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Ex-president Arias leads Costa Rica polls
Jan 24 2006 11:32PM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) - Former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias was heavily favored in his bid for Costa Rica's presidency in a poll published Tuesday.
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Four killed in prison riot in Brazil
Jan 24 2006 11:02PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Rebellious inmates ended a one-day prison uprising in Brazil's remote Amazon jungle state of Rondonia on Tuesday that left four dead, a police official said. They released their two hostages _ the prison's warden and security director.
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Activists rally in Caracas against Iraq
Jan 24 2006 10:15PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - To the beat of drums and trilling whistles, thousands of activists from around the world showed their opposition to globalization and the Iraq war at the opening Tuesday of the World Social Forum backed by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
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Leader of El Salvador's leftist party dies
Jan 24 2006 9:27PM (CT)
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) - Shafik Handal, leader of the Salvadoran left and an ex-guerrilla commander who fought U.S.-backed troops during the country's 12-year civil war, died Tuesday of a heart attack, doctors and his political party said. He was 75.
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S. Korean president wants U.S. agreement
Jan 24 2006 9:17PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea's president said Wednesday that he hopes for for an agreement this year on taking back wartime control of the country's military from the United States.
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Hundreds march through Haitian slum
Jan 24 2006 9:04PM (CT)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - About 300 protesters, including top gang leaders, marched Tuesday through a bullet-scarred slum on the edge of Haiti's capital, accusing U.N. troops of shooting civilians and demanding polling sites for Feb. 7 elections.
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Mexico launches own youth campaign
Jan 24 2006 8:23PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - A Mexican group has launched its own version of the U.S. Rock the Vote campaign, aimed at persuading young and apathetic voters to cast ballots in the July 2 presidential election.
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Mexican commission to give migrants maps
Jan 24 2006 6:27PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - A Mexican government commission said Tuesday it will distribute at least 70,000 maps showing highways, rescue beacons and water tanks in the Arizona desert to curb the death toll among illegal border crossers.
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U.S.-Canada relations expected to improve
Jan 24 2006 5:42PM (CT)
OTTAWA (AP) - Strained relations between the world's largest trading partners were expected to improve after the election of Conservative leader Stephen Harper as Canada's next prime minister.
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Castro directs anti-U.S. march in Havana
Jan 24 2006 5:36PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - Fidel Castro directed a vast protest march past the U.S. mission here Tuesday, accusing the United States of preparing to free one of the hemisphere's worst terrorists as thousands of Cubans carried signs equating President Bush with Hitler.
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