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Hondurans convicted in bus massacre
Mar 12 2008 11:13PM (CT)
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) - Two Honduran gang members were convicted Wednesday of opening fire on a bus and killing 28 people, and each was condemned to the country's maximum 40 years in jail.
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Afghan detainee wants to boycott trial
Mar 12 2008 10:44PM (CT)
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - An Afghan detainee who was forcibly carried out of his cell after refusing to attend a court hearing Wednesday said that he wants to boycott his trial at Guantanamo Bay and railed against the proceedings as unfair and illegal.
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Mexican students condemn Colombia raid
Mar 12 2008 8:55PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - About 100 university students demonstrated outside the Colombian Embassy in Mexico City on Wednesday to demand their government formally condemn Colombia's attack on a rebel camp in Ecuador, which apparently killed four Mexican students.
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Chopper crashes en route from Peru mine
Mar 12 2008 1:50PM (CT)
LIMA, Peru (AP) - A helicopter ferrying passengers from an Anglo-Australian-owned copper mine in the Andes has crashed with 10 people aboard, and the wreckage was spotted from the air Wednesday, police said.
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Guatemala: no amnesty for adoption fraud
Mar 12 2008 3:09AM (CT)
ANTIGUA, Guatemala (AP) - Guatemalan prosecutors have ruled out amnesty for birth mothers who used false identities to surrender their babies to an agency where 46 children being adopted by U.S. families were seized in a raid last August.
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Guatemala: no amnesty for adoption fraud
Mar 12 2008 3:09AM (CT)
ANTIGUA, Guatemala (AP) - Guatemalan prosecutors have ruled out amnesty for birth mothers who used false identities to surrender their babies to an agency where 46 children being adopted by U.S. families were seized in a raid last August.
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Mexican Cabinet secretary investigated
Mar 12 2008 1:25AM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico's federal attorney general's office on Tuesday announced an investigation into allegations of corruption against Interior Secretary Juan Camilo Mourino, a confidant of the president who holds the government's second highest profile job.
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Bolivia funds push for legal coca market
Mar 12 2008 1:23AM (CT)
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - President Evo Morales plans to spend $300,000 to develop legal markets for coca, defying a U.N.-affiliated drug watchdog's call to abolish traditional uses of the leaf long revered in the Andes.
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Gitmo detainees allowed phone calls
Mar 12 2008 12:40AM (CT)
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - The U.S. military said Tuesday that it will allow detainees to make regular phone calls to their families from Guantanamo Bay prison, where many have been confined in extreme isolation for as long as six years.
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