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Guatemalan mob burns kidnap suspects alive
Apr 19 2006 10:55PM (CT)
SUMPANGO, Guatemala (AP) - A mob burned a man and a woman to death on Wednesday after accusing them of several child abductions in this predominantly Mayan town, where residents have long claimed youngsters are snatched and the police do nothing.
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Pentagon releases extensive Gitmo list
Apr 19 2006 10:51PM (CT)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - The U.S. government released the first list of detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay prison on Wednesday _ the most extensive accounting yet of the hundreds of people held there, nearly all of them labeled enemy combatants.
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Mexican priest confesses to killing lover
Apr 19 2006 9:57PM (CT)
TOLUCA, Mexico (AP) - A Mexican priest has confessed to strangling his pregnant lover after Easter Mass and cutting her body into pieces, a state attorney general said Wednesday.
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Chavez: Oil will be destroyed if attacked
Apr 19 2006 9:08PM (CT)
ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday again raised the specter of U.S. designs to oust him and promised that his government will blow up his country's oil fields if the United States should ever attack.
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Clean-cut 19-year-old latest Aruba arrest
Apr 19 2006 8:48PM (CT)
ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) - He is a clean-cut teen who worked briefly for the beach patrol, whose father runs a security company and sister graduated from the Aruban police academy.
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Family defends suspect in Holloway case
Apr 19 2006 7:46PM (CT)
ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) - The family of a 19-year-old arrested in the case of a young Alabama woman who went missing last year while visiting Aruba said Wednesday that he had nothing to do with her disappearance.
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10 inmates killed in Venezuela prison riot
Apr 19 2006 5:24PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - A riot erupted at a western prison Wednesday, leaving 10 inmates dead and one wounded a day after authorities seized weapons and illegal drugs from gang members in the jail, an official said.
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Cuba to purchase more food from Nebraska
Apr 19 2006 3:47PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - Cuba agreed Wednesday to buy another $30 million in food from Nebraska, strengthening trade relations with a U.S. farm state already selling corn, wheat, soybeans and other products to the communist island.
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Norwegians to re-create Kon-Tiki journey
Apr 19 2006 11:44AM (CT)
LIMA, Peru (AP) - Nearly 60 years after Thor Heyerdahl's Pacific Ocean crossing aboard the balsa raft Kon-Tiki, a Norwegian team is in Peru putting final touches on a new vessel to repeat the journey.
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Few protections for migrants to Mexico
Apr 19 2006 8:29AM (CT)
TULTITLAN, Mexico (AP) - Considered felons by the government, these migrants fear detention, rape and robbery. Police and soldiers hunt them down at railroads, bus stations and fleabag hotels. Sometimes they are deported; more often officers simply take their money.
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Few protections for migrants to Mexico
Apr 19 2006 7:28AM (CT)
TULTITLAN, Mexico (AP) - Considered felons by the government, these migrants fear detention, rape and robbery. Police and soldiers hunt them down at railroads, bus stations and fleabag hotels. Sometimes they are deported; more often officers simply take their money.
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