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Canada election campaign growing nasty
Jan 11 2006 11:00PM (CT)
TORONTO (AP) - Strong polling gains by Conservatives put Prime Minister Paul Martin's Liberal Party on the defense Wednesday as campaigning for a new Canadian government grew increasingly ugly in its final days.
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Mexican court rejects 'dirty war' appeal
Jan 11 2006 10:44PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico's high court Wednesday rejected the latest attempt by special prosecutors to try former President Luis Echeverria for genocide in the massacre of students during a 1968 demonstration.
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Mexican presidential candidate on the rise
Jan 11 2006 10:42PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Ruling-party presidential hopeful Felipe Calderon registered his campaign with election officials Wednesday, saying he understands the problems facing common Mexicans and will stem the flow of migrants who head north in search of higher-paying jobs.
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Guantanamo detainee boycotts U.S. hearing
Jan 11 2006 10:06PM (CT)
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - A Yemeni man accused of being Osama bin Laden's former bodyguard told a U.S. military tribunal Wednesday he regarded Americans as enemies and announced he would boycott the hearings, which proceeded anyway.
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Bodies of 24 Haitians found in Dominican
Jan 11 2006 8:56PM (CT)
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) - The bodies of 24 Haitian migrants who apparently suffocated crossing the border in a sealed truck have been found in the Dominican Republic, police said Wednesday.
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Housing shortage grows tense in Caracas
Jan 11 2006 8:45PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - The gun-wielding crowd burst into the building, but screaming residents banging on pots and pans drove the would-be squatters away _ one of many clashes spurred by the housing shortage in Venezuela's capital.
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Proposed condom law irks Colombia priests
Jan 11 2006 5:20PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Roman Catholic priests in a Colombian town are furious over a councilman's proposal that people 14 and older must carry a condom at all times to reduce unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.
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Guantanamo prison passes 4th anniversary
Jan 11 2006 4:34PM (CT)
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - Four years after the first detainees in the U.S. war on terrorism were brought to makeshift jails at Guantanamo, construction workers in hard hats are putting up a two-story complex modeled after a mainland maximum-security prison.
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Pinochet stripped of legal immunity
Jan 11 2006 2:39PM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - An appeals court stripped Gen. Augusto Pinochet of his legal immunity Wednesday, a ruling that paved the way for the former dictator to stand trial on charges of responsibility for killing two bodyguards of the Marxist president he toppled in a bloody 1973 coup.
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