Tag: america
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November 07, 2009 11:28 AM EST --
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Scores of relatives of the 228 people killed in the June 1 Air France jet crash dedicated a memorial in an upscale beach neighborhood Saturday amid strong criticism that the . . .
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November 07, 2009 11:28 AM EST --
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Recent arson attacks and shootings in this violence-wracked South American nation are the work of a mastermind living in the United States, Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo . . .
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November 07, 2009 10:14 AM EST --
HUAMPAMI, Peru (AP) — In his first year at San Marcos University, Hermenegildo Espejo barely spoke, and certainly not in class.
His Spanish was rudimentary, his accent an embarrassment. Classmates . . .
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November 06, 2009 09:03 PM EST --
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A Danish tourist died Friday, two days after being shot by robbers who tried to steal his camera while he visited a cemetery. Police said two suspected gang members had been . . .
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November 07, 2009 02:25 AM EST --
FILAS DE MARICHES, Venezuela (AP) — While a drought has put Caracas under widespread water rationing for the first time in years, for Venezuelans in this hillside slum it's just more of the same. . . .
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November 06, 2009 06:39 PM EST --
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Populist leaders around Latin America are increasingly making legal and political moves to silence their media critics, the president of the Inter American Press Association . . .
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November 06, 2009 07:15 PM EST --
BOGOTA (AP) — Colombian officials say three adults have been killed and two children wounded in two related anti-personnel mine blasts in the country's northwest.
The top security official in . . .
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November 06, 2009 07:15 PM EST --
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian senators have taken a key first step toward replacing the prime minister they ousted a week ago.
In a 22-0 vote Friday, lawmakers affirmed that planning and . . .
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November 06, 2009 10:51 PM EST --
HAVANA (AP) — A senior Vatican official said Friday he has asked Cuba's government to allow the Roman Catholic Church more access to mass media, saying Cubans are a religious people and should be . . .
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November 06, 2009 10:51 PM EST --
ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — Paraguay needed a military shake-up to create opportunities for young officers with a proven commitment to democracy, President Fernando Lugo said Friday in his first explanation . . .
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November 06, 2009 09:38 PM EST --
HAVANA (AP) — A Cuban blogger who has gained international attention for her searing commentary about life on the communist island said she was briefly detained Friday and warned by state security . . .
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November 06, 2009 09:38 PM EST --
VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico (AP) — A week of torrential rain has flooded the homes of more than 200,000 people along Mexico's Gulf coast, officials said Friday. Residents in some towns complained that . . .
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November 06, 2009 01:34 PM EST --
Although it's not among the 45 stated communist goals to take over America, an important chapter in American history has been expunged. Hawaii was part of Kenya until 1965. That's right. . . .
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October 27, 2009 08:29 PM EDT --
Do you remember when Justice was blind in America? I do. I remember being an Italian kid and being called a wop and a Guinea. It hurt, but it made me tough. Now, we are setting . . .
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November 06, 2009 06:06 AM EST --
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — A negotiator for ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya says a U.S.-brokered pact to end a four-month political crisis has failed after a deadline for forming a unity . . .
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November 06, 2009 03:06 PM EST --
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — Authorities say gunmen have killed a police commander in Mexico's deadliest city, where a dismembered, decapitated body was found hours before.
Police spokesman Jacinto . . .
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November 06, 2009 03:38 PM EST --
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — They can't both be right. Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya says a deal that could have returned him to power is defunct. Roberto Micheletti, who took power after . . .
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November 06, 2009 03:40 PM EST --
PANAMA CITY (AP) — Manuel Solis, who served briefly as president during Manuel Noriega's military regime, died Friday. He was 91.
Solis died at his home from respiratory failure, said Mitchell . . .
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November 06, 2009 09:38 AM EST --
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Former Hurricane Ida drenched Central America as a tropical depression on Friday and forecasters said it had some chance of regaining force and heading toward the U.S. . . .
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November 06, 2009 11:26 PM EST --
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — Mexican police caught a prison official who spent a year on the run from charges of killing a 19-year-old inmate, whose beating death sparked riots that left nearly two dozen . . .
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