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Gunfire kills 1 in pro-Aristide Haiti slum
Apr 28 2005 9:21PM (CT)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Gunfire erupted as Haitian police and U.N. peacekeepers moved into a slum stronghold of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Thursday, and at least one civilian was killed, residents said.
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U.S. warns Nicaragua aid may be in danger
Apr 28 2005 9:11PM (CT)
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) - The U.S. government has warned that aid and investment in Nicaragua could be threatened by a proposed property law that is part of a political struggle between this nation's president and Congress.
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Rice says democracies must fight tyranny
Apr 28 2005 8:11PM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday that it is the historic duty of democrats "to tell the world that tyranny is a crime of man, not a fact of nature."
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Cuba, Venezuela woo nations on trade pact
Apr 28 2005 6:58PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - The leftist presidents of Cuba and Venezuela flaunted their independence from Washington on Thursday, strengthening their economic ties amid uncertain hopes of wooing other Latin nations into an alternative trade pact not led by the United States.
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Mexican gov't: Charges won't stop mayor
Apr 28 2005 6:34PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico's government said Thursday it would ensure criminal charges won't keep the capital's popular mayor out of next year's presidential race, helping to defuse a political battle that cost President Vicente Fox an attorney general and raised concerns he was using his office to go after rivals.
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Peru military plane crashes, killing 8
Apr 28 2005 6:05PM (CT)
LIMA, Peru (AP) - A twin-engine army plane slammed nose-first into Peru's sourthern desert coast Thursday, killing all 13 people aboard, military officials said.
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Zebra's foal sired by donkey confuses some
Apr 28 2005 3:41PM (CT)
ST. THOMAS, Barbados (AP) - It's male. But what is it? A zonkey? A deebra? That's the debate in Barbados since a zebra gave birth to a foal sired by a donkey.
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Mexico president replaces attorney general
Apr 28 2005 2:24AM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - President Vicente Fox accepted the resignation of Attorney General Rafael Macedo de la Concha on Wednesday in what was widely seen as an attempt to defuse the legal conflict with leftist Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
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