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Ecuador president calls state of emergency
Apr 15 2005 11:17PM (CT)
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - Facing growing street protests demanding his ouster, President Lucio Gutierrez declared a state of emergency Friday night in the capital and dissolved the Supreme Court in an effort to resolve an escalating political crisis.
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Legal Mexican migrant workers protest
Apr 15 2005 11:09PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - More than a dozen legal Mexican and Central American migrant workers recruited by U.S. companies filed a complaint Wednesday alleging they were abused and denied rights guaranteed by the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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Peru poachers charged with seven murders
Apr 15 2005 8:51PM (CT)
LIMA, Peru (AP) - Three poachers have been charged with killing seven people during a five-year crime spree in which they allegedly slaughtered 2,500 vicuna, a protected Andean animal prized for its wool, authorities said Friday.
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Gunbattle in Haitian slum leaves five dead
Apr 15 2005 7:06PM (CT)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Haitian police backed by U.N. peacekeepers encircled a seaside slum controlled by heavily armed gangs on Friday, killing at least five gunmen in a firefight as the U.N. Security Council discussed efforts to pacify the nation ahead of fall elections.
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Brazilan town roots for cardinal as pope
Apr 15 2005 5:03PM (CT)
SALVADOR DO SUL, Brazil (AP) - The 7,000 residents of this small rural town nestled in the rolling green hills of southern Brazil aren't bound by a vow of silence _ and their opinion about who should be the next pope is clear.
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Chilean cardinal is dark horse candidate
Apr 15 2005 4:14PM (CT)
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Only days before 115 cardinals sequester themselves in the Sistine Chapel, a new name is emerging as a dark horse contender, joining those of better-known cardinals in the endless speculation about who will be the next pope.
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New pope faces loss of S. America faithful
Apr 15 2005 3:15PM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Eyes closed, hands in the air, worshippers inside the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God listen in rapture as a preacher tells them to ask for fulfillment of their innermost wishes _ a new car, a bigger house, health, a better job, the return of a departed lover.
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Journalists face attacks in north Mexico
Apr 15 2005 1:03AM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mostly because of its violent drug cartels, northern Mexico has become one of the most dangerous places in the hemisphere to be a journalist, media groups say. Attacks in the past week alone have left one editor dead, one reporter missing and another barely alive after being shot nine times.
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Castro demands justice in militant case
Apr 15 2005 12:43AM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - President Fidel Castro urged the United States to refrain from granting political asylum to Luis Posada Carriles, saying the Cuban militant should instead be sent to an international tribunal or Venezuela, where he is wanted for a 1976 Cuban airliner bombing.
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