Efforts by the British to help citizens of the Turks and Caicos Islands recover thousands of acres of government land illegally sold in a corruption scheme are showing progress, said the law firm leading the program.
Laurence Harris, who is ...
PARIS -- International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde is to face a second day of questioning on Friday in a French court over her role in a large payout to a businessman in 2008, when she was France's finance minister.
Lagarde arranged ...
WASHINGTON -- At the Colombian Embassy in Washington, Ambassador Carlos Urrutia says there's no doubt that his country's trade deal with the U.S. has paid off: Colombian businesses are sending more socks and cosmetics to California, beet sugar to ...
WASHINGTON -- Marijuana is the drug most often linked to crime in the United States, the U.S. drug czar said Thursday, dismissing calls for legalization as a "bumper-sticker approach" that should be avoided.
Gil Kerlikowske, the White House ...
WASHINGTON -- A top Mexican drug cartel commander pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court in the 2011 ambush attack south of the border that left one American agent dead and a second injured, and three other defendants also admitted their ...
Cubans appear to be growing more optimistic about President Raul Castro's economic reforms, and large majorities favor direct elections of their president but say the government is repressive, according to a poll made public Thursday.
The survey ...