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Venezuela gunmen captured after standoff
Jan 29 2008 9:32PM (CT)
ALTAGRACIA DE ORITUCO, Venezuela (AP) - Gunmen who held dozens of hostages inside a Venezuelan bank for more than a day fled in an ambulance but were caught Tuesday along a roadside, where they surrendered and freed their last five captives.
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Venezuela gunmen captured after standoff
Jan 29 2008 9:32PM (CT)
ALTAGRACIA DE ORITUCO, Venezuela (AP) - Gunmen who held dozens of hostages inside a Venezuelan bank for more than a day fled in an ambulance but were caught Tuesday along a roadside, where they surrendered and freed their last five captives.
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Venezuela gunmen captured after standoff
Jan 29 2008 9:32PM (CT)
ALTAGRACIA DE ORITUCO, Venezuela (AP) - Gunmen who held dozens of hostages inside a Venezuelan bank for more than a day fled in an ambulance but were caught Tuesday along a roadside, where they surrendered and freed their last five captives.
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Poor Haitians resort to eating dirt
Jan 29 2008 7:43PM (CT)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - It was lunchtime in one of Haiti's worst slums, and Charlene Dumas was eating mud. With food prices rising, Haiti's poorest can't afford even a daily plate of rice, and some take desperate measures to fill their bellies. Charlene, 16 with a 1-month-old son, has come to rely on a traditional Haitian remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt from the country's central plateau.
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Poor Haitians resort to eating dirt
Jan 29 2008 7:43PM (CT)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - It was lunchtime in one of Haiti's worst slums, and Charlene Dumas was eating mud. With food prices rising, Haiti's poorest can't afford even a daily plate of rice, and some take desperate measures to fill their bellies. Charlene, 16 with a 1-month-old son, has come to rely on a traditional Haitian remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt from the country's central plateau.
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Poor Haitians resort to eating dirt
Jan 29 2008 7:43PM (CT)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - It was lunchtime in one of Haiti's worst slums, and Charlene Dumas was eating mud. With food prices rising, Haiti's poorest can't afford even a daily plate of rice, and some take desperate measures to fill their bellies. Charlene, 16 with a 1-month-old son, has come to rely on a traditional Haitian remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt from the country's central plateau.
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Poor Haitians resort to eating dirt
Jan 29 2008 7:43PM (CT)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - It was lunchtime in one of Haiti's worst slums, and Charlene Dumas was eating mud. With food prices rising, Haiti's poorest can't afford even a daily plate of rice, and some take desperate measures to fill their bellies. Charlene, 16 with a 1-month-old son, has come to rely on a traditional Haitian remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt from the country's central plateau.
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Poor Haitians resort to eating dirt
Jan 29 2008 7:43PM (CT)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - It was lunchtime in one of Haiti's worst slums, and Charlene Dumas was eating mud. With food prices rising, Haiti's poorest can't afford even a daily plate of rice, and some take desperate measures to fill their bellies. Charlene, 16 with a 1-month-old son, has come to rely on a traditional Haitian remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt from the country's central plateau.
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2nd migrant flees to Chicago church
Jan 29 2008 3:38PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - A deported Mexican migrant who holed up in a Chicago church to fight for immigrants' rights rallied support Tuesday for another woman now seeking refuge in the same building.
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Argentine Dirty War officers punished
Jan 29 2008 3:37PM (CT)
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Argentina's defense minister barred two retired admirals and a former navy captain from teaching and consulting posts for the military Tuesday, citing possible ties to or sympathies with past human rights abuses.
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Woman seeks answers on brother's fate
Jan 29 2008 3:36PM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - The sister of an American mathematician who vanished in Chile said Tuesday she's frustrated by stalled efforts to find out what happened to him under the former military dictatorship.
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Woman seeks answers on brother's fate
Jan 29 2008 3:36PM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - The sister of an American mathematician who vanished in Chile said Tuesday she's frustrated by stalled efforts to find out what happened to him under the former military dictatorship.
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US Embassy: Mexico seeks missing Marine
Jan 29 2008 3:35PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican officials have ordered police to arrest a U.S. Marine suspected of killing his pregnant colleague and fleeing to Mexico, a U.S. Embassy official said Tuesday. That could lead to his extradition or deportation to the United States.
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Costa Rica to ask for US trade delay
Jan 29 2008 3:34PM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) - President Oscar Arias said Tuesday he will ask the U.S. to delay implementation of a free-trade agreement to give the country time to pass several necessary local laws.
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Mexico issues warrant for missing Marine
Jan 29 2008 11:37AM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican officials have issued an arrest warrant for a U.S. Marine suspected of killing a pregnant colleague who had accused him of rape, a U.S. Embassy official said Tuesday.
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Murdered Mexican singer's group to tour
Jan 29 2008 1:07AM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Members of the K-Paz de la Sierra band vowed to go ahead with a planned tour despite the murder of their lead singer, Sergio Gomez, who was killed Dec. 2 in the latest in a string of slayings of Mexican musicians.
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