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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) 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) 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) 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 judge has suspended a preliminary order that blocked the signing of a deal giving a multinational consortium the right to run Rio de Janeiro's Maracana Stadium for 35 years.Brazilian construction conglomerate Odebrecht, Los Angeles-based sports and entertainment company AEG ...
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(AP) Aviation officials in the Cayman Islands say an American Airlines plane bound for Panama has made a safe emergency landing in the British Caribbean territory.The Cayman Islands Airport Authority says the flight took off Tuesday from Miami with 147 passengers. ...
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(AP) Haiti's President Michel Martelly is defending his record since taking office of the impoverished Caribbean nation two years ago.The former pop star points to his introduction of a tuition-free school project and social protection programs. Martelly also says his government ...
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(AP) Brazil's National Council of Justice says notary publics must register same-sex civil unions as marriages if the couple requests it.The council that oversees the country's judiciary says in a Tuesday statement that notary publics cannot refuse to marry gay couples ...
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(AP) Rights groups and other activists say there is a growing use of threats and sometimes outright violence in Haiti to clear out sprawling camps that are home to some 320,000 people still homeless since the country's 2010 earthquake.A standoff at ...
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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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