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Brazilian farm workers damage plantation
Mar 8 2006 11:27PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - About 2,000 highly organized farm workers invaded a plantation owned by a big Brazilian paper and pulp company Wednesday, uprooting a million saplings and destroying a laboratory in an environmental rampage against mass eucalyptus tree cultivation, the company and the protesting group said.
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Peruvian hopeful urges feeding kids coca
Mar 8 2006 11:21PM (CT)
LIMA, Peru (AP) - A Peruvian presidential candidate is offering an unorthodox proposal for child nutrition: pass out bread laced with coca, the raw material for cocaine.
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Mexico's only nuclear plant shuts reactor
Mar 8 2006 10:48PM (CT)
VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) - Mexico's only nuclear power plant was forced to shut one of its two reactors Wednesday because of a damaged electric cable, officials said.
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Dismissal of missing teen lawsuit sought
Mar 8 2006 10:22PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The lawyer for a Dutch youth questioned in the disappearance of a young Alabama woman in Aruba moved on Wednesday to dismiss a lawsuit filed by her parents.
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Venezuelans protest outside U.S. Embassy
Mar 8 2006 10:12PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuelans marched to the U.S. Embassy on Wednesday to demand an end to the Iraq war during a demonstration that coincided with International Women's Day.
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Ecuador troops clash with oil protesters
Mar 8 2006 8:36PM (CT)
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - Soldiers fired tear gas to disperse rock-throwing oil workers Wednesday, hours after President Alfredo Palacio declared a state of emergency in three jungle provinces to quell a strike and regain control of oil installations.
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Venezuelan Congress approves new flag
Mar 8 2006 7:29PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez has pulled Venezuela steadily to the left, and now he's even got the horse on the national flag running that way.
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Brazil army presses search for stolen arms
Mar 8 2006 3:43PM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Army troops and federal highway police set up checkpoints on Rio de Janeiro's major access roads Wednesday, trying to prevent thieves from fleeing with rifles stolen from a Brazilian army barracks last week.
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Small rebel group in Colombia defects
Mar 8 2006 1:43AM (CT)
ALVARADO, Colombia (AP) - A small group of leftist rebels wearing ski masks and brandishing assault weapons renounced their guerrilla army's four-decade-old insurgency in a gesture the government touted ahead of Sunday's congressional elections.
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More than 20,000 miners protest in Mexico
Mar 8 2006 1:11AM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - More than 20,000 union workers marched Tuesday in downtown Mexico City, accusing the government of meddling in the affairs of the national miners union by seeking to oust its leader.
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