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Scholar: US sought help in Bolivia
Feb 8 2008 10:57PM (CT)
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - An American scholar said Friday that an official at the U.S. Embassy asked him to keep tabs on Venezuelan and Cuban workers in Bolivia. Washington said that any such request would be an error and against U.S. policy.
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Gitmo has makeover to reduce hostilities
Feb 8 2008 8:18PM (CT)
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - Seeking to ease conditions for angry and frustrated Guantanamo detainees, the commander of the prison camps has instituted language classes, a literacy program and wants to open communal areas for men held in isolation 22 hours a day.
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Gitmo has makeover to reduce hostilities
Feb 8 2008 8:18PM (CT)
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - Seeking to ease conditions for angry and frustrated Guantanamo detainees, the commander of the prison camps has instituted language classes, a literacy program and wants to open communal areas for men held in isolation 22 hours a day.
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Dutch man questioned in Holloway case
Feb 8 2008 3:41PM (CT)
ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) - Aruban investigators in the Netherlands again questioned a Dutch college student Friday in the Natalee Holloway disappearance as they sought a court order to detain him as a suspect based on a hidden-camera interview.
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UN official: Waterboarding is torture
Feb 8 2008 3:12PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - The United Nations' top human rights official said Friday that waterboarding _ a tactic used by the U.S. in its battle against terror _ qualifies as torture.
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UN official: Waterboarding is torture
Feb 8 2008 3:12PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - The United Nations' top human rights official said Friday that waterboarding _ a tactic used by the U.S. in its battle against terror _ qualifies as torture.
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Belize gets new leader
Feb 8 2008 12:59PM (CT)
BELIZE CITY (AP) - Belize's opposition United Democratic Party won a landslide victory in general elections, ending Prime Minister Said Musa's 10 years in office.
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Bolivia seeks aid to battle floods
Feb 8 2008 1:22AM (CT)
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - Bolivia's foreign minister said Thursday that the world has an obligation to send aid to flood-ravaged areas of Bolivia, linking a disaster that has killed 49 people to global climate change.
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Mexico makes marijuana, gun bust
Feb 8 2008 1:19AM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican soldiers seized nearly 10 tons of marijuana, a machine gun, scores of assault rifles and three grenades in a raid Thursday just across the border from Texas, the military said.
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Judge mulls bin Laden's driver request
Feb 8 2008 12:08AM (CT)
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - A U.S. military judge was considering a request Thursday by lawyers for Osama bin Laden's driver to interview the confessed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks _ a man they say could prove their client was no terrorist.
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