Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Daily Headlines: March 11, 2009

* Mexico: Visiting French President Nicolas Sarkozy pledged counternarcotics aid to Mexico, while police suspect that drug gangs were behind the decapitations of five men whose heads were stuffed in ice coolers.

* Costa Rica: According to official data over 4000 girls between the ages of 10 and 14 became pregnant between 1997 and 2007. This stands in sharp contrast to the 22 underage fathers they identified over the same period.

* Chile: During his royal visit to Chile, Britain’s Prince Charles insisted that “we must act now" on the issue of climate change.

* Venezuela: Authorities dismantled seven drug labs located near the country’s border with Colombia.

Image- CNN “(Police in Jalisco, Mexico, discovered five heads beside a road to Guadalajara on Tuesday morning.).”
Online Sources- BBC News, Xinhua, LAHT, AFP

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