Des Moines, Iowa - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has recently reached agreements allowing U.S. beef and pork producers greater access to consumers in Mexico and Peru. The two agreements announced Friday will allow U.S. producers to export slaughter cattle to Mexico and expand access to consumer markets in Peru for U.S. fresh and chilled pork. The Secretary made the announcements during a meeting with producers in Des Moines, Iowa.

Washington, DC - The U.S. Departments of State, Commerce, and Transportation are reviewing claims that three foreign airlines – Emirates Airline, Etihad Airways, and Qatar Airways – have received and are benefitting from subsidies from their respective governments of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar that are distorting the global aviation market.

Washington, DC - Secretary of State John Kerry and African Union Commission Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma will deliver opening remarks at the third iteration of their annual High Level Dialogue on Monday, April 13, 2015, in the Department of State’s Benjamin Franklin Room.

San Juan, Puerto Rico - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents, working jointly with Puerto Rico Crimes Against Children Task Force (PRCACTF) officers, arrested Tuesday and Wednesday 12 people for crimes involving the sexual exploitation of children. The operation, dubbed Friend Zone, is the largest enforcement operation ever held in Puerto Rico targeting predators who possess, produce or distribute sexually explicit images of minors.

Washington, DC - The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force-International Cyber Crime Coordination Cell (IC4) coordinated with the Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) and the Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce (J-CAT), and the Dutch National High Tech Crime Unit, along with private sector partners in their targeted takedown of the Beebone (also known as AAEH) botnet.

Washington, DC - The Department of Justice filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of North Carolina today seeking the arrest and extradition of a former colonel in the Salvadoran army to face charges in Spain related to the murder of five Spanish Jesuit priests in El Salvador in 1989.