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Haitian officials may discount blank votes
Feb 15 2006 11:56PM (CT)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Haiti's interim government and electoral council were considering a plan to declare front-runner Rene Preval the winner of disputed presidential elections by subtracting blank votes from the vote count total, officials close to the talks said Wednesday.
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Paramilitary groups disarm in Colombia
Feb 15 2006 10:03PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Hundreds of paramilitary fighters handed in their weapons and renounced violence Wednesday in a ceremony in southern Colombia, the country's peace commissioner said.
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Bus crash kills 23 in central Mexico
Feb 15 2006 10:01PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - A bus careened off a windy highway and into a ravine in central Mexico's Sierra Gorda mountains Wednesday, killing 23 people and injuring 14, authorities said.
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Colombian rebels kill six police guards
Feb 15 2006 9:55PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Rebels attacked a crew that was removing coca plants from one of Colombia's national parks and killed at least six police guards Wednesday, authorities said.
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Venezuela, U.S. resume dialogue after rift
Feb 15 2006 9:52PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuelan and U.S. diplomats have begun talking again after a political rift that led to the expulsion of embassy officials and threats by the South American country to cut off oil shipments, Washington's ambassador to Venezuela said Wednesday.
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Vatican calls Turkey trip a critical test
Feb 15 2006 4:50PM (CT)
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (AP) - A planned papal trip to Turkey will be a critical test of Christian-Muslim relations, a top Roman Catholic official said Wednesday, citing a priest's slaying that a Vatican newspaper has linked to protests over cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
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Nukes deplored at Christian gathering
Feb 15 2006 2:54PM (CT)
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (AP) - The spread of nuclear weapons technology is "an outrage to all humanity" in an unstable world of terrorism networks and increasing violence in the name of religion, the head of the largest alliance of Christian churches said Wednesday.
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Chile authorizes gold mining project
Feb 15 2006 2:44PM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Ambitious plans for an open-pit mine high in the Andes mountains were unanimously approved Wednesday by a Chilean environmental agency, but the project's future remained unclear because the agency rejected its most controversial aspect _ relocating three glaciers to reach the gold underneath.
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