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Cuba frees journalist after 22 months
May 10 2007 8:23PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - Cuba has released an journalist who served 22-months in prison for participating in an anti-government rally, a local activist and a foreign media watchdog group said Thursday.
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Pope: Youth must avoid 'snares of evil'
May 10 2007 8:17PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI urged tens of thousands of young Catholics packing a soccer stadium Thursday to resist the temptations of wealth, power and other "snares of evil," and told them to promote life from "its beginning to natural end."
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Haiti migrants angry by alleged ramming
May 10 2007 7:01PM (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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U.S. probes 1997 Cuba hotel bombings
May 10 2007 6:58PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - The plastic explosives were smuggled in bottles of White Rain and Prell shampoo, and in the soles of a pair of black leather boots. Fixed to Casio digital clocks and 9-volt batteries with black adhesive tape, they became powerful bombs. Some of them never detonated, and are now on public display in Havana as part of what Cuba calls a wealth of evidence against Fidel Castro's archenemy, Luis Posada Carriles, in a string of 1997 bombings targeting Havana hotels.
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U.S. probes 1997 Cuba hotel bombings
May 10 2007 6:58PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - The plastic explosives were smuggled in bottles of White Rain and Prell shampoo, and in the soles of a pair of black leather boots. Fixed to Casio digital clocks and 9-volt batteries with black adhesive tape, they became powerful bombs. Some of them never detonated, and are now on public display in Havana as part of what Cuba calls a wealth of evidence against Fidel Castro's archenemy, Luis Posada Carriles, in a string of 1997 bombings targeting Havana hotels.
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U.S. probes 1997 Cuba hotel bombings
May 10 2007 6:58PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - The plastic explosives were smuggled in bottles of White Rain and Prell shampoo, and in the soles of a pair of black leather boots. Fixed to Casio digital clocks and 9-volt batteries with black adhesive tape, they became powerful bombs. Some of them never detonated, and are now on public display in Havana as part of what Cuba calls a wealth of evidence against Fidel Castro's archenemy, Luis Posada Carriles, in a string of 1997 bombings targeting Havana hotels.
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U.S. charges suspected bin Laden driver
May 10 2007 6:53PM (CT)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - The United States filed charges of conspiracy and providing support for terrorism Thursday against a Guantanamo detainee accused of working as a driver and bodyguard for Osama bin Laden.
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Roadside bomb kills 10 Colombian troops
May 10 2007 1:15PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - A roadside bomb planted by leftist rebels killed 10 soldiers as they patrolled in southwestern Colombia on Thursday, the deadliest attack on security forces this year, authorities said. A similar attack killed nine police officers a day earlier.
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Gunmen in Mexico kill naval bodyguard
May 10 2007 1:14PM (CT)
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) - Gunmen opened fire on a naval commander in the Pacific resort city of Ixtapa and killed his bodyguard amid increasing attacks on the Mexican military by suspected drug traffickers.
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Coca-Cola vs Coca Sek in Colombia
May 10 2007 2:19AM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - President Alvaro Uribe is taking the war on drugs to the supermarket, prohibiting the sale of products made from the coca plant.
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Coca-Cola vs Coca Sek in Colombia
May 10 2007 2:19AM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - President Alvaro Uribe is taking the war on drugs to the supermarket, prohibiting the sale of products made from the coca plant.
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Pope news conference causes stir
May 10 2007 1:37AM (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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