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(AP) Brazil's Congress has approved legislation aimed at modernizing and expanding the country's overcrowded ports and attracting private investments in the sector.The legislation approved Thursday night allows the private sector to invest in state-owned ports and lifts restrictions that have hindered ...
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(AP) A new Organization of American States study commissioned in response to calls by some Latin American leaders for rethinking the drug war discusses possible decriminalization of consumption of marijuana as part of a public health approach.The $2.2 million study makes ...
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(AP) Venezuelan soldiers are manning dozens of checkpoints across the country's capital in an effort to control a pandemic of violence.Many residents are weary of being terrorized by armed gangs and welcome the program, even if critics dismiss it as a ...
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(AP) Former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla has died of natural causes while serving life sentences in prison for crimes against humanity.Videla took power in a 1976 coup and led a military junta that killed thousands of his fellow citizens in ...
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(AP) Hundreds of miners, teachers and other workers have marched in Bolivia's capital on the 11th day of protests called by the country's largest union to demand higher old-age pensions.Miners exploded dynamite and protesters tried to occupy the plaza where Bolivia's ...
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(AP) A Jamaican woman has been charged with fraud after allegedly swindling an elderly Canadian man in a lottery scam.For years, numerous Jamaican fraudsters have conned mostly elderly Americans out of their retirement savings by promising that they've won millions in ...
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(AP) A government survey says the number of Brazilians using the Internet and cellphones has soared more than 100 percent since 2005.The IBGE statistics agency says that between 2005 and 2011, the number of people aged 10 or more with access ...
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(AP) Coffee production in Puerto Rico has hit the lowest level ever in the island's history, leaving farmers and government officials worried about how to revive a once burgeoning industry.Agriculture Secretary Myrna Comas says farmers produced some 80,000 pounds (36,000 kilograms) ...
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(AP) Two million Argentines will get wage hikes of 24 percent under a deal President Cristina Fernandez brokered with six allied labor unions.Now the government is hoping for similar numbers in next month's salary negotiations with unions aligned with her political ...
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(AP) First milk, butter, coffee and cornmeal ran short. Now Venezuela is running out of the most basic of necessities _ toilet paper.Blaming political opponents for the shortfall, the embattled socialist government says it will import 50 million rolls.That was little ...
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(AP) Colombia's Supreme Court has convicted a former longtime congressman of being the mastermind behind the massacre of 43 people by right-wing paramilitary fighters in the north of the country more than two decades ago. It has sentenced him to 30 ...
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(AP) Prostitution has long been practiced openly in the Dominican Republic but that could soon change.The Dominican attorney general says clients of prostitutes and anyone who makes money off the work of prostitutes will face arrest in a crackdown on the ...
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(AP) Nicaraguan authorities say they have deported a U.S. man wanted for fraud and money laundering in his home country.Interior Minister Ana Morales says Lawrence Hartman was deported to Florida on Wednesday.She says the 47-year-old lawyer was detained April 25 when ...
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(AP) An independent agency that investigates abuse allegations against Jamaica's security forces says the island's police need training in how to deal with mentally ill citizens.A report from the Independent Commission of Investigations says 75 percent of police confrontations with mentally ...
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(AP) El Salvador's Supreme Court is hearing opening arguments in the case of a woman suffering from kidney problems and lupus who has not been allowed to terminate a pregnancy in which the fetus has almost no chance of surviving.El Salvador's ...
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(AP) A plan to get Argentines to pull their undeclared U.S. dollars from under their mattresses and out of illegal tax havens, and deposit them in the banking system is eliciting strong warnings that it will turn the country into a ...
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(AP) You can see the streets where he grew up and played soccer, the church where Jorge Bergoglio prayed as a teenager and the cathedral where the man who would become Pope Francis said Mass. You can even visit the stand ...
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(AP) Puerto Rico's representative in Congress is seeking an unprecedented yes-or-no vote on whether the island should become the 51st state, a bill that is riling many in the U.S. territory.The bill that Pedro Pierluisi filed Wednesday calls for a federally ...
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(AP) Representatives of Colombia's government and largest rebel army have resumed peace talks in the Cuban capital.Both sides say they hope to reach an agreement soon on the first of six agenda items: agrarian reform.The talks recessed May 3, and Colombian ...
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(AP) There's a storage room just off a veterinary lab at a Brazilian university that gives students more experience than many can handle: Skinned pigs and cats, disembodied cow livers, intestines, brains and the other detritus of years' of dissections.With the ...
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(AP) Forecasters say the first tropical depression of the Pacific hurricane season has formed off the coast of Mexico.The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami says the depression formed Wednesday. It had maximum sustained winds of about 35 mph (56 kph) ...
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(AP) Brazil's Supreme Court has annulled the trial of a rancher convicted of ordering the 2005 murder of U.S. nun and Amazon defender Dorothy Stang.The court says in a statement that Vitalmiro Moura was not given enough time to prepare his ...
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(AP) A driver who tried to escape arrest by claiming political connections was charged with manslaughter Tuesday after the woman she hit with her Porsche last week in Mexico City died of her injuries.Mexico is experiencing a backlash against the common ...
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(AP) An editor has accused Algeria's government of censorship after it blocked the publication of his two newspapers.Hicham Aboud, editor of the My Journal and Djaridati newspapers, said that happened after he rejected an order from the Communication Ministry on Saturday ...
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(AP) An official says a hot air balloon has crashed in central Turkey, killing one person and injuring 24 others on board.Hasan Unver, the mayor Nevsehir province told NTV television that the balloon was flying above volcanic cones of the Cappadocia ...
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(AP) Pope Francis is calling for renewal in the Catholic church as he wrapped up two days of mass gatherings in St. Peter's Square aimed at energizing the faithful.About 200,000 people turned out Sunday for Mass celebrated by Francis, about the ...
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(AP) A Russian capsule carrying mice and lizards has returned to Earth after spending a month in space.Scientists say the experiment is intended to test the effects of weightlessness and other factors of space flight on cell structure.Russian state television showed ...
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(AP) Part of an airliner carrying more than 130 people caught fire as it was landing in Moscow, and passengers evacuated the plane by jumping off one of its wings and shooting down an evacuation slide.The Emergencies Ministry says none of ...
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(AP) German Chancellor Angela Merkel, mindful of the weight of Christian voters in September elections, has discussed with Pope Francis how Europe's economy should better serve people.Merkel flew to Rome Saturday for a 45-minute session with the pope at the Vatican. ...
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(AP) British police say they are investigating new leads in the case of Madeleine McCann, the Briton who disappeared six years ago in Portugal at the age of three.Scotland Yard said it has identified several "persons of interest" and "both investigative ...
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