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leaders from the European Union, Latin America and the Caribbean seek ways of eliminating the red tape that has made it so difficult for foreigners to bring their skills across borders.
• The vast majority of migrants between the continents used to travel to Europe, but the trends flipped after 2010, when economic indicators began to improve in Spain and Portugal's former colonies. Now Spanish and Portuguese workers are arriving by the thousands each year, entering on tourist visas and job-hunting in Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Argentina. Spanish migrants with skills needed in the mining industry are particularly sought after in Chile.
• But the bureaucracy is getting in the way.
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Officers' spouses club at Fort Bragg does about-face, invites female officer's wife to join
• FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) -- A woman who is married to a female Army officer at Fort Bragg and who was recently denied membership in its officers' spouses club said late Friday that she has been invited to become a full member.
• Ashley Broadway told the Associated Press that she received the invitation from the club's board in an email Friday.
• The invitation came on the same day that Broadway also learned she'd been named Fort Bragg's 2013 "Military Spouse of the Year" by Military Spouse magazine. She is married to Lt. Col. Heather Mack, who gave birth this week to the couple's second child, a baby girl.
• "I'm pleased, I'm happy," Broadway said by phone Friday night. "As soon as things calm down with the baby, I want to get involved. I hate that it took so long for them to come to this conclusion. But I think things happen for a reason. I'm a very devout Christian. I've had faith in God this whole time. I think if anything it's brought up a larger issue: We have two classes of service members and how they're... not treated equally."
• "Looking back, it's been a blessing in disguise because people are talking... in Washington, this is being talked about," she added.
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Marine expert: Dolphin may have been ill before wandering into polluted NY canal and dying
• NEW YORK (AP) -- A dolphin seen shaking black gunk from its snout after wandering into a polluted urban canal may well have been ill before it lost its way and (Continued on page 29)
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