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...cost of success appears to have been too much for several local Mexican police chiefs, who, according to U.S. officials, have recently shown up at U.S. border checkpoints requesting political asylum in the U.S. And they clearly have reason to be fearful: Already, 10 of the 17 police officers named on a list nailed by narcos to the door of the town hall in the border town of Juarez in January have been murdered...
...pies to poor Londoners, will run on the Loeb Mainstage through this Saturday. A number of revivals have drastically changed the feel of “Todd,” including Tim Burton’s blood-soaked 2007 movie and a 2005 Broadway production, set in an insane asylum, in which the actors played their own instruments on stage. While each of these versions exaggerated the characters’ derangement and London’s grittiness, the HRDC production seeks to return to the original feel of the script. “We wanted to try to take what...
...gain access to the ill and emaciated Betancourt, 46, who was abducted in 2002. She "is in danger of imminent death," Sarkozy warned in a French TV broadcast aired in Colombia. "You who lead the FARC, you have a rendezvous with history... Free Ingrid Betancourt." He has promised asylum for scores of imprisoned rebels whom Uribe now says he'll release in exchange for Betancourt. But since Uribe - a key U.S. ally whose father was killed by the FARC in 1983 - sent his army across the Ecuadorian border last month to kill the group's No. 2 comandante, Raul Reyes...
...Percentage of refugees living in Greece who have been granted asylum. The country has been criticized by the U.N. for failing to provide interpreters and legal aid for the remaining...
...Percentage of refugees living in Sweden who have been granted asylum, the highest rate in Europe...