Wikimedia Commons Beijing, Mar 10 (EFE).- "The 33," the story of the Chilean miners who were trapped underground for more than two months, has arrived in Chinese theaters along with one of the capsules used to save them. The capsule, painted in the blue, red and white colors of the Chilean flag, was made by the Chilean navy to rescue the miners and will be on display in Beijing. "The 33,...

ISIS fighters in Iraq. (Wikimedia Commons) By Katherine Gypson WASHINGTON (VOA) Counterterrorism experts in Germany and other countries are studying tens of thousands of data files allegedly stolen from the Islamic State group, said to contain detailed personal information about terrorist recruits. Britain's Sky News said it acquired the information from a disillusioned Islamic State def...

Mexico City, Mar 9 (EFE).- Mexican authorities say they have located a container of industrial radioactive material that was stolen in late February. The vehicle used to transport the container of Iridium-192 - stolen on Feb. 27 in San Juan del Rio, a city in Queretaro state - was found in the neighboring state of Mexico, Luis Felipe Puente, who heads up the Government Secretariat's national em...

Wikimedia Commons Asuncion, Mar 8 (EFE).- Paraguayan media reported Tuesday that Madeleine McCann, the British girl who suddenly went missing in Portugal in 2007, has been found in the South American nation, though the Asuncion office of Interpol told EFE they know nothing about the private investigator said to have tracked down the girl. The case of the missing girl caused a stir in the me...

"Rolling Stones 26" by Gorupdebesanez - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons Havana, Mar 8 (EFE).- Preparing the stage for the Rolling Stones' March 25 free concert in the Cuban capital is now underway at Havana's Ciudad Deportiva, where some 200,000 fans of the British band are expected to gather for the historic show. Members of the multinational team building the backstage t...

Wikimedia Commons By Ana Mengotti Miami, Mar 8 (EFE).- DeBary, Florida Mayor Clint Johnson wants to know what it's like to be a "rafter" and so he plans to fly to Cuba in April but then return on a raft he will build on the island. "Those people deserve to have their story told," he told EFE in a telephone interview from DeBary, a city of fewer than 20,000 located west of Daytona Beach. ...

(FILE / White House photo) //TRW// HAVANA (Reuters, with additional reporting by The Costa Rica Star) Cuba said it would welcome President Barack Obama to Havana later this month, but the Communist government had no intention of changing its policies in exchange for normal relations with the United States. In a long editorial on Wednesday in Communist Party newspaper Granma and other off...

Source: Flickr Commons Lima, Mar 8 (EFE).- Residents of an indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon are holding eight state employees hostage in order to pressure the government into including their village in the state of emergency declared following oil spills in the Loreto region. An air force helicopter carrying provisions and workers of state oil company Petroperu and the OEFA envir...

By Carol Blair Vaughn John Ward Flickr Commons The Godfather of Email Has Died Ray Tomlinson, known worldwide as the inventor of email, has died of a reported heart attack at the age of 74.  Tomlinson leaves behind a wife and two children – but more famously – a method for all of us living outside our home countries to communicate with each other any time, day or night: email.   ...

FILE - Malaysia's transport minister Liow Tiong Lai(C) speaks at a news conference about debris found on a beach in Mozambique that may be from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, March 3, 2016. (Photo: Reuters OMX) //TRW// By Steven Herman BANGKOK (VOA) Two years to the day after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing, an interim statement issued about ...

Wikimedia Commons International Sports Desk, Mar 7 (EFE; odds by IDSca.com).- Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova said Monday in Los Angeles that she tested positive for the banned substance Meldonium at the Australian Open earlier this year. The 28-year-old Sharapova - winner of five Grand Slam titles, 35 singles titles and currently ranked 7th in the world - discussed the failed doping te...

Mexico City, Mar 7 (EFE).- Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto on Monday lamented and condemned remarks on immigration and Mexico by Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump, saying that they "hurt" bilateral relations. "I condemn these kinds of statements. It seems to me they hurt a relationship that Mexico has sought with the United States of bridges, of dialogue, of rapprochement, of se...

Wikimedia Commons By Britt Nelson   Sunday’s night Democratic debate held in water-scandal ridden Flint, Michigan between Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders had both candidates calling for the immediate resignation of Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder.   Lead poisoning in Flint’s water supply had been denied for 2 years, but tests showed children and others throughout the mo...

