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Clerics unite against abortion bill
Mar 21 2007 11:05PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Religious leaders said Wednesday they have formed a united front against bills to legalize abortion in Mexico, an issue that has divided the nation and drawn in conservative President Felipe Calderon.
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Spanish specialists unveil language exam
Mar 21 2007 10:49PM (CT)
MEDELLIN, Colombia (AP) - Se habla espanol? An estimated 14 million people who study Spanish soon may be able to measure their proficiency with a test language specialists hope will become the Spanish-language equivalent to the widely accepted Test of English as a Foreign Language, or TOEFL.
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Cuba seeks return of 5 spies from U.S.
Mar 21 2007 10:09PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - Their faces smile down from billboards along major highways, their poetry and humor are bound into books, and minor developments in their lives are meticulously recorded by Cuba's state media. Five Cuban spies imprisoned in the U.S. for being unregistered foreign agents are vilified in Miami as dangerous conspirators. But here they're considered "Heroic Prisoners of the Empire" who only sought to protect Cuba from anti-communist terrorists. During Cuba's annual May 1 workers parade
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Council to oversee Guatemala archives
Mar 21 2007 9:46PM (CT)
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - A newly created international council of experts will oversee and protect extensive police archives exposing atrocities committed during Guatemala's 36-year civil war, a top human rights official said Wednesday.
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Pinochet-era victims exhumed in Chile
Mar 21 2007 9:01PM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Authorities on Tuesday began exhuming the remains of dozens of victims of repression under the 1973-90 dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet in a renewed effort to determine their identities.
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