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Mexico creates special prosecutor post
Jan 31 2008 10:37PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico has created a new federal position to prosecute violence against women and human exploitation, as rights groups urge the government to do more to investigate the killings of women, especially along the U.S. border.
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Argentine activists take torture center
Jan 31 2008 10:36PM (CT)
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Argentina's Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, who launched a human rights crusade in the late 70s against a bloody dictatorship, took control of a building at a former naval academy that was the junta's chief torture center.
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Mexican farmers protest US trade pact
Jan 31 2008 10:33PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Led by a column of tractors, tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through downtown Mexico City on Thursday to protest recent trade openings that removed the last tariff protections for ancestral Mexican crops like corn and beans.
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Mexican farmers protest US trade pact
Jan 31 2008 10:33PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Led by a column of tractors, tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through downtown Mexico City on Thursday to protest recent trade openings that removed the last tariff protections for ancestral Mexican crops like corn and beans.
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'Missing link' crocodile found in Brazil
Jan 31 2008 10:32PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - The 80 million-year-old remains of a land-bound reptile described as a possible link between prehistoric and modern-day crocodiles were displayed to the public for the first time on Thursday.
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'Missing link' crocodile found in Brazil
Jan 31 2008 10:32PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - The 80 million-year-old remains of a land-bound reptile described as a possible link between prehistoric and modern-day crocodiles were displayed to the public for the first time on Thursday.
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'Missing link' crocodile found in Brazil
Jan 31 2008 10:32PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - The 80 million-year-old remains of a land-bound reptile described as a possible link between prehistoric and modern-day crocodiles were displayed to the public for the first time on Thursday.
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'Missing link' crocodile found in Brazil
Jan 31 2008 10:32PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - The 80 million-year-old remains of a land-bound reptile described as a possible link between prehistoric and modern-day crocodiles were displayed to the public for the first time on Thursday.
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'Missing link' crocodile found in Brazil
Jan 31 2008 10:32PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - The 80 million-year-old remains of a land-bound reptile described as a possible link between prehistoric and modern-day crocodiles were displayed to the public for the first time on Thursday.
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Judge bans Holocaust float in Brazil
Jan 31 2008 7:06PM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - There will be no simulated pile of naked, emaciated corpses _ and no dancing Hitler _ at the world's biggest street party.
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Colombia's top cop seeks extradition
Jan 31 2008 3:02PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - A police colonel sacked for abetting one of Colombia's most-wanted drug traffickers should be extradited to the United States as an example, the country's police chief told The Associated Press on Thursday.
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Chavez border crackdown hits Venezuelans
Jan 31 2008 2:58PM (CT)
URENA, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez's drive to halt food-smuggling into Colombia is hurting thousands of his own countrymen whose livelihood has depended on the free flow of goods across one of South America's most porous borders.
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Chavez border crackdown hits Venezuelans
Jan 31 2008 2:58PM (CT)
URENA, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez's drive to halt food-smuggling into Colombia is hurting thousands of his own countrymen whose livelihood has depended on the free flow of goods across one of South America's most porous borders.
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Chavez border crackdown hits Venezuelans
Jan 31 2008 2:58PM (CT)
URENA, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez's drive to halt food-smuggling into Colombia is hurting thousands of his own countrymen whose livelihood has depended on the free flow of goods across one of South America's most porous borders.
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Chavez border crackdown hits Venezuelans
Jan 31 2008 2:58PM (CT)
URENA, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez's drive to halt food-smuggling into Colombia is hurting thousands of his own countrymen whose livelihood has depended on the free flow of goods across one of South America's most porous borders.
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Chavez border crackdown hits Venezuelans
Jan 31 2008 2:58PM (CT)
URENA, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez's drive to halt food-smuggling into Colombia is hurting thousands of his own countrymen whose livelihood has depended on the free flow of goods across one of South America's most porous borders.
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Chavez border crackdown hits Venezuelans
Jan 31 2008 2:58PM (CT)
URENA, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez's drive to halt food-smuggling into Colombia is hurting thousands of his own countrymen whose livelihood has depended on the free flow of goods across one of South America's most porous borders.
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Chavez border crackdown hits Venezuelans
Jan 31 2008 2:58PM (CT)
URENA, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez's drive to halt food-smuggling into Colombia is hurting thousands of his own countrymen whose livelihood has depended on the free flow of goods across one of South America's most porous borders.
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Police: New evidence in Holloway case
Jan 31 2008 2:58PM (CT)
ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) - Aruban prosecutors said Thursday that authorities are investigating new information in the Natalee Holloway case provided by a Dutch crime reporter.
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Reports: Silva questions deforestation
Jan 31 2008 9:07AM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - A reported jump in the rate of Amazon deforestation is unproven despite a government crackdown on tree cutting, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said in comments published Thursday.
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Puerto Rico teachers delay strike
Jan 31 2008 8:28AM (CT)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Puerto Rican teachers will remain on the job at least through next week, putting off a strike that had been threatened to start as early as Friday, the head of their union said.
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