A global hunt for swine flu turned up new infections all around the world on Tuesday, and governments warned people to stay away from Mexico.
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/ 1 December 2006
Felipe Calderon took over as Mexico’s president on Friday and pleaded for an end to months of unrest over his narrow election win, but a huge brawl erupted in Congress where leftist opponents vowed to block him from taking the formal oath of office.
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/ 6 November 2006
Nicaraguans voted in huge numbers for a new president on Sunday with former Marxist guerrilla Daniel Ortega close to returning to power despite opposition from the United States. Sixteen years after he was thrown out of office by voters tired of a civil war with US-backed Contra rebels, the mustachioed Sandinista leader was ahead of his conservative rivals.