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Santo Domingo.– US Coast Guard officials took down suspected smugglers and landed more ...

Santo Domingo.– Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez said the Vatican is following the trial of ex-Vatican envoy Josef Wesolowski, accused of committing pedophile acts while exercising his religious and diplomatic post in the Dominican Republic."The Vatican is following his case at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which is the one that handles child abuse cases. We're supposed to...

Santo Domingo.– Former President Hipolito Mejia is determined to actively participate with all his strength and energy to work for the unity of the political opposition in the Dominican Republic, both in politics and in the social field, El Nuevo Diario reported today. According to the report, Hipolito Mejia will spend all the time necessary for that purpose and make La Convergencia the ideal instrument...

Santo Domingo.- National Police spokesman Jacobo Mateo denied Friday that wealthy attorney Julio Cepeda Ureña ordered the death of Suleyka Flores, as local media report....

Santo Domingo.- Haiti’s Interior Minister on Thursday said his country will adopt measures to keep Haitian convicts who escaped from his country’s prisons during the January 2010 quake, from taking advantage of Dominican Republic’s plan to regularize foreigners, EFE reports....

Santo Domingo.- The National Investigations Department (DNI) on Thursday said simultaneous raids at San Cristóbal and La Romana provinces and the National District led to the arrest of seven Pakistanis and one Dominican, charged with trafficking humans through a network....

Santo Domingo.- Amid a backdrop of doubting reporters present, the Dominican Government on Wednesday announced that the third round of talks with Haiti that had been slated for today in Petion Ville, Port-au-Prince, would only consist of signing three agreements....

Santo Domingo.- The National Weather Office (ONAMET) forecasts continuing weak to moderate scattered showers accompanied by thunderstorms over most of the country, from the combination of two troughs....

Santo Domingo.- The Justice Ministry’s Anti-migrant Smuggling and Person Trafficking Dept. (PECTIMTP) on Thursday announced the rescue of 309 women victims in its first year, during widespread raids in the National District and the interior....

New York.- Octogenarian Harlem lawmaker Charles Rangel, who seeks to retain the District 13 seat in the House of Representatives he’s held for 43 years, faces ever-dwindling electoral chances....

Santo Domingo.- Haiti ambassador Fritz Cineas denied Thursday that his country pushed Dominican Republic to adopt a naturalization Law and noted that ever since the Constitutional Court handed down ruling 168-13 on nationality, Port-au-Prince has maintained its position of respect for the Dominican people’s sovereignty and "and in now way does it interfere in the country’s internal affairs."...

Santo Domingo.- President Danilo Medina returned Thursday afternoon from San Jose, Costa Rica, where he attended the inaugural of its new President Luis Guillermo Solís....

Santo Domingo.- National District prosecutor Yeni Berenice Reynoso on Thursday said bowing to pressures and resigning from the money laundering and embezzlement case against former Public Works minister Víctor Díaz Rúa "would be a cowardice."...

Santo Domingo.- Attorney and businessman Julio Cepeda Ureña, 64, was arrested Thursday night charged with ordering the April 28 death of accountant Suleika Flores and Natasha Sing Guzmán, executed 20 days earlier, by the same assassins who mistook her for Flores....

San Juan. – The Dominican community in Puerto Rico on Wednesday complained of continuing police brutality by local law enforcement, especially in their in businesses and other harassment they say violate their human rights....

Santo Domingo.- Despite the two years since the May 2012 election and two away from the polls of 2016, the country’s political competition hasn’t ceased and the issue tops the public agenda, roiled by the split in Dominican Republic’s opposition party (PRD), the avalanche of hopefuls in the ruling party (PLD), the internal revamp of the three major organizations and civil society’s involvement....

Santo Domingo.- Against tough odds and under tense calm across Hispaniola the third round of Dominican Republic-Haiti talks postponed four times is slated for 10am (11am Dominican time) tomorrow Thursday at a hotel in Petionville, Port-au-Prince....

Santo Domingo.- The Mokotów Regional Court in Warsaw, Poland appointed two lawyers to represent two boys allegedly sexually abused by Catholic priest Wojciech Nogache (Alberto Gil)....

Santo Domingo.- Under the current market formula Dominican Republic’s Social Security System (SDSS) is headed to oblivion, since it’s under a financially untenable stage of cyclical crises that can explode at any time....

Barahona, Dominican Republic.- U.S. Embassy chief of staff Daniel Foote on Tuesday said Washington’s spending cuts will not affect its aid for Dominican Republic’s fight against drug trafficking....