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Brazil flights suspended amid protest
Mar 30 2007 11:46PM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - A protest by air traffic controllers forced the suspension of flights from Brazilian airports Friday, stranding thousands of travelers across the country, according to union officials and government media.
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DR to revoke activist's citizenship
Mar 30 2007 11:40PM (CT)
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) - Dominican officials are seeking to revoke the citizenship of an internationally recognized advocate for their country's Haitian minority.
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DR to revoke activist's citizenship
Mar 30 2007 11:40PM (CT)
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) - Dominican officials are seeking to revoke the citizenship of an internationally recognized advocate for their country's Haitian minority.
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Australian Gitmo detainee gets 9 months
Mar 30 2007 11:10PM (CT)
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - An American military tribunal sentenced an Australian to nine months in prison Friday after he pleaded guilty to supporting terrorism _ in the first conviction at a U.S. war-crimes trial since World War II.
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Silva, Bush to talk trade, ethanol
Mar 30 2007 10:50PM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva hopes to advance a biofuels alliance and stalled world trade talks when he meets President Bush in Washington on Saturday _ the leaders' second meeting in less than a month.
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Ecuador volcano erupts
Mar 30 2007 10:31PM (CT)
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - A volcano in Ecuador's Andes erupted Friday, shooting plume of ash nearly two miles into the sky but causing no injuries or damage, authorities said.
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Chile leader warns against more unrest
Mar 30 2007 10:26PM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - The president of Chile warned Friday that she would not tolerate a repeat of violent protests by students who clashed with police, blocked traffic and looted stores.
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Protests disrupting Ecuador oil flow end
Mar 30 2007 9:34PM (CT)
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - Protests that led the Brazilian state oil company to halt production in the Ecuadorean jungle have ended, Ecuador's Energy Ministry said late Friday.
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Mexico opens windows on buried treasures
Mar 30 2007 7:47PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Archaeologists in Mexico City announced plans Friday to hold tours of inaccessible buried ruins via glass-covered shafts looking down on the sites.
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Salvadoran rights activist dies at 68
Mar 30 2007 6:32PM (CT)
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) - Renowned human rights activist Maria Julia Hernandez, who aided victims of El Salvador's civil war, died Friday of a heart attack, friends and colleagues said. She was 68.
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8 people killed in northern Mexico
Mar 30 2007 5:14PM (CT)
MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) - Gunmen killed two police officers and six other people in less than 48 hours, the latest victims in a wave of drug-related violence in northern Mexico, police said Friday.
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Dengue surging in Mexico, Latin America
Mar 30 2007 3:14PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - The deadly hemorrhagic form of dengue fever is increasing dramatically in Mexico, and experts predict a surge throughout Latin America fueled by climate change, migration and faltering mosquito eradication efforts.
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Argentina presses Falklands claim
Mar 30 2007 3:00PM (CT)
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Twenty-five years after hostilities ceased, Argentina is opening a new front in the Falklands War.
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Argentina presses Falklands claim
Mar 30 2007 3:00PM (CT)
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Twenty-five years after hostilities ceased, Argentina is opening a new front in the Falklands War.
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Argentina presses Falklands claim
Mar 30 2007 3:00PM (CT)
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Twenty-five years after hostilities ceased, Argentina is opening a new front in the Falklands War.
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Argentina presses Falklands claim
Mar 30 2007 3:00PM (CT)
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Twenty-five years after hostilities ceased, Argentina is opening a new front in the Falklands War.
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Suspect at Guantanamo claims torture
Mar 30 2007 10:16AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A suspected Saudi terrorist told a military hearing that he was tortured into confessing that he was involved in the bombing of the USS Cole, according to a Pentagon transcript released Friday.
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Brazil offers Internet access to Indians
Mar 30 2007 2:37AM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Brazil's government said it will provide free Internet access to native Indian tribes in the Amazon in an effort to help protect the world's biggest rain forest.
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Media chases details of Hicks' jail life
Mar 30 2007 12:34AM (CT)
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - The surprise guilty plea by terror suspect David Hicks has left the military scrambling to fly in a panel of officers to determine a sentence _ and a pack of journalists scratching for scraps of information amid a virtual news blackout.
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