More detained in milk recall Officials in China announced yesterday they have detained 22 people for allegedly contaminating milk with a dangerous industrial chemical called melamine, creating one of the nation's worst food safety crises in years.
The contamination has caused more than 50,000 children to become sick, resulting in at least four deaths. Thousands of products in China and worldwide have been recalled.
The Chinese government suspects that the individuals arrested were intentionally poisoning the milk products.
Ecuador approves new constitution President Rafael Correa of Ecuador expanded his authority and may serve a decade in office after voters approved a new constitution Sunday.
Unofficial results indicated that at least 65 percent of Ecuadorans voted for the constitution that will give Correa a wide range of new powers.
In Ecuador, voting is mandatory for people ages 18 to 64, so nearly 10 million people were called to vote in the referendum.
Correa is a strong ideological ally of President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.
Syrian car bomb kills 17 people A car bomb explosion in Damascus, Syria, killed 17 people and wounded 14 others, including women and children on Saturday.
Reports said the car was packed with 200 kilograms of explosives.
People near the explosion said the blast felt like an earthquake.
Interior Minister Gen. Bassam Abdul Majid said the bombing was a terrorist act.
Blasts in Iraq kill 27, wound dozens Sunday attacks in a crowded commercial zone of Baghdad killed at least 27 people, officials reported yesterday.
The Shurta neighborhood of western Baghdad was bombed, killing 12 people. Later, two explosions in the Karrada neighborhood of central Baghdad killed 15 others and wounded at least 50 people.
U.S. officials said the attacks were the work of a Sunni insurgent group.
Officials find 16 dead bodies in Tijuana Authorities uncovered 16 dead bodies early Monday in two different locations in Tijuana. Police said the corpses showed signs that the killings were retaliation for betraying members of the cartel.
Four men were found in Colonia Sepanal. One had a sign that said: "I am not a traitor, but I don't like to hang around with cowards."
Another group of corpses was found in an empty lot in Otay Constituyentes. The bodies of 11 men and one woman were found slain next to a sign that said, "This is what will happen to all the people that cooperate with the Ingeniero because of their big mouths."
Fernando Sanchez Arrellano, the head of the Arellano-Felix cartel is nicknamed El Ingeniero, which means the engineer.
-Compiled by City Editor Wendy Fry. Sources Used: The New York Times, CNN, Associated Press and The Washington Post.
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