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Nations vow to improve status of women
Mar 8 2007 11:59PM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Chile's first female president marked International Women's Day on Thursday saying women were in politics "to stay," while German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Europe must do more to bring about gender equality.
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Nations vow to improve status of women
Mar 8 2007 11:59PM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Chile's first female president marked International Women's Day on Thursday saying women were in politics "to stay," while German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Europe must do more to bring about gender equality.
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Nations vow to improve status of women
Mar 8 2007 11:59PM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Chile's first female president marked International Women's Day on Thursday saying women were in politics "to stay," while German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Europe must do more to bring about gender equality.
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Nations vow to improve status of women
Mar 8 2007 11:59PM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Chile's first female president marked International Women's Day on Thursday saying women were in politics "to stay," while German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Europe must do more to bring about gender equality.
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Nations vow to improve status of women
Mar 8 2007 11:59PM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Chile's first female president marked International Women's Day on Thursday saying women were in politics "to stay," while German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Europe must do more to bring about gender equality.
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Brazil police battle Bush protesters
Mar 8 2007 11:04PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Police clashed Thursday with Brazilians protesting a visit by President Bush and his push for an ethanol energy alliance, while dozens of students in Colombia showed their opposition by lobbing rocks and explosives at authorities.
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Colombian president pleads for U.S. aid
Mar 8 2007 10:34PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Facing skeptics in the new Democratic-led U.S. Congress, President Alvaro Uribe pleaded with the American public to continue a $700 million annual aid package that he credits for making his violence-tortured nation more peaceful and less corrupt.
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Argentine ex-president ordered detained
Mar 8 2007 10:31PM (CT)
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - A federal judge Thursday ordered former de facto president Reynaldo Bignone arrested in connection with human rights abuses stemming from Argentina's 1976-83 dictatorship, local media reported.
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Colombian minister decries Web cartoon
Mar 8 2007 5:39PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - With a cast of leering far-right paramilitaries, smiling skeletons climbing from mass graves and a buffoonish George W. Bush, an animated Internet cartoon that criticizes Colombia's peace process has prompted a rebuke from the nation's foreign minister.
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Ecuador police bar suspended lawmakers
Mar 8 2007 2:18PM (CT)
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - Police surrounded Ecuador's Congress on Thursday to keep out dozens of lawmakers who were fired a day earlier by four electoral judges the lawmakers had sought to impeach in the latest constitutional crisis for the small Andean nation.
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Guatemalan farmer waits to meet Bush
Mar 8 2007 3:45AM (CT)
CHIRIJUYU, Guatemala (AP) - Mariano Canu can't stop smiling as he looks out on his lettuce crop. With the help of U.S. government aid, he exports vegetables across Central America and is no longer struggling just to get by.
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Body of shooting victim stolen in Mexico
Mar 8 2007 12:55AM (CT)
VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) - The body of a man killed in a shootout during a clandestine horse race last weekend was stolen from its freshly dug grave in Mexico's Gulf coast state of Veracruz, an official said Wednesday.
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