San Francisco marks Golden Gate Bridge 75th anniversary
City launches a yearlong celebration of the 1937 opening with tours festivals and events along the waterfront. Officials say there will be no mass bridge walk this year but fireworks boating parades music and a new museum and cafe highlight the anniversary while preserving the bridge’s iconic status.
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Bridge District Board
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Bridge District
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US agents helped launder millions for Mexican cartel
Documents published in Mexico reveal undercover US anti drug agents and a Colombian informant aided money laundering for the Beltran Leyva cartel and Valle del Norte group in 2007. The operation involved at least 15 wire transfers totaling about 2.5 million, with shipments moving cocaine via flights from Ecuador to Madrid through Dallas. Authorities continue extradition discussions around Colombian suspect Harold Mauricio Poveda Ortega amid ongoing cartel violence in Mexico.
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Japan to free three activists after whaling ship boarding
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Japan will release Geoffrey Owen Tuxworth, Simon Peterffy, and Glen Pendlebury without charges after boarding the Shonan Maru No. 2 near southwest Australia. Tokyo will hand them to Australia, with a likely rendezvous by a customs ship in the Antarctic Ocean.
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