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Netherlands Antilles hold final elections
Jan 27 2006 11:56PM (CT)
PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten (AP) - Five Caribbean islands on Friday held their last parliamentary elections as members of a unified Netherlands Antilles.
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Bolivian president slashes salary in half
Jan 27 2006 11:06PM (CT)
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - President Evo Morales cut his salary by more than half and declared no Cabinet minister can collect a higher wage than his own, with the savings to be used to hire more public school teachers.
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Container ships collide off Peru coast
Jan 27 2006 10:59PM (CT)
CALLAO, Peru (AP) - A Panamanian ship collided with two other vessels near the Peruvian port of Callao Friday, splitting in two and leaving one sailor missing, officials said.
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Chavez says he will jail U.S. spies
Jan 27 2006 10:49PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called the U.S. government an "immoral empire" and repeated accusations of spying Friday, threatening to arrest any American officials caught gathering intelligence on his military.
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Mexican farm leader gets 37 years in death
Jan 27 2006 9:24PM (CT)
TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico (AP) - The leader of a farmers' group in Mexico's southern Chiapas state was convicted Friday in the slayings of eight peasants and sentenced to 37 years in prison.
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Honduras inaugurates new president
Jan 27 2006 7:42PM (CT)
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) - Manuel Zelaya was inaugurated Friday as Honduras' new president with promises to fight corruption and help criminal and gang members become useful citizens.
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Mexican police say anger spurred killer
Jan 27 2006 7:10PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - A female wrestler suspected of killing at least 10 elderly women in Mexico City said she acted out of anger, apparently because her mother abandoned her and she was sexually abused, according to police and a videotaped confession broadcast Friday.
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U.S. seeks eight tied to passport ring
Jan 27 2006 3:53PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - The United States on Friday asked for the extradition of eight people arrested as part of a sting operation to dismantle a false-passport ring, although U.S. officials disputed Colombian suggestions the suspects were linked to Middle East terrorists.
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Activists hold separate forum in Venezuela
Jan 27 2006 6:10AM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - The World Social Forum started as an alternative to the market-friendly World Economic Forum, but now there's an alternative to the alternative.
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Mexico-U.S. relations deteriorating
Jan 27 2006 4:45AM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - It has been a trying week for Mexico-U.S. relations: a tense border confrontation between U.S. agents and apparent drug traffickers, a Mexican group's offer to print maps of the Arizona desert for illegal migrants and an exchange of terse diplomatic notes.
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