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(AP) New Zealand has signed a partnership agreement with NATO.The agreement states that despite its distance from member nations, New Zealand can partner with NATO on issues like terrorism, military training and intelligence.Prime Minister John Key says the agreement formalizes and ...
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(AP) Mexican authorities have returned to their biological mothers all but one of the babies ensnared in an apparent illegal adoption ring providing children to Irish couples, the women's lawyers said Monday.Attorney Yuri Marquez said Jalisco state authorities returned 10 of ...
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(AP) Eighteen sailors whose yacht was badly damaged during a race from New Zealand to New Caledonia have reached the safety of remote Norfolk Island.The crew on the 24-meter (79-foot) vessel Beau Geste contacted rescue teams Monday after the boat's hull ...
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(AP) A group of Honduras farmworkers who seized lands on the Caribbean coasts says it has agreed to move out and end a bitter dispute with the government and landowners that has caused dozens of deaths in recent years.Spokesman Vitalino Alvarez ...
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(AP) The dark halls inside Venezuela's La Planta prison are pocked with bullet holes, littered with hunks of concrete and reek from the smell of garbage and raw sewage.Authorities led journalists through the prison more than two weeks after inmates were ...
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(AP) The Brazilian government says it has seized Banco Cruzeiro do Sul after unspecified irregularities were discovered at the Sao Paulo-based bank.The Central Bank says the Brazilian agency that protects bank customers and their deposits will take over leadership of the ...
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(AP) Mexican tourism officials say there has been a 5.3 percent increase in the number of international visitors to Mexico from January to April.The rise comes after the Texas Department of Public Safety released a travel warning discouraging students in March ...
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(AP) Brazil's president says European nations must cooperate better to exit the financial crisis they face _ and they shouldn't rely on growth in developing nations for help.President Dilma Rousseff spoke Monday in Brasilia alongside Spain's king, who is visiting Brazil ...
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(AP) Brazil's slowing growth and Argentina's bewildering trade and currency restrictions are dragging down the profits of some of the region's airlines, which tend to be a reliable indicator of economic misfortune.In Uruguay, the national airline Pluna is resisting a $30 ...
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(AP) When Sandra Tamari arrived at Israel's international airport, she received an unusual request: A security agent pushed a computer screen in front of her, connected to Gmail and told her to "log in."The agent, suspecting Tamari was involved in pro-Palestinian ...
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(AP) Argentina's YPF oil company on Monday held its first shareholder meeting since being expropriated by the government, naming a board of directors reflecting the stunning reversal of fortune of its former owner, Spain's Repsol.Repsol, whose stake in YPF has grown ...
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(AP) A city on the north coast of Puerto Rico has agreed to spend $56 million to repair and upgrade water treatment facilities in an agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.The EPA says the city of Arecibo has also agreed ...
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(AP) Transsexuals lined up Monday to be the first to take advantage of Argentina's groundbreaking gender-identity law, which enables people to change their names and sexes on official documents without first getting approval from a judge or doctor.No other country in ...
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(AP) Austria's defense minister says his country plans to buy surveillance drones for use at home and abroad.Defense Minister Norbert Darabos says the drones could be used to help protect troops on foreign soil through surveillance as well as in case ...
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(AP) Colombia's vice president is a plain-talking former leftist union leader with a common touch who often spices his speech with colloquialisms.But Angelino Garzon's word choice proved controversial last week when he explained why he and other senior government officials had ...
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