International Business News - HND http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Minors who commit crimes while in the United States illegally will be turned over to federal immigration officials, a reversal of a nearly 20-year-old San Francisco policy, Mayor Gavin Newsom said Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/85419-newsom-governor.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080704/young-offenders-in-sf-illegally-get-no-more-break.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080704/young-offenders-in-sf-illegally-get-no-more-break.htm Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:17:38 EDT Minors who commit crimes while in the United States illegally will be turned over to federal immigration officials, a reversal of a nearly 20-year-old San Francisco policy, Mayor Gavin Newsom said Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/young-offenders-in-sf-illegally-get-no-more-break.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:14:05 EDT An anti-sweatshop group wants Ohio to pressure two companies it does business with to improve what it says are abusive working conditions in factories abroad. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080702/group-chides-ohio-for-link-to-sweatshop-factories.htm Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:38:01 EDT Activists from immigrants rights groups rallied outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Baltimore on Tuesday to protest illegal immigration raids that they say are both ineffective and harmful to children. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080701/protesters-want-immigration-reform-not-roundups.htm Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:16:57 EDT The chairman of the Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents and his wife announced a $15 million gift Thursday to support the new Ocean Hall at the National Museum of Natural History. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080626/couple-gives-15m-for-smithsonian-ocean-hall.htm Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:27:02 EDT More than 160 suspected illegal immigrants working in a hot, cluttered rag factory were detained Wednesday in one of the largest immigration raids in Houston in nearly two years. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080625/at-least-160-workers-detained-in-immigration-raid.htm Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:29:20 EDT A federal grand jury indicted 26 suspected members of an international gang accused in a cross-border drug ring, according to court documents unsealed Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080624/grand-jury-indicts-26-reputed-gang-members-in-nc.htm Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:13:14 EDT U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said Monday the United States wants to open an office in Latin America to monitor food safety. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/77900-mexico-us-tomatoes-salmonella.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080623/us-searches-for-salmonella-in-mexico.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080623/us-searches-for-salmonella-in-mexico.htm Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:20:29 EDT Coffee futures rose Tuesday as investors bet that recent storms in Central America may have damaged crops, hurting global supplies at a time of rising demand. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080610/coffee-prices-advance-on-centam-supply-concerns.htm Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:01:31 EDT Restaurants and grocery stores across the U.S. have halted sales of some raw tomatoes because of a multistate salmonella outbreak. According the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 40,000 people are sickened by salmonella each year in the U.S. The CDC estimates that about 400 people die each year with acute salmonellosis, the infection caused by the salmonella bacteria. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080609/some-recent-salmonella-outbreaks-in-the-us.htm Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:36:45 EDT Police say more than two dozen Cuban immigrants are being held by immigration officials in Honduras. Members of the group say they spent 15 days at sea in a small boat and weathered five strong storms. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080606/cuban-immigrants-arrive-in-honduras.htm Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:11:02 EDT Flash flooding carried away houses and ripped a child from his father's grasp in Belize, while falling trees killed two people in Honduras, raising the death toll from Central America's twin tropical storms this week to at least nine. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080604/central-america-storms-kills-at-least-9.htm Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:52:56 EDT Flash flooding carried away houses and ripped a child from his father's grasp in Belize, raising the death toll from Central America's twin tropical storms to at least seven--with rain still causing floods Tuesday in neighboring Mexico. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080603/flooding-from-tropical-storm-kills-4-in-belize.htm Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:43:26 EDT The Honduran capital's Toncontin International Airport reopened Monday to small and mid-sized planes, three days after a large jetliner overshot the runway. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080602/honduras-recovers-jets-flight-recorder.htm Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:58:36 EDT President Manuel Zelaya said that Honduras would create a civilian airport for commercial jets on a U.S. military airfield, diverting traffic from Tegucigalpa's notoriously dangerous airport following a deadly crash. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/59743-honduras-plane-crash.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080601/honduras-redirecting-commercial-jet-traffic.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080601/honduras-redirecting-commercial-jet-traffic.htm Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:54:54 EDT A U.S. soldier who was held in a Mexican jail for more than a month on weapons charges has been released, Mexican authorities said. Spc. Richard Torres was arrested April 21 after he has said he accidentally crossed the border in El Paso with an AR-15 assault rifle, a .45-caliber handgun and 171 bullets in his car. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080531/us-soldier-jailed-in-mexico-on-gun-charges-freed.htm Sat, 31 May 2008 15:45:06 EDT The remnants of Tropical Storm Alma dumped rain on Honduras on Friday and led to the death of a child who was swept away by a swollen stream. The 7-year-old girl drowned in the southern province of Choluteca, Honduras' national Emergency Commission said in a news release. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/58926-nicaragua-tropical-storm-alma.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080531/alma-weakens-to-tropical-depression.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080531/alma-weakens-to-tropical-depression.htm Sat, 31 May 2008 00:24:26 EDT Investigators were probing a commercial jetliner crash that killed five people and injured 65 in Honduras, as authorities blocked additional flights from landing at the capital's notoriously dangerous airport on Saturday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/59170-honduras-plane-crash.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080531/taca-passenger-jet-crashes-in-honduras-4-killed.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080531/taca-passenger-jet-crashes-in-honduras-4-killed.htm Sat, 31 May 2008 11:38:51 EDT A Miami-bound jetliner overshot a runway, raced onto a busy street and slammed into an embankment in the Honduran capital Friday, killing the pilot, two passengers and a motorist on the ground. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/58733-honduras-plane-crash.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080530/plane-overshoots-runway-at-honduras-airport.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080530/plane-overshoots-runway-at-honduras-airport.htm Fri, 30 May 2008 18:24:21 EDT The remnants of Tropical Storm Alma dumped rain on Honduras and Guatemala on Friday, as officials in Nicaragua and Costa Rica cleared trees from roads and repaired roofless homes. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/58691-costa-rica-tropical-storm-alma.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080530/tropical-storm-pounds-central-america.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080530/tropical-storm-pounds-central-america.htm Fri, 30 May 2008 17:22:10 EDT