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2 killed in Guatemala City sinkhole
Feb 23 2007 11:54PM (CT)
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (AP) - A 330-foot-deep sinkhole killed two teenage siblings when it swallowed about a dozen homes early Friday and forced the evacuation of nearly 1,000 people in a crowded Guatemala City neighborhood.
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2 killed in Guatemala City sinkhole
Feb 23 2007 11:54PM (CT)
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (AP) - A 330-foot-deep sinkhole killed two teenage siblings when it swallowed about a dozen homes early Friday and forced the evacuation of nearly 1,000 people in a crowded Guatemala City neighborhood.
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Paraguay city flights lawless image
Feb 23 2007 10:53PM (CT)
CIUDAD DEL ESTE, Paraguay (AP) - This city on the border where Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay meet has for years battled a reputation as a trading post for weapons, drugs, pirated music and counterfeit designer brands.
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Tourist kills mugger with bare hands
Feb 23 2007 10:40PM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) - An American tourist who watched as a U.S. military veteran in his 70s used his bare hands to kill an armed assailant in Costa Rica said she thought the attempted robbery was a joke _ until the masked attacker held a gun to her head.
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Brazil finance minister was held hostage
Feb 23 2007 8:20PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Brazil's finance minister was taken hostage for hours this week by armed assailants who invaded and robbed a country retreat he was visiting for a barbecue during carnival, officials and Brazilian media said Friday.
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Moderate quake rocks southern Chile
Feb 23 2007 6:49PM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - A moderate earthquake shook southern Chile on Friday in a sparsely populated region that seismologists say has recently seen a series of tremors due to the birth of an undersea volcano.
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Cuba won't renew reporters' credentials
Feb 23 2007 2:03PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - Cuban press authorities have told the Havana correspondents for the Chicago Tribune, the BBC and a major Mexican newspaper that they can no longer report from the island.
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Al-Jazeera cameraman still at Guantanamo
Feb 23 2007 12:06PM (CT)
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - A TV cameraman is getting an inside view of life at Guantanamo Bay prison _ only he is unable to get out and tell the story.
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Aristide predicts he'll return to Haiti
Feb 23 2007 8:52AM (CT)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti's ousted former president, said he will return to the Caribbean nation "once the conditions are right" but has no plans to go back into government.
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Chavez: U.S. trying to sabotage economy
Feb 23 2007 1:20AM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez warned that the U.S. government, allegedly frustrated by failed assassination plots against him, was now planning to sabotage the oil-producing country's economy.
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U.S. Army reservist dies in Panama
Feb 23 2007 12:18AM (CT)
PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) - A U.S. Army reservist died and two others were injured on Thursday in a traffic wreck near the Caribbean coastal province of Bocas del Toro, emergency personnel reported.
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Former Colombia spy chief arrested
Feb 23 2007 12:06AM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - A former director of the secret police under President Alvaro Uribe was arrested Thursday and charged in connection with the murders of labor leaders and academics while collaborating with far-right militias responsible for some of Colombia's worst massacres, his lawyer said.
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