A new law published Monday amends Costa Rica's Family Code, but legal experts say the constitutional code has two articles prohibiting same-sex partnerships.
Venezuela's Maduro said he was offering asylum so that the former National Security Agency contractor could live "free of imperial North American persecution."
Known as the "Pablo Escobar of Italy," Roberto Pannunzi was a member of the Calabrian mafia from southern Italy but had close ties with Colombian and Mexican drug cartels as well as the Sicilian Cosa Nostra.
Two passengers are confirmed dead and at least 10 passengers are in critical condition at local hospitals as dramatic pictures and video show a plane engulfed in smoke with its tail missing.
At least one person is dead and several are missing when a Montreal Maine & Atlantic train with five locomotives and 77 rail cars carrying oil from the U.S. state of North Dakota derailed. The death toll is expected to rise on Sunday.
