| From Édgar, 5, Coughs Heard Round the World Mexican government identifies five-year-old Edgar Hernandez as first person in Mexico to have become infected with virulent strain of swine flu; admission raises questions about speed of Mexico's response to early stages of what might become global epidemic; Edgar was one of hundreds of people from La Gloria who came down with flulike symptoms in outbreak that began March 9; local residents accuse public officials of discounting outbreak at that time, reassuring them nothing was wrong; official... query.nytimes.com |
Déjà Vu in Mexico The same violent drug war that was waged in Colombia is being re-fought in Mexico. nytimes.com |
National Briefing | South: Florida: Court Reduces Cuban Spies’ Sentences Two former Cuban intelligence officers convicted of spying in the United States were given reduced prison sentences after an appeals court ruled that their original terms were too severe. feeds.nytimes.com |
A Parish Tested: Haitian New Yorkers Hold On to Their Hope At SS. Joachim and Anne, a largely Haitian Roman Catholic parish in Queens Village, church and school officials worried and tried to console the families there. feeds.nytimes.com |
Haiti Calls Off Search, Rescue Decision to stop searching for survivors comes the day after two people buried in rubble of Port-au-Prince were pulled out alive www1.voanews.com |