Former Brazilian President Lula with football star Ronaldinho. Wikimedia Commons Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, Mar 5 (EFE).- Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff visited her political mentor and predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, at his apartment in this southeastern city a day after he was detained for questioning as part of the probe into a massive corruption scheme centered on state-con...

Guatemala Police. Wikimedia Commons Guatemala City, Mar 6 (EFE).- A bomb evidently triggered by a cellphone exploded on a public bus in Guatemala, killing at least one person and injurin 17 on Sunday. The incident occurred early Sunday morning in San Jose Pinula, a town located 22 kilometers (14 miles) from the capital. Investigators with the National Civil Police and the Public Ministry...

Zinedine Zidane. Wikimedia Commons Madrid, Mar 5 (EFE; odds by IDSca.com).- Cristiano Ronaldo scored four times in Real Madrid's 7-1 rout of Celta Vigo here Saturday, a win that serves as a confidence-booster ahead of the Blancos' upcoming Champions League clash against Roma. The host squad began threatening the Celta Vigo goal in earnest late in the first half and finally opened the scorin...

Washington, Mar 3 (EFE).- President Barack Obama on Thursday extended for one year an executive order declaring the situation in Venezuela a threat to U.S. national security, saying conditions there had not improved and that the country's leftist-led government was continuing to erode human rights guarantees. The Obama administration first issued the executive order against crisis-hit Venezuela...

Source: SpaceX Twitter Washington, Mar 5 (EFE).- U.S. private aerospace company SpaceX successfully launched a commercial communications satellite into orbit but later failed to land the rocket that carried it on a drone ship at sea. The SES-9 satellite, owned by Luxembourg-based communications satellite operator SES, entered into orbit at 6:35 p.m. local time Friday after being launched by...

Wikimedia Commons archive photo Mexico City, Mar 5 (EFE).- Mexico's National Protected Natural Areas Commission, or Conanp, has reported the sighting of an albino whale in waters of the El Vizcaino Biosphere Reserve that was last spotted by Mexican authorities more than five years ago when it was still a calf. During the annual whale census taken by Conanp in that northwestern area of the c...

Wikimedia Commons Lima, Mar 4 (EFE).- A Frenchman, 28, and an Englishman, 23, were arrested by Peruvian tourism police for taking nude pictures of themselves at the ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu in the Cuzco region in the southeastern part of the country, police authorities said. Culture Ministry guards alerted tourism police last Wednesday to the presence of two tourists in the agri...

Wikimedia Commons By Britt Nelson Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. Attacks against billionaire Donald Trump mounted during Thursday night’s Republican presidential debate as fellow candidates Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio attempted to derail Trump’s momentum...

sh2-106 region. Wikimedia Commons Berlin, Mar 3 (EFE).- The European Southern Observatory's VLT telescope in Paranal, Chile, has captured images of an enormous ruby-colored gas cloud with giant imbedded stars whose origin remains a mystery to astronomers. The image, released by the ESO at its headquarters in Garching, Germany, shows in detail the massive nebulae where the giants were born. ...

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Mexico City, Mar 2 (EFE).- Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquin "El Chapo" (Shorty) Guzman has asked his legal team to speed up the extradition process from Mexico to the United States due to the harsh conditions at the prison where he is being held, one of the drug lord's attorneys said Wednesday. Attorney Jose Refugio Rodriguez told Radio Formula that he met on Tuesday with Guzman, who is "desperate...

Wikimedia Commons Buenos Aires, Mar 2 (EFE).- A total of 23 Franciscana dolphins have been found dead in recent days on different beaches in Argentina, prompting an investigation. That figure was confirmed to EFE Wednesday by the Mundo Marino foundation, which received reports of the dolphin deaths and has arranged for studies to determine why the animals lost their lives. "They've appea...

(Archive image for illustrative purposes. Wikimedia Commons) By Britt Nelson Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. Both former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a Democrat, and billionaire Republican real estate developer Donald J. Trump won Super Tuesday primary elections -- eac...

Illustrative image. (Flickr) Mexico City, Mar 1 (EFE).- The bodies of the five young people who disappeared on Jan. 11 in Tierra Blanca, a town in the Mexican Gulf state of Veracruz, were burned, grounded down and thrown into a river, officials said Tuesday, citing a statement given by former police officer Ruben Perez, one of the suspects in the case, to investigators. "Based on the inform...

