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Colombian rebels free 4 hostages
Feb 27 2008 10:50PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Colombian rebels freed four lawmakers Wednesday after six years of captivity, the guerrillas' second hostage release this year as they seek to persuade the international community to strike them from lists of terrorist groups.
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Colombian rebels free 4 hostages
Feb 27 2008 10:50PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Colombian rebels freed four lawmakers Wednesday after six years of captivity, the guerrillas' second hostage release this year as they seek to persuade the international community to strike them from lists of terrorist groups.
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Colombian rebels free 4 hostages
Feb 27 2008 10:50PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Colombian rebels freed four lawmakers Wednesday after six years of captivity, the guerrillas' second hostage release this year as they seek to persuade the international community to strike them from lists of terrorist groups.
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Colombian rebels free 4 hostages
Feb 27 2008 10:50PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Colombian rebels freed four lawmakers Wednesday after six years of captivity, the guerrillas' second hostage release this year as they seek to persuade the international community to strike them from lists of terrorist groups.
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Colombian rebels free 4 hostages
Feb 27 2008 10:50PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Colombian rebels freed four lawmakers Wednesday after six years of captivity, the guerrillas' second hostage release this year as they seek to persuade the international community to strike them from lists of terrorist groups.
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2 brothers sentenced for 1997 massacre
Feb 27 2008 10:50PM (CT)
SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico (AP) - A Mexican judge has sentenced two brothers to 26 years in prison for their participation in the 1997 massacre of 45 men, women and children in southern Chiapas state.
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Freed hostage: 3 Americans ailing
Feb 27 2008 8:43PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - On top of tropical ailments, the three U.S. military contractors held by Colombian rebels still suffer injuries from the plane crash five years ago that landed them in guerrilla hands, said a fellow hostage released Wednesday.
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Defense stalls in Sept. 11 case at Gitmo
Feb 27 2008 8:11PM (CT)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - The military is speeding ahead with plans to try six men at Guantanamo Bay for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks but none of the defendants, who face possible execution if found guilty, has seen a defense lawyer yet.
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Mexican drug tunnel makers sentenced
Feb 27 2008 8:09PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Four suspected drug traffickers were sentenced to up to 16 years in prison for digging and operating a tunnel between the U.S. and Mexico, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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Costa Rica wins CAFTA delay
Feb 27 2008 8:09PM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) - Costa Rica has until Oct. 1 to implement the Central American Free Trade Agreement with the U.S., the president said Wednesday.
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US parents seek answers in Mexico death
Feb 27 2008 7:57PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - The parents of an American journalist slain in southern Mexico said Wednesday they were unsatisfied with the progress authorities have made in the case and will have outside investigators review video footage and forensic evidence.
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WHO cites urban yellow fever threat
Feb 27 2008 3:47PM (CT)
GENEVA (AP) - The U.N. health agency said Wednesday it is closely monitoring vaccine supplies for yellow fever as it confirmed the first cases of the deadly disease in a Latin American urban area in six decades.
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Small plane crash kills 11 in Chile
Feb 27 2008 3:44PM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - A small police plane crashed Wednesday at a sports field in Chile's capital, killing all six aboard and five on the ground, authorities reported.
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Poet's granddaughter seeks killing probe
Feb 27 2008 3:43PM (CT)
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) - The granddaughter of Argentine poet Juan Gelman urged Uruguayan courts to reopen a probe into the 1976 disappearance of her dissident mother on Wednesday, weeks before her grandfather is to receive the Spanish-speaking world's most prestigious literary prize.
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Poet's granddaughter seeks killing probe
Feb 27 2008 3:43PM (CT)
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) - The granddaughter of Argentine poet Juan Gelman urged Uruguayan courts to reopen a probe into the 1976 disappearance of her dissident mother on Wednesday, weeks before her grandfather is to receive the Spanish-speaking world's most prestigious literary prize.
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Poet's granddaughter seeks killing probe
Feb 27 2008 3:43PM (CT)
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) - The granddaughter of Argentine poet Juan Gelman urged Uruguayan courts to reopen a probe into the 1976 disappearance of her dissident mother on Wednesday, weeks before her grandfather is to receive the Spanish-speaking world's most prestigious literary prize.
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Mexico says drug traffickers behind bomb
Feb 27 2008 3:42PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - A major drug trafficking organization was behind a recent bombing in the capital that killed one person and injured another, Mexican authorities said Wednesday.
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Missing WWII plane found in Costa Rica
Feb 27 2008 2:45PM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) - Farmers in the mountains of Costa Rica found a Chilean air force plane that disappeared during World War II while flying from Texas to Chile.
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Strike deals blow to Puerto Rico schools
Feb 27 2008 2:23PM (CT)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Empty classrooms, educators clashing with police, anxious students _ a weeklong teachers strike in Puerto Rico is dealing a blow to a public school system already struggling to reach U.S. benchmarks and reduce the highest dropout rate in America.
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Strike deals blow to Puerto Rico schools
Feb 27 2008 2:23PM (CT)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Empty classrooms, educators clashing with police, anxious students _ a weeklong teachers strike in Puerto Rico is dealing a blow to a public school system already struggling to reach U.S. benchmarks and reduce the highest dropout rate in America.
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Strike deals blow to Puerto Rico schools
Feb 27 2008 2:23PM (CT)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Empty classrooms, educators clashing with police, anxious students _ a weeklong teachers strike in Puerto Rico is dealing a blow to a public school system already struggling to reach U.S. benchmarks and reduce the highest dropout rate in America.
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Mexico lawmakers OK presumed innocence
Feb 27 2008 12:11PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican lawmakers overwhelmingly approved a sweeping judicial reform that would introduce public, oral trials and guarantee the presumption of innocence, after deleting a proposal to allow police to search homes without warrants.
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2 bodies found in Brazil copter wreck
Feb 27 2008 10:26AM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Rescuers located two bodies Wednesday inside the sunken wreck of a helicopter forced down at sea, bringing the death toll to three. Two others remain missing.
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4 Colombian captives' release expected
Feb 27 2008 5:27AM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Colombia has given the Red Cross the go-ahead for a pair of Venezuelan helicopters to fly into the country on Wednesday to recover four hostages held by rebels for more than six years, a Red Cross official said.
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Raul Castro meets with Vatican No. 2
Feb 27 2008 1:38AM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - The Vatican's No. 2 official expressed the Roman Catholic Church's concern about prisoners in Cuba during a Tuesday meeting with President Raul Castro, but stopped short of asking the communist government to free inmates.
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