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(AP) Acrid smoke from a fire at a sprawling trash dump blanketed swaths of Jamaica's capital Thursday, and officials warned people to stay indoors to avoid exposure to potentially dangerous pollutants.Jamaica's emergency management office said it would likely take three more days to bring the fire under control and five days ...

Israeli reaches Chile plea deal to plant trees

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(AP) Chile has settled its criminal case against an Israeli hiker accused of negligently causing a fire that destroyed much of the Torres del Paine national park.Under Chile's obsolete Forests Law, pyromaniacs or negligent tourists can be fined no more than $300 for setting fires in national parks.So instead of seeking ...

Asia

SKorean lawmakers in NKorea to visit joint factory

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(AP) A delegation of South Korean lawmakers has crossed the tense border with North Korea to visit a joint factory park seen as the last major symbol of reconciliation between the rivals.Friday's trip by eight lawmakers to the North's border town of Kaesong comes amid lingering animosity between the Koreas and ...

Latin America

Bolivia seizes 17 properties in drugs raids

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(AP) Bolivian authorities say they've seized 17 properties from a provincial clan ostensibly in the gravel business that it suspects of laundering drug money through real estate.Cochabamba police chief Vladimir Pol says police were unable to capture any of the seven wanted brothers of the Cossio Rojas family when they raided ...

Cocaine found in Ecuador diplomatic mail

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(AP) Ecuador's foreign minister says police in Italy found nearly 90 pounds (40 kilos) of cocaine in diplomatic mail sent to the Mediterranean country and two suspects have been arrested.Ricardo Patino said Thursday that the Italians asked permission last month before opening eight crates and found the drugs.He says the crates ...

Middle East

Egypt's angry soccer fans are deep into politics

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(AP) Egypt's ruling generals have a new enemy: the legions of angry soccer fans who have injected fervor into recent protests demanding the military step down and battled police for days in the streets of Cairo.Known as Ultras and long viewed as hooligans, they have grown increasingly political, starting with last ...

Latin America

Mexican army chief admits mistakes in drug war

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(AP) The Mexican army's highest official concedes the military has committed errors in the fight against organized crime and drug traffickers but says those responsible have been punished.National and international human rights groups have accused Mexican soldiers and marines of abusing suspects and contend the guilty evade punishment in the military ...

Brazil files injunction against Twitter

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(AP) A request for an injunction to stop Twitter users from alerting drivers to police roadblocks, radar traps and drunk-driving checkpoints could make Brazil the first country to take Twitter up on its plan to censor content at governments' requests.Twitter unveiled plans last month that would allow country-specific censorship of tweets ...

Middle East

Report: Iran adds 2 submarines to naval fleet

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(AP) Iran's official news agency reported Thursday that the navy has added two more domestically built light submarines to its fleet.The move is seen as part of Iran's effort to upgrade its defense capabilities amid escalating tension with the West over its nuclear program. Tehran has threatened to close the strategic ...

Hamas drifting away from longtime patron Iran

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(AP) Hamas appears to be drifting away from its longtime patron Iran _ part of a shift that began with last year's Arab Spring and accelerated over Tehran's backing of the pariah regime in Syria.The movement's top leader in exile, Khaled Mashaal, wants Hamas to be part of the broader Islamist ...

Iran opposition leader's daughter banned from job

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(AP) An Iranian opposition website reported Thursday that authorities have banned one of the daughters of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi from her teaching job.The report by Kaleme.com said Mousavi's daughter was omitted from the list of instructors of Al-Zahra University. She was teaching art at the all-women university.It said security ...

Latin America

Arrest warrant sought for close Uribe associate

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(AP) Colombia's chief prosecutor's office said Thursday it was seeking the arrest of ex-President Alvaro Uribe's longtime peace commissioner for allegedly choreographing the bogus surrender of a column of leftist guerrillas.Luis Carlos Restrepo is the third former close associate of Uribe to face criminal charges. The other two, Uribe's former chief ...

Europe and Russia

Greenland mourns victims of triple homicide

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(AP) Greenland was in mourning Thursday after an 8-year-old girl and two women were bludgeoned to death and two men seriously injured in a remote Inuit village.Flags flew at half staff and two minutes of silence were observed across the giant, but sparsely populated island, where violence of that scale is ...

Latin America

Mexico City modern metro meets ancient Aztec life

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(AP) After two hours' grueling drive southeast from the center of Mexico City, through paralyzing traffic jams and clouds of throat-burning smog, the bleached-white haze of air pollution gives way to pale-blue sky.In a flat-bottomed boat tied to a willow tree, Crispin Matteos Galicia hauls up sediment in a plastic bucket ...

Middle East

Pardoned Moroccan clerics say they were tortured

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(AP) Three conservative clerics whose arrests nine years ago heralded the beginning of Morocco's crackdown on Islamists called on Thursday for a new investigation into their country's worst terrorist attack.After the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the U.S., Moroccan authorities began targeting hardline Islamist clerics, especially those believed to be sympathetic ...