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Guards and detainees clash at Guantanamo
May 19 2006 11:59PM (CT)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Prisoners with makeshift weapons battled guards trying to save a detainee pretending to commit suicide at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in what military officials said Friday was a coordinated attack that left six prisoners injured.
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Colombia's militia peace deal in crisis
May 19 2006 11:04PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Colombia's peace process with far-right paramilitaries faced uncertainty Friday after the country's constitutional court rejected key provisions of the deal that human rights groups had criticized as too lenient.
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Pope disciplines Legionaries' founder
May 19 2006 9:56PM (CT)
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI disciplined the founder of the conservative Legionaries of Christ, a favorite of Pope John Paul II who for decades has been dogged by sexual abuse allegations _ effectively making the elderly prelate a priest in name only.
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Greenpeace activists arrested in Brazil
May 19 2006 9:07PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Police detained 16 activists from the environmental group Greenpeace on Friday after launching a protest against Brazil's largest soy exporter at an Amazon River port.
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Police brutality in Brazil breeds crime
May 19 2006 8:11PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - A police car screeched to a halt in the Novo Mundo slum. Children scattered as three officers with guns and bulletproof vests leapt out and ran into a tenement.
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Fujimori: No confidence in Peru courts
May 19 2006 7:57PM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori said Friday he refuses to appear before the courts in Peru because he lacks confidence in its justice system.
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Storms deepen misery in Latin America
May 19 2006 1:16PM (CT)
GONAIVES, Haiti (AP) - Tropical Storm Jeanne blew away Markley Maitre's concrete block house in a rush of wind and water, forcing her to dig through the mud for debris to rebuild.
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Migrants forgo smugglers to enter U.S.
May 19 2006 11:22AM (CT)
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) - Destitute and determined to sneak into the United States, Alvaro Garcia arrived at a Tijuana shelter after a 60-hour bus trip from southern Mexico to rest and inquire about the most porous spots along the border.
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Mexico condemns U.S border fence plan
May 19 2006 6:06AM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico and four Central American nations condemned the U.S plan to build hundreds of miles of triple-layered fencing on its southern border, saying it would not stop illegal immigration.
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