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Mexico's Senate considers abortion bill
Mar 20 2007 11:22PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Senators from Mexico's largest leftist party on Tuesday sent a bill proposing to legalize abortion nationwide, a measure strongly opposed by the nation's conservative and Roman Catholic leaders.
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Peru soldiers kill 3 leftist rebels
Mar 20 2007 10:52PM (CT)
AYACUCHO, Peru (AP) - Three suspected leftist rebels were shot to death in a clash with troops in Peru's highland jungle Tuesday, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
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Ecuador swears in 21 alternate lawmakers
Mar 20 2007 9:06PM (CT)
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - Ecuador's constitutional crisis took a new twist as alternate lawmakers were escorted into Congress under the cover of darkness Tuesday and sworn in to replace some of the legislators fired by the country's highest electoral court.
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4 held in deaths of Salvador lawmakers
Mar 20 2007 8:21PM (CT)
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - Four people were arrested Tuesday on suspicion of being among those who orchestrated the killings of three Salvadoran politicians and their driver, Guatemala's interior minister said.
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Cuba supporters break up prison protest
Mar 20 2007 6:59PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - Government supporters broke up a public protest Tuesday by prisoners' wives who intermittently shouted "Freedom! Freedom!" as they marched through a neighborhood in the capital to mark the crackdown that put their loved ones behind bars.
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Court orders Smith baby paternity test
Mar 20 2007 6:47PM (CT)
NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) - A Bahamian judge ordered a DNA test Tuesday on Anna Nicole Smith's infant daughter to identify the girl's father, an attorney for the baby's grandmother said, the latest chapter in a bitter custody feud sparked by the pinup's death last month.
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Colombia seeks 8 in Chiquita payments
Mar 20 2007 5:17PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Colombia's chief prosecutor said Tuesday he will demand the extradition of eight people allegedly involved with Chiquita's payments to right-wing paramilitaries and leftist rebels in a region where it had profitable banana-growing operations.
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5 Mexican mine managers ordered arrested
Mar 20 2007 2:08AM (CT)
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico (AP) - A judge has ordered the arrest of five mine managers and inspectors on charges of negligent homicide in the deaths of 65 coal miners killed in an underground gas explosion last year, company and state officials said Monday.
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