Flickr Commons Sao Paulo, Mar 1 (EFE).- The vice president of Facebook for Latin America was arrested here Tuesday for repeated non-compliance with court orders, Brazil's Federal Police said. Diego Dzodan, an Argentine citizen, was arrested in Sao Paulo on a warrant handed down by a judge in the northeastern state of Sergipe. Judge Marcel Maia Montalvao ruled that the executive failed to...

J-Lo. Wikimedia Commons Miami, Mar 1 (EFE).- U.S. singer and actress Jennifer Lopez confessed she would love to wed again and have a marriage that lasts a lifetime, despite her three divorces. "It's always been a dream of mine, to grow old with somebody... to have a marriage that lasts, until we both die, like in 'The Notebook' (2004)," the actress laughed this Monday during an interview on...

Wikimedia Commons Charlotte, North Carolina, Feb 29 (EFE).- The 55 immigration courts in the United States have handed down 10,142 deportation orders for Central American youngsters who came to this country unaccompanied by an adult since 2014. Data from the Justice Department's Executive Office for Immigration Review indicate that, between July 2014 and Jan. 26, 2016, 8,912 repatriation or...

Panama Canal Panama City, Mar 1 (EFE).- GUPC, the consortium building the new Panama Canal locks, said that in the next two months it would conduct more than 2,000 trials in the Pacific and Caribbean sectors of the expanded waterway, focusing on gates, valves, electric power and control systems. Some systems are already being operated from the control towers and the buildings where machines...

Source: James Harrison Instagram Miami, Feb 28 (EFE).- A cruise ship on the weekend rescued 16 Cuban migrants trying to sail to the United States on a homemade raft, the U.S. Coast Guard told EFE Sunday. The rafters were taken on board the Carnival Sensation before being turned over to authorities in Cozumel, Mexico, the Carnival Sensation's next port of call after setting sail from Miami o...

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Zika is spread by the Aedes aegyptie mosquito (Wikimedia Commons) Santiago, Feb 29 (EFE).- With an unusual mixture of organic ingredients that "were not in its plans," the Chilean company Grupo Avance says it has discovered an innovative formula that acts as a repellent of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, carrier of the Zika virus, dengue fever and other diseases. "We got to this by merging seve...

Formed by volcanic springs heated underground and returned to the surface, the Costa Rica hot springs offer travelers the opportunity to relax and renew in mineral-laden water. Here, magma or lava has worked its way up through the Earth’s crust to relatively shallow depths below the surface. Source: costaricaexperts.com...

  "Força Nacional de Segurança - Luziânia" by Fábio Rodrigues Pozzebom/ABr - http://www.agenciabrasil.gov.br/media/imagens/2007/10/21/1625FP4021.jpg/view. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 br via Wikimedia Commons Sao Paulo, Feb 28 (EFE).- About 1,500 taxi drivers took to the streets of Sao Paulo on Sunday to demand a peaceful debate on ride-sharing service Uber and other transportation compani...

Source: Wikimedia Madrid, Feb 27 (EFE).- Atletico Madrid pulled out a gritty 1-0 victory Saturday over crosstown rival Real Madrid, with Antoine Griezmann scoring the game's only goal shortly after halftime at Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. The loss was a crushing blow to the La Liga hopes of the Blancos, who still have three months of domestic games to play but will now shift all their focus t...

Salma Hayek. Wikimedia Commons Miami, Feb 27 (EFE).- Salma Hayek is mourning the death of her dog Mozart, shot in the heart on the Mexican actress's ranch in Washington state, and asks that the culprit be found so that justice can be done. "I haven't posted for a week as I have been mourning the death of my dog, Mozart, who I personally delivered out of his mother's womb. He was found dead ...

The majestic Antigua. Source: Fernando Reyes Palencia - Wikimedia Commons BALTIMORE, MD (PRWEB) FEBRUARY 26, 2016 - Thousands of retirees (and younger folks, too) are benefiting from a higher quality of life and a lower cost of living in places overseas where even a little goes a long, long way—whether it be filling a tank of gas, getting the week’s groceries, paying for health insurance, or mak...

Supporters of President Maduro rally in Caracas EFE/AGENCIA VENEZOLANA DE NOTICIAS/ By Daniela Castro Molina Caracas, Feb 26 (EFE).- The shortage of food, medicines, household goods and personal hygiene products that Venezuela has suffered for several years has created new "jobs" in this country for those who profit from the crisis by speculating on it. Citizens known as "bachaqueros" (n...