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Authorities have released a poster showing the names and photos of 151 men who escaped from a prison south of the border in Nuevo Laredo. The daring escape took place at the CEDES prison outside Nuevo Laredo in mid-December. Authorities believe the escaped was masterminded by a Zetas drug cartel leader's nephew at the prison. Mexican officials filed formal charges against dozens of prison workers for their role in the escape. Authorities on both sides of the border worked to compile names and photos of the escapees, who are now believed to be working with the Zetas. The Webb County...

Canada's voice lost amid UN gnashing Darfur crisis echoes Rwanda Kelly McParland National Post September 18, 2004 1 | 2 | NEXT >> If you want to know what happens when a country cedes its foreign policy to the United Nations, as Canada has done, all you have to do is look at Sudan. The crisis in that country's Darfur region is textbook UN -- a complex conflict in an impoverished country in a remote part of the world, which gets dumped on the world body because nobody knows quite what else to do about it. There is much talk,...