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(AP) The new owners of Venezuela's only television channel to take critical stands against the government say they will, in their words, "contribute to a climate of peace and not of conflict."That comment came after a meeting with socialist President Nicolas ...
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(AP) Mexican authorities say they have seized five boxes filled with cash as part of an investigation into alleged embezzlement by a former governor of southern Tabasco state.Tabasco state prosecutor Fernando Valenzuela says bundles of 500- and 1,000-peso bills were found ...
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(AP) Argentina's president has announced increases of as much as 35 percent in cash handouts to the poor, students, pregnant women and retirees.President Cristina Fernandez says the programs also will reach nearly 700,000 more children, expanding the social safety net and ...
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(AP) Canada's prime minister has announced a new package of development aid for Peru that environmentalists are viewing warily because it is closely tied to Canadian mining investments in the South American country.Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced aid Wednesday that his ...
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(AP) A legislator in Puerto Rico has submitted a bill that would increase fines and jail time for parents whose children skip classes or drop out of school.Angel Munoz Suarez says fines up to $5,000 and a 12-month jail sentence are ...
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(AP) Relatives of the victims of a nightclub fire that killed 242 people early this year in southern Brazil say little has been done to improve the safety of public gathering places since the tragedy.The relatives met Wednesday in the Brazilian ...
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(AP) Puerto Rico's tiny island of Culebra has been forever dependent on the U.S. territory for food, jobs and health care, but the territory's governor is cutting some of those strings.Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla said this week that the island will ...
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(AP) Paraguay exports enough soy, wheat and corn to feed 80 million people, more than 10 times its population, and its rivers provide abundant fresh water. But 14 percent of its children suffer chronic malnutrition, and many others lack of clean ...
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(AP) Argentina's Qom Indians have asked President Cristina Fernandez for help in recovering some of their ancestral land.Justices met with Qom leader Felix Diaz and other tribal members but the governor of Formosa province, Gildo Insfran, was a no-show at the ...
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(AP) The presidents of Colombia, Peru, Chile and Mexico meet in the western city of Cali on Thursday in hopes of completing a nascent trade bloc that looks to the European Union as a model and aims to further open their ...
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(AP) At least nine Colombian soldiers were killed in an attack with homemade explosives by the country's second-largest leftist rebel band, the military said Wednesday.The apparent ambush of a patrol by the National Liberation Army, or ELN, occurred in a rural ...
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(AP) Authorities in the Dominican Republic have arrested a man suspected of raping at least 60 women in the past two years.Police say 23-year-old Jonathan Parra confessed to raping women ages 16 to 28 after picking them up on his motorcycle ...
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(AP) Scientists say one of Costa Rica's largest volcanos is spewing clouds of ash and gas, setting off a small-scale evacuation.Park rangers activated a green alert, the lowest of three levels, after the 10,958-foot (3,340-meter) Turrialba volcano rumbled loudly and emitted ...
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(AP) A former Cayman Islands premier who faces 11 criminal charges is heading into elections with a chance of returning to leadership of the British Overseas Territory.McKeeva Bush's United Democratic Party is one of just two parties with a distant chance ...
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(AP) People who live in the hometown of former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla aren't happy about plans to bury him there.Videla died Friday at age 87 while serving a life term for crimes against humanity during his leadership of a ...
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