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Rebel ambush kills 16 in Colombian forces
Apr 21 2006 9:53PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Leftist rebels ambushed a military convoy in remote northeastern Colombia, killing 16 soldiers and secret police officers in the deadliest attack on security forces this year, the army said Friday.
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New rig brings Brazil oil self-sufficiency
Apr 21 2006 7:25PM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, dressed in an orange jump suit, drenched his hand in oil as he flipped the switch Friday on a new oil rig that will usher in overall independence from foreign oil.
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Easter Island statue heads home
Apr 21 2006 6:37PM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - A 7-foot-tall head carved from compressed volcanic ash embarked on its final trip home to Easter Island on Friday, ending a 77-year odyssey that included stops in a Chilean dictator's home and a backyard garden in Argentina.
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Study recommends Mexico block crossings
Apr 21 2006 6:22PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - An immigration study partly funded by the Mexican government recommended Friday that Mexico bar its citizens from the most dangerous illegal border crossings.
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U.S. raises Venezuela's safety ranking
Apr 21 2006 4:49PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - U.S. aviation authorities upgraded Venezuela's safety ranking on Friday, averting a ban that would have blocked most U.S. airlines from flying to the country.
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Haitians vote for new parliament in runoff
Apr 21 2006 4:18PM (CT)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Haitians traveled by pickup truck, mule and on foot Friday to vote in a legislative election billed as the final step in the often-delayed process to bring back democracy to the poorest nation in the Americas.
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Aruban authorities study sea floor photos
Apr 21 2006 3:43PM (CT)
ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) - Aruban authorities studied photos of the sea floor Friday as part of an investigation into the disappearance of missing American teenager Natalee Holloway, prosecutors said.
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Analysis: Dangerous moment for Nepal king
Apr 21 2006 3:27PM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - The king's words were about democracy, but in this Himalayan land where a royal dynasty once revered as godlike is facing the whiff of open rebellion, the future appeared dangerously uncertain.
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Former maid Bolivia's new justice minister
Apr 21 2006 2:02PM (CT)
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - At age 13, Casimira Rodriguez left her hardscrabble rural home, hoping to escape poverty by taking a job as a housemaid in the city. What she got instead was a nightmare of virtual slavery, and a first-hand view of the injustice many poor Bolivians experience.
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Wave of violent crime sweeps Venezuela
Apr 21 2006 1:21PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Victims reach the emergency room soaked in blood and dazed _ wheeled in on stretchers, carried in people's arms, some still walking with the last of their strength. An elderly man shot in a robbery, a young man sprayed with gunfire, a woman who took a stray bullet in the head while on her way to church.
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Some Panamanians in way of canal expansion
Apr 21 2006 9:26AM (CT)
LAGARTERITA, Panama (AP) - A plan to expand locks in the Panama Canal so they can accommodate larger ships has Emerita Rodriguez worried her home may soon be underwater. Rodriguez lives with her husband and three children on a small island on Lake Gatun, a 160-square-mile man-made reservoir that supplies water for the canal.
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Venezuelan hospitals cope with violence
Apr 21 2006 2:50AM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Victims reach the emergency room soaked in blood and dazed _ wheeled in on stretchers, carried in people's arms, some still walking with the last of their strength. An elderly man shot in a robbery, a young man sprayed with gunfire, a woman who took a stray bullet in the head while on her way to church.
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