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Mexican Army Detains Key Leader in Gulf Cartel

Mexican Army Detains Key Leader in Gulf Cartel


Mexican Army Detains Key Leader in Gulf Cartel

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 06:28 PM PDT

A top leader of Mexico's Gulf Cartel was captured Saturday in a military operation near the Texas border, the second major capture of a drug capo since President Enrique Pena Nieto took office last December.
    






DealBook: Hiring in China By JPMorgan Under Scrutiny

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 05:01 PM PDT

Authorities have opened a bribery investigation into whether JPMorgan Chase hired the children of powerful Chinese officials to help the bank win lucrative business in the booming nation.
    






Soldiers Storm a Mosque in Cairo, as Egyptian Leaders Struggle for Order

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 04:52 PM PDT

A standoff between supporters of the ousted president, Mohamed Morsi, and soldiers at a mosque ended with no reports of casualties, but it was emblematic of Egypt's wider chaos.
    






Roundup: Good Start for United; Dismal One for Arsenal

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 04:47 PM PDT

Manchester United opened the new Premier League season with an easy win over Swansea, but Arsenal lost its opening match to Aston Villa.
    

Bolt Completes a Double and Russian Women Break Through

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 04:31 PM PDT

Usain Bolt claimed a victory in the 200 meters and Russian women broke the American grip on the 4x400-meter relay at the world championships on Saturday.
    






Radio Station Employee Is Shot Dead in Somalia

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 03:24 PM PDT

A technician for the state-run broadcaster Radio Mogadishu was killed by two armed men outside his home on Saturday, and another man was executed for killing a journalist last year.
    






Sectarian Attacks Return With a Roar to Iraq, Rattling a Capital Already on Edge

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 03:08 PM PDT

The drastic surge in violence from car bombs and security sweeps has a lent a new sense of Balkanization to Baghdad.
    






Digital Diary: What’s Lost When Everything Is Recorded

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 02:30 PM PDT

Proust called the vanished past "lost time," but what would he make of a world where everything is stored forever? As we record everything we lose some things, too.
    






How American Hopes for a Deal in Egypt Were Undercut

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 02:27 PM PDT

Egypt's military crackdown has left President Obama in a no-win position: risk a partnership that has been the bedrock of Middle East peace, or stand by while allies try to hold on to power by mowing down opponents.
    






A Secret Race for Abandoned Nuclear Material

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 12:01 PM PDT

Over a period of 17 years, Russian and American scientists collaborated to remove hundreds of pounds of plutonium and highly enriched uranium from a nuclear test site in Kazakhstan.
    






Jamaica Fights to Break Grip of Violent Past

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 12:00 PM PDT

The island nation is emerging as a bright spot in the fight against drugs and organized crime that extends across the region.
    

Dispatch: Ta-Ta, London. Hello, Awesome.

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 11:30 AM PDT

Returning to the States after living in Britain for 17 years, a Times correspondent reflects on changes here and there.
    

Trash Into Gas, Efficiently? An Army Test May Tell

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 10:47 AM PDT

The United States Army will be the first to test a system by Sierra Energy to turn waste — whether banana peels, used syringes, old iPods, even raw sewage — into fuel.
    






DealBook: Alibaba Seen Buying U.S. E-Commerce Stake

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 10:14 AM PDT

Alibaba has agreed to pay about $75 million for a minority stake in ShopRunner, a retail shipping service run by Scott Thompson, who briefly served as Yahoo's chief executive, a person briefed on the matter said on Saturday.
    

Usain Bolt Wins Men's 200 Meters at Worlds

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 09:52 AM PDT

When Usain Bolt means business, he is still all alone out there.
    






Essay: Out of Track’s Doping Scandal, Redemption and Progress

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 09:03 AM PDT

Kelli White's positive test 10 years ago began a new era in track and field because she decided to help anti-doping organizations in their fight.
    

Shipping Continued After Computer Inspection System Failed at Meat Plants

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 08:46 AM PDT

A new computer system for meatpacking and processing plants shut down for two days in August, leading to the shipment of millions of pounds of meat that had not been tested for contaminants.
    

Divers Search Philippine Ferry for Dozens Missing

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 02:52 AM PDT

Dozens of people were missing and at least 31 were dead after a ferry collided with a cargo vessel near the central Philippine port of Cebu on Saturday.
    






Prominent Advocate Held in Southern China

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 01:21 AM PDT

Yang Maodong, better known by his pen name, Guo Feixiong, is the second well-known member of China's "rights defense" movement to be arrested in recent weeks.
    






News Analysis: Ties With Egypt Army Constrain Washington

Posted: 16 Aug 2013 05:35 PM PDT

With the myriad, though largely invisible, ways the Egyptian military assists United States interests in the region, Egyptian generals have some leverage in facing Washington and its pressure to end a crackdown.
    

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