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Vote count begins after big Haiti turnout
Feb 7 2006 11:24PM (CT)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Scuffles broke out and polling stations opened hours late Tuesday as masses of Haitians waited _ sometimes in mile-long lines _ to vote under the protection of U.N. peacekeepers crouching behind machine guns and patrolling alongside armored vehicles.
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Mexico complains about American hotel
Feb 7 2006 11:19PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico issued a complaint on Tuesday against an American-owned hotel that _ under pressure from the U.S. government _ expelled a group of Cuban businessmen meeting with U.S. energy executives, saying the company violated investment and trade protection laws.
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Mexican newspaper curtails gang coverage
Feb 7 2006 10:32PM (CT)
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico (AP) - The owner of a Mexican newspaper in this violent border town said Tuesday there will be no more investigative coverage of drug gangs, a day after the paper's offices were sprayed with bullets and a reporter hospitalized with five gunshots.
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Morales asks U.S. to reconsider aid cuts
Feb 7 2006 10:30PM (CT)
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - President Evo Morales asked the United States on Tuesday to reconsider a proposed cut in anti-drug aid to Bolivia, and called on the world to strengthen drug-fighting alliances.
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Costa Rica begins task of counting votes
Feb 7 2006 9:49PM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) - Costa Rican electoral officials began counting votes by hand Tuesday in a laborious effort to determine the winner of one of the country's closest presidential races in history.
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S. American Indians seek new nation
Feb 7 2006 8:29PM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Indians from Brazil and four other South American countries called for the "resurrection" of an Indian nation on Tuesday, the 250th anniversary of the killing of a tribal chief by European soldiers.
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Haiti's top candidate pride of hometown
Feb 7 2006 7:39PM (CT)
MARMELADE, Haiti (AP) - Hours before dawn, people had already started walking the winding, pitted roads of this small mountain town, eager to vote Tuesday in Haiti's first elections in nearly six years.
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Key Colombian paramilitary leader disarms
Feb 7 2006 6:59PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - A founder of Colombia's anti-rebel paramilitary movement laid down his weapon on Tuesday, ending nearly three decades of outlawed, jungle warfare.
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