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Prominent businessman killed in Venezuela
Mar 30 2006 11:41PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - The body of a prominent businessman who owned a TV station, newspaper and pasta company was found a day after he was abducted by men wearing police uniforms, authorities said Thursday.
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Bush pushes Congress to OK immigrants
Mar 30 2006 11:13PM (CT)
CANCUN, Mexico (AP) - With Mexican President Vicente Fox at his side, President Bush gave Congress a long-distance push Thursday to open the United States to immigrant workers who have been sneaking across the borders to fill low-paying jobs.
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Guatemalan fireworks explosion kills four
Mar 30 2006 10:49PM (CT)
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - Four people were killed and 12 others were injured in an explosion at a home-based fireworks factory in western Guatemala on Thursday, officials said.
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Uruguay repays IMF debt due in 2006
Mar 30 2006 9:21PM (CT)
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) - Uruguay said Thursday it will repay $630 million to the International Monetary Fund ahead of schedule, clearing all its 2006 obligations to the agency in a sign of the country's improving economic health.
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Jamaica's first female PM sworn in office
Mar 30 2006 7:37PM (CT)
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) - Portia Simpson Miller took office Thursday as Jamaica's first female prime minister, pledging to fight violent crime, root out corruption and protect human rights.
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Chile potato claim perturbs Peru
Mar 30 2006 6:47PM (CT)
LIMA, Peru (AP) - They fought a war over a swath of mineral-rich desert, battled countless times on the soccer field and have even dueled over the origins of a pungent liquor both claim as a national drink.
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Venezuela takes on Exxon Mobil in oil play
Mar 30 2006 5:16PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuela had a blunt message this week for Exxon Mobil, one of the world's most powerful oil companies: Get off my crude-rich turf.
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Immigration issue shadows Cancun meeting
Mar 30 2006 4:36PM (CT)
CANCUN, Mexico (AP) - Dozens of police carrying tear gas rifles manned roadblocks to keep protesters 10 miles from the site where U.S., Mexican and Canadian presidents gathered Thursday to discuss security, immigration and trade.
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Coca eradication way down under Morales
Mar 30 2006 2:42PM (CT)
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - The smell filling the grimy whitewashed rooms of the market in the Villa Fatima district overlooking this Andean capital evokes the sweetness of cut grass _ only it's more pungent, nearly intoxicating.
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Jamaica's first woman PM takes office
Mar 30 2006 4:17AM (CT)
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) - Jamaica's first woman prime minister takes office Thursday, pledging to tackle a crime rate that has made the Caribbean island one of the most dangerous places in the world.
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Haiti badly needs more police
Mar 30 2006 4:16AM (CT)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Gang members, pistols tucked underneath their sport shirts, watch idly from a street corner as children walk to school and housewives carry food home from a market.
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