Middle East News
European News
Canadian News
Latin American News
Asian News
Australian & Pacific News
African News
|
|
|
|
|
|
Colombia mudslide kills nine young hikers
Mar 19 2006 9:30PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - A mudslide swept down on a scouting expedition in central Colombia, killing nine young hikers and leaving two others missing, authorities said Sunday. The scouts had just been bathing and practicing knots when they were carried away, survivors said.
|
|
|
Latin American leftists redefine politics
Mar 19 2006 8:59PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - These aren't the hide-in-the-hills leftists of yesteryear, ready to take up arms against the oppressor. A new wave of Latin American leaders _ variously labeled leftist, populist, nationalist or socialist _ is redefining politics in a region where U.S.-backed, right-wing dictatorships spent decades crushing their mostly leftist opponents and supporting corporate interests amid fears of inroads by the Soviet Union and its Cuban proxy.
|
|
|
Water problems may be solved in farms
Mar 19 2006 8:07AM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Farms and their wasteful irrigation systems are a major contributor to water scarcity on the globe, nations at a world water summit said Saturday.
|
|
|
|
|
|