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Mexicans say Guard won't slow migrants
May 15 2006 10:55PM (CT)
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) - President Bush's decision to send the National Guard to the Mexican border drew an angry response from migrants who said troops would not deter them, while Mexico's government said Monday it would respect the U.S. action as "a sovereign decision."
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Castro denies Forbes report on his wealth
May 15 2006 10:12PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - Cuban President Fidel Castro denounced a Forbes magazine report naming him one of the world's wealthiest rulers, putting in a special television appearance on Monday to rebut the story he called "rubbish."
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Pentagon releases Gitmo detainees' names
May 15 2006 10:06PM (CT)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - The Pentagon gave The Associated Press on Monday the first list of everyone who has been held at Guantanamo Bay, more than four years after it opened the detention center in Cuba. But none of the most notorious terrorist suspects were included, raising questions about where America's most dangerous prisoners are being held.
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Violence in Brazil kills more than 80
May 15 2006 10:03PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Masked men attacked bars, banks and police stations with machine guns. Gangs set buses on fire. And inmates at dozens of prisons took guards hostage in an unprecedented four-day wave of violence around South America's largest city that left more than 80 dead by Monday.
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Bolivia moves closer to nationalization
May 15 2006 7:03PM (CT)
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - The Bolivian government pressed ahead with its moves to re-nationalize its energy industry on Monday, ordering foreign financial companies to surrender control over shares they administer for a public pension fund.
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Chavez brushes aside U.S. arms sales ban
May 15 2006 1:43PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez brushed aside America's suspension of arms sales to his country Monday, saying "this doesn't matter to us at all."
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70 die in 4 days of violence in Brazil
May 15 2006 9:42AM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Prison riots and attacks on police by a criminal gang extended into Monday, raising the reported death toll to 70 in four days of violence that has started to choke normal life in South America's largest city.
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Preval sworn in as Haiti's new president
May 15 2006 3:16AM (CT)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Rene Preval, taking power as Haiti's president for the second time in a decade, urged his divided population to unite for peace, warning "if we don't talk, then we will only fight."
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