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Gypsies take curious route through US to asylum

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 6th

By By WILSON RING and ROB GILLIESAssociated Press DERBY LINE, Vermont (AP) - A minivan with California license plates and a dozen passengers zipped across the border between Vermont and Quebec in October, heading north in a southbound lane unblocked by traffic. Border agents could only watch as

US, Mexico complete trial of flying deportees home

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 5th

SAN DIEGO (AP) - The U.S. and Mexican governments have completed a two-month program to fly deportees deep into Mexico, and the U.S. is looking to the new administration of Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on whether to continue the effort aimed at relieving overwhelmed Mexican border cities. U

Mississippi River dropping slower than expected

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 5th

By By JIM SALTER and JIM SUHRAssociated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) - A revised Mississippi River forecast offered a bit of a reprieve for shippers Wednesday, showing the water level isn't dropping as quickly as feared. Still, at least two large barge companies already are reducing their loads

Guatemalan police arrest software guru McAfee

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 5th

By By SONIA PEREZ-DIAZAssociated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - Software company founder John McAfee was arrested by police in Guatemala on Wednesday for entering the country illegally, hours after he said he would seek asylum in the Central American country. The anti-virus guru was detained at a

Father: Sick girl safe and being treated in Mexico

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 5th

By By BRIAN SKOLOFFAssociated Press PHOENIX (AP) - The mystery surrounding the whereabouts of a sick girl with leukemia deepened Wednesday after her father said his 11-year-old daughter is being treated in Mexico and authorities considered bringing child neglect charges against the family.

Mongolia finds China can be too close for comfort

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 5th

By By CHARLES HUTZLERAssociated Press TSOGTTSETSII, Mongolia (AP) - After years of testy debate, Mongolia broke ground this spring for a railroad that will haul coal across the pebbled Gobi desert to China, but with one costly condition. Citing national security, the government ordered the

Mongolia finds China can be too close for comfort

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 5th

Syrian civil war spills over into Lebanon

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 5th

By By BASSEM MROUEAssociated Press TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) - The families of Lebanese men killed in Syria last week say their relatives were more interested in nice clothes and vacations than fighting a civil war. Yet Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime branded them foreign jihadists - and

UN experts: Rwanda led rebels in capture of Goma

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 4th

By By EDITH M. LEDERERAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) - U.N. experts accused the Rwandan military of commanding Congolese rebel forces in their recent capture of the strategic city of Goma, saying a top Rwandan commander traveled to Congo to oversee the offensive and hundreds of Rwandan

Top Dublin criminal shot to death in gangland feud

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 4th

By By SHAWN POGATCHNIKAssociated Press DUBLIN (AP) - A senior figure in Ireland's criminal underworld was chased down the street and shot to death Tuesday near his Dublin home, two years after surviving a similar assassination bid, in the latest chapter of a long-running feud involving