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Pope steadfast in abortion opposition
May 9 2007 10:01PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI began his first papal trip to Latin America stressing church opposition to abortion Wednesday, suggesting that Catholic politicians in Mexico had excommunicated themselves by legalizing abortion in that nation's capital.
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Pope steadfast in abortion opposition
May 9 2007 10:01PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI began his first papal trip to Latin America stressing church opposition to abortion Wednesday, suggesting that Catholic politicians in Mexico had excommunicated themselves by legalizing abortion in that nation's capital.
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Ecuador's president meets U.S. officials
May 9 2007 9:08PM (CT)
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - President Rafael Correa urged Washington to extend a package of trade benefits tied to counter-drug cooperation during talks Wednesday with the U.S. State Department's No. 2 official.
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Pope news conference causes stir
May 9 2007 7:29PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - It took two years for Pope Benedict XVI to give his first full-fledged news conference. And when he finally held one on Wednesday, he caused a stir with his comments on abortion.
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Migrants `revolted' by alleged ramming
May 9 2007 4:20PM (CT)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Survivors of the worst disaster to hit Haitian migrants in years were "angry and revolted" as they accused a Turks and Caicos police vessel of ramming their crowded boat twice before it capsized, killing dozens in shark-infested waters, a senior official said Wednesday.
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Assailants gun down Mexico police chief
May 9 2007 1:52PM (CT)
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) - A state capital's police chief was gunned down early Wednesday in southern Mexico amid continuing drug violence across the nation, authorities said.
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Roadside bomb kills 8 police in Colombia
May 9 2007 1:23PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Nine police officers were killed in the deadliest rebel attack this year when a roadside bomb planted by leftist rebels destroyed their passing truck on Wednesday, a police spokesman said.
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Pope to canonize first Brazilian saint
May 9 2007 2:27AM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - The Franciscan monk who will become Brazil's first native-born saint is credited with 5,000 miracle cures, but doctors are skeptical of his works and even a former Brazilian archbishiop laments the healings as fakery.
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Pope to canonize first Brazilian saint
May 9 2007 2:27AM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - The Franciscan monk who will become Brazil's first native-born saint is credited with 5,000 miracle cures, but doctors are skeptical of his works and even a former Brazilian archbishiop laments the healings as fakery.
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Pope to canonize first Brazilian saint
May 9 2007 2:27AM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - The Franciscan monk who will become Brazil's first native-born saint is credited with 5,000 miracle cures, but doctors are skeptical of his works and even a former Brazilian archbishiop laments the healings as fakery.
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Pope to canonize first Brazilian saint
May 9 2007 2:27AM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - The Franciscan monk who will become Brazil's first native-born saint is credited with 5,000 miracle cures, but doctors are skeptical of his works and even a former Brazilian archbishiop laments the healings as fakery.
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