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Guyana probes U.S. missionary killings
Apr 1 2005 10:09PM (CT)
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) - Police said Friday that two American missionaries had been found slain at a farm they rented in southwestern Guyana near the border with Brazil.
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Police suspected of 30 Rio killings
Apr 1 2005 9:09PM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Police incensed by investigations of brutality and corruption by "bad" cops may have carried out a massacre in two impoverished suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, killing 30 people, state officials said Friday.
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U.N. troops patrol edge of Haitian slum
Apr 1 2005 8:51PM (CT)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - U.N. troops in armored vehicles guarded the outskirts of a lawless seaside slum in Haiti's capital Friday, ahead of a promised crackdown on gang fighting that some people fear could disrupt fall elections.
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Mexico City mayor could face criminal case
Apr 1 2005 8:46PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - A congressional panel recommended Friday that Mexico City's leftist mayor face criminal charges for allegedly disobeying a court order in a land-use case, a decision that could keep him out of next year's presidential election.
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Cuba's Cardinal makes rare TV appearance
Apr 1 2005 8:21PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - In a rare appearance on state TV, Cuba's top Catholic leader informed the communist country of Pope John Paul II's health problems Friday, paying tribute to a leader he called a "moral reference for humanity."
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Report: Colombia coca cultivation remains
Apr 1 2005 7:18PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - President Alvaro Uribe vowed on Friday to press ahead with U.S.-financed fumigation of cocaine-producing crops, even as a White House report found an aerial spraying offensive in Colombia last year failed to cut the acreage devoted to coca cultivation.
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Ex-Ecuador president will return home
Apr 1 2005 6:56PM (CT)
PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) - A day after his homeland cleared him of criminal charges, Ecuador's former president said Friday that he is leaving exile in Panama to go home.
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Brazil police suspected of killing 27
Apr 1 2005 1:14PM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Police incensed by investigations of brutality and corruption by "bad" cops may have carried out a massacre in two impoverished suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, killing 27 people, state officials said Friday.
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