Cuba’s Communist Youth Union replaces director, promotes group’s No. 2

August 16th, 2009 Mexico replaces all customs agents in drug fightMEXICO CITY — Mexico has replaced all 700 of its customs inspectors with agents newly trained to fight drug smuggling. The government has sent soldiers to airports and border crossings across the country to take back the guns issued to the inspectors.

May 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Twenty-year-old Raeesha Khan had a jubilant 'It's thumbs-up Congress!' as her status message on Google chat Saturday. Following the number game closely on the TV as the poll results kept pouring in from across the country, she, like many young people, said they were glad they voted for the Congress.

May 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Air Marshal PK Barbora, presently Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Air Command has been appointed the new Vice Chief of the Air Staff (VCAS). He will assume charge as the VCAS from June 1, 2009.

May 12th, 2009 Martin Luther King III promotes unity in BosniaSARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Martin Luther King III is telling young people in Bosnia that the country's ethnic and religious diversity can be converted from a weakness into a strength. Speaking Tuesday in Sarajevo, King acknowledged that Bosnia has gone through difficult times but said its youth could join together to promote tolerance and unity.

April 24th, 2009 TORONTO - Hinduism is the most positively viewed religion after Christianity in Canada, where many believe that Islam promotes violence and so does Sikhism, says a survey by a premier magazine. According to the survey by Maclean's weekly, almost half of Canadians believe that Islam promotes violence.

April 13th, 2009 KOCHI - Brushing aside talk of his becoming the prime minister, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Monday said his aim was to strengthen the youth brigade of the Congress party. 'Dynastic rule in the Congress party is not going to be there,' Rahul Gandhi said.

April 1st, 2009 RANCHI - Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, in a rally in Jharkhand, Wednesday appealed to the youth to vote to 'change the fate of the country'. 'I appeal youth to vote for Congress to change the fate of the state and the country.

March 22nd, 2009 BANGALORE - Kevin Pietersen, former captain of the England cricket team, is going to be the skipper of the Bangalore Royal Challengers team at IPL Twenty20 tournament this year, team owner Vijay Mallya announced Saturday. Pitersen replaces Rahul Dravid as the Royal Challengers captain for the second season of the Indian Premier League (IPL).

February 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Sunday said dominance of money power and nepotism was obstructing the entry of youth in politics. 'The youth want to join politics but don't know the way.

February 6th, 2009 BANGALORE - Karnataka Police Saturday detained two people for questioning over the attack on a Kerala legislator's daughter and her Muslim male friend in Mangalore town Friday evening, officials said. 'We have picked up two people for questioning in connection with the incident but haven't arrested them yet,' a police spokesperson told IANS on phone from Mangalore, about 350 km from here.

January 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Minister for Youth Affairs M.S. Gill Friday called upon the youth to carry forward the message of 'ahimsa' (non-violence) through which the menace of terror could be eliminated.

January 29th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Close on the heels of the Congress party's announcement that it would field a number of youth in the forthcoming Lok Sabha poll, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Friday said her party would give youth 50 percent of its poll tickets. 'Encouraging youths is a long-term policy of the BSP and in the interests of the country and 'Sarvasamaj' (the entire society), the party will provide 50 percent of tickets for the Lok Sabha poll to youth,' a press release cited Mayawati as saying.

January 27th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Congress general secretary and MP Rahul Gandhi is visiting this Gujarat city Friday to woo youths in the state to join the party, a senior Congress party leader said Wednesday. The Congress is conducting party elections in the state for its youth wing, said Ashok Tanwar, president of the All India Youth Congress.

January 11th, 2009 AMRITSAR - January's harsh winter in this Punjab city may not be the most ideal time to organise an event but that did not deter hundreds of youth from turning out colourfully to showcase the rich tradition and culture of their respective states as the 14th National Youth Festival got underway here Monday. While Vice-President Hamid Ansari inaugurated the festival here, Punjab's Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, the state's youth and sports minister Gulzar Singh Ranike and other ministers chose to stay away from the biggest youth congregation held in the state.

January 4th, 2009 KATHMANDU - The youth wing of Nepal's main opposition party Monday joined the fray over the ouster of Indian priests at the revered Pashupatinath temple, saying they were ready to cross swords with the Maoists. Mahendra Yadav, chief of Nepal Tarun Dal, the youth wing of former prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala's Nepali Congress party, Monday issued a statement saying his organisation was ready to wage a struggle for faith.