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Haiti ex-top cop to plead in drug case
Apr 20 2005 11:23PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Haiti's former national police commander agreed Wednesday to plead guilty to two of eight counts in a federal indictment accusing him of smuggling drugs and laundering money.
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Popular Mexico City mayor faces charges
Apr 20 2005 10:58PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Prosecutors charged Mexico City's popular leftist mayor with abuse of authority Wednesday, moving closer to a criminal trial that could knock him out of the 2006 presidential race.
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Ecuador congress votes to remove president
Apr 20 2005 10:48PM (CT)
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - Lawmakers in Ecuador voted Wednesday to remove embattled President Lucio Gutierrez from office after a week of escalating street protests demanding his ouster, and they swore in Vice President Alfredo Palacio to replace him.
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Ecuador's vice president assumes power
Apr 20 2005 9:06PM (CT)
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - Alfredo Palacio, Ecuador's vice president who assumed the presidency Wednesday, is a heart surgeon fond of medical metaphors that he frequently use to describe ousted leader Lucio Gutierrez as a disease afflicting the nation.
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Colombian forces try to break rebel lines
Apr 20 2005 7:28PM (CT)
TORIBIO, Colombia (AP) - Government troops backed by armored vehicles made their way along a mountain road Wednesday to this bomb-scarred Andean town to break a weeklong siege by well-armed Colombian rebels _ who vowed not to withdraw.
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Canadians gearing up for new election
Apr 20 2005 4:29PM (CT)
TORONTO (AP) - Canadians may be dreading another election so soon after last year's vote but with the government effectively shut down by a corruption scandal in the prime minister's party, they will likely go to the polls again in June.
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Poverty in Latin America faces pope
Apr 20 2005 2:56PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico's Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe, the most important Catholic shrine in the Americas, now serves as a place of homage to Pope John Paul II _ and provides a hint of what his successor will face in ministering to half the world's Catholics.
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