs at the Barritas bar late Friday Raymundo Ruiz, AP People watch as ...
Mexican Cartels: Are They 'Foreign Terrorist Organizations'? [VIDEO]
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FDA Clears First Melanoma Drug to Extend Life
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration has approved a breakthrough cancer medication from Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. that researchers have heralded as the first drug to prolong the lives of patients with melanoma. The federal health agency approved the injectable drug, called Yervoy, for late-stage or metastatic melanoma. The agency has only approved two other drugs for advanced melanoma, the last of which was cleared more than 13 years ago. Neither drug has been shown to significantly extend patient lives. Mel Evans, AP The FDA has approved a cancer medication from ...
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