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Stressed Mexican police chief resigns
Mar 24 2006 11:21PM (CT)
MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) - The former police chief of the border city of Nuevo Laredo on Friday said he resigned because he was tired from the stress of working in a city dominated by drug cartels fighting a bloody turf war.
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Mexican government fines Sheraton Hotel
Mar 24 2006 10:55PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - A U.S.-owned hotel that expelled Cuban guests under pressure from the Treasury Department must pay $112,000 in fines for violating Mexican commerce law, the Mexican government said Friday.
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Passengers praise ship crew after fire
Mar 24 2006 10:29PM (CT)
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica (AP) - Some of the passengers were stirred from sleep by the smell of smoke. Others were jolted awake by a fire alarm, then startled to see sparks drifting past the ship's windows in the Caribbean moonlight.
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U.S. diplomat urges Haitians to vote
Mar 24 2006 9:48PM (CT)
CAPOTILLE, Haiti (AP) - A top U.S. diplomat urged Haitians Friday to cast ballots in next month's legislative runoff, saying a democratically elected government was crucial to the impoverished country's development.
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Plane crash in Ecuador kills five people
Mar 24 2006 7:49PM (CT)
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - A plane crashed into the side of a tire factory Friday in southern Ecuador, killing five of the 14 people aboard, police said.
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Repatriated Cuban migrants get visa OK
Mar 24 2006 6:57PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - A group of Cuban migrants who reached an abandoned bridge in the Florida Keys only to be sent back to Cuba received official confirmation from American officials on Friday that they can return to the United States for good on humanitarian visas.
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Argentines mark 30 years since coup
Mar 24 2006 4:21PM (CT)
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Argentina's president grimly shouted "Never Again!" as he marked Friday's 30th anniversary of a military coup by remembering the thousands of people killed during the ensuing seven-year dictatorship.
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Chile sends bodies of Americans to U.S.
Mar 24 2006 12:14PM (CT)
ARICA, Chile (AP) - The bodies of 12 elderly American tourists killed in a bus crash in the mountains of northern Chile were sent home Friday, along with two New Jersey men who survived.
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Families search for Dirty War's missing
Mar 24 2006 6:04AM (CT)
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Clara Petrakos knows this much: the baby was born on the floor of a clandestine detention center during Argentina's Dirty War. Now, 29 years later, Petrakos is searching for the sister she never knew.
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Ecuador's Indian movement halts protests
Mar 24 2006 3:18AM (CT)
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - Hundreds of Indians started long marches back to their highland villages, halting 11 days of roadblocks and violent demonstrations against Ecuador's free-trade talks with Washington.
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American charged in deadly Bolivia blasts
Mar 24 2006 12:10AM (CT)
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - An American said he had "done nothing" wrong as a Bolivian judge formally charged him and his Uruguayan lover with murder Thursday in the hotel bombings that killed two people and wounded seven in La Paz.
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