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Ex-Mexican general's daughter killed
Mar 18 2007 9:36PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - The daughter of a retired Mexican general and her husband were shot to death in a wealthy Mexico City neighborhood, raising fears the army is being targeted for attacks because of its broadening role in law enforcement, police said.
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Chavez presses to unify socialists
Mar 18 2007 9:33PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez on Sunday urged some of his political allies who are resisting his plan to form a single socialist party to leave his movement and go their own way, saying he hopes the split will be amicable even if they defect to the opposition.
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Commuting in Cuba means hitching a ride
Mar 18 2007 3:52PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - Laura Garcia doesn't have a car, and the change in her pocket won't cover the 15-cent bus fare. But standing by a crumbling overpass, sweating in her shorts, sunglasses and skimpy top, the 18-year-old says a free ride is only an outstretched thumb away.
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Commuting in Cuba means hitching a ride
Mar 18 2007 3:52PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - Laura Garcia doesn't have a car, and the change in her pocket won't cover the 15-cent bus fare. But standing by a crumbling overpass, sweating in her shorts, sunglasses and skimpy top, the 18-year-old says a free ride is only an outstretched thumb away.
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Italian fugitive-turned-writer arrested
Mar 18 2007 3:48PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Accused of killings in his native Italy, militant 1970s leftist Cesare Battisti reinvented himself in France as a celebrated writer of police thrillers. But Paris got tougher on suspected terrorists and Battisti went on the run again in 2004, disappearing, apparently with the help of a French "support committee."
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Mexican state police arrested in raid
Mar 18 2007 6:29AM (CT)
VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico (AP) - Hundreds of Mexican federal police and soldiers surrounded the headquarters of Tabasco's state police and arrested top current and former commanders in a raid apparently linked to an assassination attempt against the state's public safety secretary.
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