advertisement advertisement Juarez Cartel Leader Vicente Carrillo Fuentes Arrested in Mexico

The leader of the notorious Juarez drug cartel was arrested at a seemingly routine traffic checkpoint, Mexican authorities said Thursday. The FBI had offered a $5 million reward for Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, 51. Known as "The Viceroy," he took over the Juarez Cartel when his brother, Amado Carrillo Fuentes, died in 1997 as a result of botched cosmetic surgery. He also oversaw a brutal turf war with the rival Sinaloa Cartel that is believed to have killed more than 8,000 people from 2009 to 2011 in Ciudad Juarez, across the Mexican border from El Paso, Texas.

More deaths in India and Pakistan clashes

India's defence minister has asked Pakistan to stop its shelling in the disputed Kashmir region and warned it would make such attacks "unaffordable," as the death toll in cross-border firing climbed to at least 17 after five additional fatalities were reported overnight.
"If Pakistan persists with this adventurism, our forces will make cost of this adventurism unaffordable for it," Arun Jaitley told journalists in New Delhi on Thursday.
"Pakistan should stop this unprovoked firing and shelling if it wants peace on the border."
At least two people, including a woman, were killed in the Pakistani border town of Sialkot in overnight firing by Indian troops, according to the website of Pakistan's Dawn newspaper.
Pakistan said it was capable of responding "befittingly" to Indian actions.
"We do not want the situation on the borders of two nuclear neighbours to escalate into confrontation," the Defence Ministry said in a statement.

Palestinian unity government meets in Gaza

The meeting is the first ever to be held in Gaza, four months after the Palestinian unity government was sworn in.

The Palestinian unity government held its first session in Gaza since 2007 [AP]

The Palestinian unity government has held its first meeting in war-torn Gaza, the first cabinet session since 2007, when a brief armed confrontation soured relations between Hamas and Fatah faction.
Thursday's meeting was the first in the besieged enclave, and the first that Gaza-based ministers could attend, after Israel blocked their travel to the West Bank to be sworn in.
"This is the government of all of Palestine... therefore I demand all factions support the government in rebuilding the Gaza strip and restoring a normal way of life," Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah said during the meeting.

Ebola-hit states say world response is slow

World Bank chief says "perhaps even Africa" is at risk, as more cases of infection are diagnosed worldwide. World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said slow response to Ebola puts Africa at stake [Reuters]

Leaders of West African nations plagued by Ebola said the deadly virus is outpacing the world's response to it, jeapordising the future of "perhaps Africa." "Ladies and gentleman, unless we quickly contain and stop the Ebola epidemic, nothing less than the future of not only West Africa - but perhaps even Africa is at stake," Jim Yong Kim, President of World Bank, said on Thursday at a meeting on the Ebola response. "Our people are dying,'' Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma said on Thursday by videoconference at the meeting. Koroma said the world is not responding fast enough as doctors and nurses continue to die.

Tina Fey Throws a Sliver of Shade at Naked Lena Dunham

Elle Magazine

Tina Fey is getting candid on her thoughts on who many see as her TV-writer successor -- Girls creator Lena Dunham.

In a new interview with Elle magazine for their 21st annual Women in Hollywood Awards, the 44-year-old 30 Rock creator comments on Dunham's frequent on-screen nudity, and how her philosophy greatly differs from her.

Scarlett Johansson Shows Off Her Post-Baby Body While Kissing Fiancé

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Looking good Scarlett!

After giving birth to her first child, Rose, on Sept. 4, Scarlett Johansson was seen stepping out for the first time Wednesday in New York City with her fiancé Romain Dauriac.

And clearly, having a child together did nothing but strengthen her bond to the French journalist, as the two were snapped passionately kissing.

European Union Reacts To Soldiers Death Sentence

The European Union (EU) has finally reacted to the death sentence handed 12 Nigerian soldiers by a military tribunal over charges of mutiny. 
The reaction was contained in a statement issued by European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton and the Secretary General of the Council of Europe on the European, Mr. Thorbjørn Jagland, who condemned the recent tribunal judgment, a copy obtained by the Nation.

The EU made the condemnation against the backdrop of the occasion marking the World Day against Death Penalty, held on Thursday, where it expressed the region’s concern on the verdict.

Some of the soldiers during their trial at the military tribunal

The European Union in the statement revealed that no execution has taken place in its member states in the last 17 years. It stressed that on the European and World Day against the Death Penalty, the European Union and the Council of Europe always reiterate their strong and absolute opposition against capital punishment in all cases and under all circumstances, as well as its commitment to work towards death sentence abolition worldwide.

“We are deeply concerned about setbacks in some