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(AP) Venezuela's president has ordered the creation of a new workers' militia as part of an existing pro-government fighting force.President Nicolas Maduro gave few details about the militia including how many members it would consist of.It would be part of the ...
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(AP) The lawyer for ex-Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo says he is being extradited to the United States to face money-laundering and embezzlement charges.Attorney Mauricio Berreondo says Portillo was taken Friday from a hospital where he was recovering from an operation to ...
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(AP) Chile's environmental regulator has stopped construction and imposed sanctions on Barrick Gold Corp.'s $8.5 billion Pascua-Lama project, citing "serious violations" of its environmental permit.The $16 million fine is the maximum allowable under Chilean law. It was applied Friday because the ...
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(AP) Ecuador's Rafael Correa is starting a third term as president under seemingly ideal conditions: extremely high popularity, a more than two-thirds majority in Congress, a stable economy and a badly splintered opposition.The combative leftist economist being inaugurated Friday has built ...
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(AP) Brazil's Federal Police say nine people have been arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing Indians girls in the northern state of Amazonas.The force says two women and seven men in the city of Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira are in custody ...
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(AP) Officials in the Turks and Caicos Islands have recovered $19.5 million and more than 2,500 acres (1,000 hectares) of real estate as they continue to seize assets improperly obtained by corrupt politicians.Thursday's announcement comes six months after the territory began ...
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(AP) A massive fire has broken out at a fuel depot in Rio de Janeiro.Television images show bright orange flames leaping scores of feet into the air and thick black smoke rolling off six large fuel storage tanks.There was no word ...
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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) The trial of a Canadian businessman caught up in a corruption probe in Cuba is apparently under way nearly two years after he was detained.Sarkis Yacoubian was president of import company Tri-Star Caribbean, which was shuttered in July 2011. He ...
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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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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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