elpasotimes.com / Braxton-Andrew was killed Oct. 28, 2018 two days after he arrived in the mountain mining village of Urique, about 450 miles southwest of Juárez, Chihuahua Attorney General Cesar Peniche Esquivel said. Peniche said that Braxton-Andrew was on a hike in an area known as La Playita when he reportedly encountered members of a […]
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GOLDEN, CO – A 25-year-old man was sentenced to prison for murdering an Illinois tourist in Sept. 2017, leaving his body in a remote campground in Gilpin County and stealing his van. Jeffrey Mason Maynard appeared in Gilpin County District Court Friday, where he was sentenced to 44 years in prison for the murder of […]
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Alissa J. Rubin Dec. 1, 2018 New York Times PARIS — A third week of anti-government protests intensified in violence on Saturday, as demonstrators burned cars, smashed windows and confronted riot police firing tear gas in the heart of Paris in the most serious crisis of President Emmanuel Macron’s administration. The ‘‘Yellow Vest’’ protests — […]
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news.co.cr REPORTED – Two Spanish tourists and three Costa Rican tourists (including a minor) suffered an armed robbery while they were enjoying a walk in one of the trails of the Rincon de la Vieja National Park this Thursday, August 9th at around 11:30 a.m. The tourists were intercepted by men carrying knifes who took […]
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Nicaragua’s national tourism in decline amid political unrest aljazeera.com reported… Workers in Nicaragua’s tourism industry are hoping to hang on until the next busy season, but if the country has not stabilised by then, migration may become their only option. The once-thriving tourism industry in Nicaragua has completely collapsed. The recent unrest in the Central […]
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81 YEAR OLD TOURIST FROM U.S. FOUND SAFE, DEHYDRATED Lost tourist in Santa Cruz was located by coordination of the 911 ECU At around 4:43 pm on Saturday, January 13, a US citizen contacted the 9-1-1 emergency line to report that she was missing in the El Chato sector, on the upper part of Santa […]
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Israeli tourist killed in Thailand; said to hit his head jumping into waterfall 28-year-old man was vacationing with friends on the island of Koh Samui An Israeli tourist was killed in Thailand after apparently hitting his head on a rock after jumping into a waterfall on the island of Koh Samui, Hebrew-language media reported Saturday. […]
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An American shot dead in a Mexican beach resort has been identified as an official from a Southern California city. The city of Imperial Beach says in a statement that its Administrative Services Director Doug Bradley was killed Thursday while vacationing in Zihuatanejo, Mexico. The township includes the neighboring resort of Ixtapa. The death came […]
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To many who have heard of Vilcabamba, Ecuador it is known as the “Valley of Longevity. However, to some expats from the U.S. and Canada, that are willing to talk, it also is known to have a dark side which is not often revealed to the outside world from this tiny hamlet in the Andes. […]
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CNN.COM – A spokesperson for the US State Department confirmed the deaths of “multiple US citizens.” “We express our condolences to all those affected by this tragedy. We are in contact with Costa Rican aviation authorities and will continue to monitor the situation,” the spokesperson said. It was not immediately clear what caused the crash, […]
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