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Colombia denies militia collaboration
Mar 25 2007 10:09PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - President Alvaro Uribe on Sunday rejected allegations in a leaked CIA report that his army chief collaborated extensively with right-wing militias accused of some of the worst atrocities in Colombia's long-running civil conflict.
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Chavez lays out collective property plan
Mar 25 2007 9:50PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that his administration plans to create "collective property" as part of sweeping reforms toward socialism, and that officials would move to seize control of large ranches and redistribute lands deemed "idle."
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Australian faces new Guantanamo trial
Mar 25 2007 8:48PM (CT)
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - After a nomadic decade that carried him from the Australian outback to the battlefields of Afghanistan, David Hicks ended up locked away at this remote U.S. base in Cuba, accused of training with al-Qaida and fighting for the Taliban.
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Caribbean remembers end of slave trade
Mar 25 2007 8:11PM (CT)
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) - People across the Caribbean bowed their heads for a moment of silence Sunday to mark the 200th anniversary of the end of Britain's trans-Atlantic slave trade, which claimed millions of lives and shaped the region's history.
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Tapes may show cricket coach's killer
Mar 25 2007 8:10PM (CT)
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) - Security video from the hotel where Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer was strangled may contain images of the killer or killers, but police needed more time to analyze the footage because of the cameras' limited scope, authorities said Sunday.
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Colombians seek extradition of U.S. bana
Mar 25 2007 12:44PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - In a March 16 story about Chiquita's payments to Colombia's far-right paramilitaries, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the legal representative of the company's Colombian subsidiary, Giovanny Hurtado Torres, was convicted of smuggling arms on behalf of paramilitaries. Hurtado was jailed for a year in the arms smuggling investigation but released when prosecutors dropped the charges, citing insufficient evidence.
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Cartagena losing fight against poverty
Mar 25 2007 11:07AM (CT)
CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) - A colonial gem with the country's priciest real estate, this Caribbean city is Colombia's pride _ increasingly popular as a port of call for cruise ships, and aspiring to be the new Cancun with a frenzy of luxury construction.
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Cartagena losing fight against poverty
Mar 25 2007 11:07AM (CT)
CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) - A colonial gem with the country's priciest real estate, this Caribbean city is Colombia's pride _ increasingly popular as a port of call for cruise ships, and aspiring to be the new Cancun with a frenzy of luxury construction.
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Cartagena losing fight against poverty
Mar 25 2007 11:07AM (CT)
CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) - A colonial gem with the country's priciest real estate, this Caribbean city is Colombia's pride _ increasingly popular as a port of call for cruise ships, and aspiring to be the new Cancun with a frenzy of luxury construction.
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