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United States returns 'Earth Monster' Olmec sculpture to Mexico
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico announced Friday that a huge 2,500-year-old Olmec stone sculpture has been returned from the United States. The almost six-foot-tall (two-meter) “Monster of the Earth” sculpture appears to represent the gaping maw of a monster that is big enough to...
Canadian airline WestJet starts to cancel flights as pilot strike looms, negotiations in stalemate
CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Canada’s second largest airline, WestJet, has started to cancel flights because its talks with a pilots’ union are at an impasse, the carrier said Thursday, jeopardizing travel plans for thousands of passengers ahead of a holiday weekend in Canada. Some...
Union for Canada's second biggest airline says pilots issue 72-hour strike notice
CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — The union for Canada’s second-biggest airline have issued a 72-hour strike notice to WestJet, and they warn the airline could be shut down before the weekend. The Air Line Pilots Association said in a statement late Monday that pilots plan to begin lawful...
End of Title 42 hasn't stopped migrants' push north to US from across the Americas
MEXICO CITY (AP) — For weeks, Solangel Contreras raced. The Venezuelan migrant and her family of 22 trudged through the dense jungles of the Darien Gap and hopped borders across Central America. They joined thousands of other migrants from across the Hemisphere in a...
Mexican president to hold call with Biden on immigration
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president said Monday he will talk with U.S. President Joe Biden by telephone on Tuesday about immigration and the fentanyl crisis. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the leaders will also discuss development programs to help stem the flow of...
250 evacuated as Volcano of Fire erupts in Guatemala
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — About 250 residents were evacuated Thursday from the slopes of Guatemala’s Volcano of Fire as red-hot rock and ash flowed down the slopes toward an area devastated by a deadly 2018 eruption. Firefighters said residents of the hamlet of Panimache were taken...
Mexico finds 8 sacrificial victims at Gulf coast pyramid
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Archaeologists in Mexico said Wednesday they have found 13 buried sets of human remains, eight of which appear to be young men who were apparently decapitated as part of a ceremony to consecrate a temple. Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History...
UN: As many as 400,000 migrants may cross Darien Gap in 2023
PANAMA CITY (AP) — Two U.N. groups said Thursday that the number of migrants crossing the dangerous Darien Gap between Colombia and Panama could soar to as many as 400,000 this year. That would represent a huge increase from the 250,000 migrants estimated to have crossed the...
Judge wants plan to protect humpback whales from fishery
A U.S. judge this week ruled that the National Marine Fisheries Service violated the law when it failed to develop a plan to prevent West Coast commercial sablefish fishermen from harming humpback whales. The Endangered Species Act requires the fisheries service to develop a plan to...
