MONTERREY, Mexico - Masked gunmen opened fire and tossed a grenade at a Mexican television station as it aired its nightly newscast Tuesday, leaving behind a message warning the station about its coverage of drug gangs. No injuries were reported in the assault on the Televisa network's studio in the northern city of Monterrey. It was the latest in a series of attacks on journalists covering drug cartels in Mexico. Televisa Monterrey director Francisco Cobo said the masked gunmen arrived in...

An Argentine judge on Tuesday seized a property belonging to a former Iranian diplomat who is sought on charges related to the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center. The judicial order stems from a million-dollar lawsuit for damages by a survivor of the bombing, which killed 85 people and wounded more than 200 others, Prosecutor Alberto Nisman told Reuters. Argentina has formally accused Iran of masterminding the attack and is seeking the arrest of high-ranking Iranian government...

PARIS: French anti-terrorism police on Monday arrested the suspected military chief of the Basque separatist group ETA, just weeks after capturing his alleged predecessor "Txeroki," the interior ministry said. The suspect was picked up on a street in the village of Gerde in southwest France around 6:00 pm (1700 GMT) together with two other ETA suspects. They were carrying revolvers and fake documents. French police moved in on the three men after receiving a tip-off from...

MEXICO CITY: A Mexican national was among the victims of an attack by militants on a Jewish cultural center in Mumbai, the Mexican Foreign Ministry announced on Saturday. The ministry said in a statement that the Mexican woman, who died in the attack, "was inside the center." It said the Mexican Embassy in India was still working to identify the victim. Source:

The alleged presence of Iranian Revolutionary Guards in Nicaragua without "justification" has caused tensions within the Israeli community in the country. According to a report by the Jewish News Agency (JNA), the arrival of 30 Iranian Revolutionary Guards has be confirmed. Gerald Smith, the president of the Israeli Congregation of Nicaragua, disclosed the revolutionay guards' arrival in nicaragua and their failure to register with the immigration authorities to the JNA. ...

Israeli concern about Teheran's inroads into Latin America emerged at a meeting Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni held with her visiting El Salvadoran counterpart on Tuesday, during which she warned that South America was fast becoming a platform for spreading Iranian ideology. Iran is searching for openings, and countries it can penetrate, to compensate for the vulnerability created by the [economic] sanctions [against it]," Livni told Marisol Argueta de Barillas. "We are witness to...

Paris, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- The leader of Spain's Basque separatist group ETA Garikoitz Aspiazu Rubina has been arrested in France, French and Spanish authorities announced on Monday. Aspiazu Rubina, 35, known by alias "Txeroki" or "Cherokee", was captured in Cauterets, a spa and ski resort in the Pyrenees in France, near Spain's autonomous Basque region. An unidentified woman was also detained. Aspiazu Rubina has been the chief of ETA military units for several years. He...

BUENOS AIRES (JTA) -- Former Argentine officials accused of blocking the investigation into the AMIA bombing will testify before a federal judge. Ex-president Carlos Menem is among seven ex-officials who are being called on to testify in the coming days by Ariel Lijo. Others among the seven former officials on Lijo’s list are intelligence service office head Hugo Anzorregui and the judge in charge of the case, Juan Jose Galeano. Lijo is trying to find out if the officials backed away...

MEXICO CITY - A conversation between pilots and the control tower gave no hint that anything was wrong moments before a plane carrying Mexico's second-most-powerful official suddenly dived into rush-hour traffic. The death of Interior Secretary Juan Camilo Mourino was a serious setback for Mexico's U.S.-backed fight against drug smuggling. He was President Felipe Calderon's most trusted confidante as the government pursues a hardline strategy that has brought down top drug kingpins but has...

U.S. officials have warned of a real danger Islamist extremists could form alliances with wealthy and powerful Latin American drug lords to launch new terrorist attacks against the United States. According to recent remarks made by Under Secretary of Intelligence and Analysis in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Charles Allen, at a two-day conference hosted by SOUTHCOM and the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA); “The threat of ties between criminal...