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Venezuela withdraws ambassador from Peru
May 4 2006 8:39PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he was withdrawing his ambassador from Peru as a matter of principle after Peru called home its ambassador.
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Top U.N. renovation official resigns
May 4 2006 7:44PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The official in charge of the U.N. headquarters renovation announced his resignation Thursday, saying he was frustrated by bureaucratic and political wrangling that have resulted in years of delay and massive cost overruns.
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Uribe's microchip comments draw fire
May 4 2006 7:30PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Comments attributed to Colombia's president that microchip implants could be used to track Colombians working temporarily in the U.S. drew attention _ and criticism _ Thursday.
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Mexico police control rebellious town
May 4 2006 4:50PM (CT)
SAN SALVADOR ATENCO, Mexico (AP) - Hundreds of law enforcement officials fired tear gas and crashed through human barricades to take control of a rebellious town outside Mexico City just before dawn Thursday, hours after protesters released six badly beaten police hostages.
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Trapped Aussie miners waiting to go home
May 4 2006 2:40PM (CT)
BEACONSFIELD, Australia (AP) - They ate yogurt for breakfast Thursday and requested chicken for dinner. They slept five hours in the cold, the most yet. To keep busy, they clean each other's scratches _ all filmed round the clock.
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Lopez Obrador courts Mexico poor for vote
May 4 2006 2:21PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is a shopkeeper's son and a leftist who promises "the poor come first," but seeks to distance himself from the growing tide of leftist leaders in Latin America.
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Calderon hits stride in Mexico election
May 4 2006 1:22PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - He wasn't expected to win his party's primary, let alone surge ahead in the latest poll for the presidency. But soft-spoken, conservative Felipe Calderon has managed to overtake his charismatic left-wing opponent, and suddenly the campaign is looking like a roller coaster.
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Group: Child labor declining worldwide
May 4 2006 1:08PM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Taina Moraes cut sisal to make rope, a tough job for a 7-year-old. But U.N.-backed programs helped her family plant crops and buy goats _ and in doing so got Taina out of the factory and into school.
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Puerto Rico Senate to impose sales tax
May 4 2006 12:19PM (CT)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Puerto Rico moved a step closer to resolving a partial government shutdown as the island's Senate voted Thursday to impose a sales tax of 5.9 percent and a new levy on large corporations.
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Crisis feared over Bolivia gas takeover
May 4 2006 11:01AM (CT)
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - South American leaders scrambled to avert a regional crisis over Bolivia's nationalization of its natural gas sector as Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez flew with Bolivian President Evo Morales to a hastily arranged summit in Argentina on Thursday.
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Mexican president backs off drug bill
May 4 2006 3:46AM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican President Vicente Fox backed off signing a drug decriminalization bill that the United States warned could result in "drug tourism" and increased availability of narcotics in American border communities.
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Venezuela recalls its ambassador to Peru
May 4 2006 1:12AM (CT)
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he will remove his ambassador to Peru in response to that country's decision to recall its ambassador to Venezuela after accusing Chavez of interfering in its presidential election.
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Mexican protesters, police clash; 1 dead
May 4 2006 12:21AM (CT)
SAN SALVADOR ATENCO, Mexico (AP) - One person was killed as machete-wielding protesters near Mexico's capital clashed with police Wednesday, blocking highways, throwing molotov cocktails and briefly seizing six officers.
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