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Salvador buries children slain in U.S.
Apr 12 2007 11:31PM (CT)
SENSUNTEPEQUE, El Salvador (AP) - Weeping relatives Thursday laid to rest the tiny coffins of four children killed last month in the United States, along with their father who hanged himself in the same Maryland house.
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Chavez: Troops to escort oil takeovers
Apr 12 2007 10:19PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez said Thursday that soldiers will accompany government officials when they take over oil projects in the Orinoco River basin next month.
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Thousands march against Colombia bombing
Apr 12 2007 9:27PM (CT)
CALI, Colombia (AP) - Tens of thousands of people marched through the streets of Cali on Thursday to protest the bombing of the city's police barracks, blamed on Colombia's largest leftist rebel group.
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Mexico decriminalizes libel, defamation
Apr 12 2007 8:16PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican President Felipe Calderon signed a law Thursday eliminating prison sentences for libel or defamation, drawing praise from media watchdog groups.
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Venezuela stages raid in Posada case
Apr 12 2007 7:52PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Intelligence agents raided the home of a close friend of anti-communist militant Luis Posada Carriles, who's jailed in the U.S. but wanted in Venezuela for a 1976 airliner bombing, the friend's wife said Thursday.
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NYC ex-top cop cancels Caribbean jobs
Apr 12 2007 7:24PM (CT)
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) - Former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik has withdrawn from contracts to advise two Caribbean governments on security because of unresolved legal troubles in the United States, Guyana's president said.
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Brazil breaks up hit squad, 18 arrested
Apr 12 2007 7:05PM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Brazilian police Thursday broke up a gang accused of killing hundreds of people over several years, arresting 18 suspects and searching for 10 others, officials said.
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Chavez to military: socialism or leave
Apr 12 2007 6:43PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - On the fifth anniversary of a coup that briefly toppled him, President Hugo Chavez said Thursday that soldiers who disagree with his government's socialist leanings should leave the military.
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Cuba group calls for rights commission
Apr 12 2007 6:15PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - A new coalition of moderate Cuban opposition groups called Thursday for the creation of a human rights commission in the National Assembly, cheered by an agreement Havana struck with Spain to open a dialogue on human rights and other issues.
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Argentine icebreaker fire survivors home
Apr 12 2007 5:33PM (CT)
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - The first group of the 296 survivors of a fire aboard an Argentine navy icebreaker returned Thursday to an emotional homecoming, with relatives cheering and hugging them after their ordeal.
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Mexican traffickers wage publicity war
Apr 12 2007 1:44PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Drug traffickers are waging a highly effective publicity campaign in Mexico that began with a chilling show of brutality in Acapulco: two police officers' heads, streaming with blood, were stuck on metal spikes outside a downtown building with a fluorescent cardboard sign. "So that you learn to respect," it read in thick black letters.
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UN rules Haiti slum streets for now
Apr 12 2007 12:41PM (CT)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - As their two white armored cars push deep inside Haiti's largest slum, the Brazilian U.N. peacekeepers peer over their rifles for enemy gunmen amid spray-painted slogans saying "Down with the U.N."
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UN rules Haiti slum streets for now
Apr 12 2007 12:41PM (CT)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - As their two white armored cars push deep inside Haiti's largest slum, the Brazilian U.N. peacekeepers peer over their rifles for enemy gunmen amid spray-painted slogans saying "Down with the U.N."
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UN rules Haiti slum streets for now
Apr 12 2007 12:41PM (CT)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - As their two white armored cars push deep inside Haiti's largest slum, the Brazilian U.N. peacekeepers peer over their rifles for enemy gunmen amid spray-painted slogans saying "Down with the U.N."
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UN rules Haiti slum streets for now
Apr 12 2007 12:41PM (CT)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - As their two white armored cars push deep inside Haiti's largest slum, the Brazilian U.N. peacekeepers peer over their rifles for enemy gunmen amid spray-painted slogans saying "Down with the U.N."
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UN rules Haiti slum streets for now
Apr 12 2007 12:41PM (CT)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - As their two white armored cars push deep inside Haiti's largest slum, the Brazilian U.N. peacekeepers peer over their rifles for enemy gunmen amid spray-painted slogans saying "Down with the U.N."
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