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Caribbean volcano ash grounds flights
May 21 2006 9:08PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - A huge cloud of ash billowing from an island volcano forced the suspension of some international flights over the Caribbean on Sunday, airline and airport officials said.
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2 accused in Mexico 'dirty war' are freed
May 21 2006 8:33PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Two former top Mexican police officials accused of kidnapping a leftist rebel during Mexico's 'dirty war' were released early Sunday from prison.
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Brazilians protest spate of gang attacks
May 21 2006 4:46PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Brazilians outraged by a surge of gang violence in the nation's largest city staged demonstrations across the country Sunday, and many blamed rampant corruption for the bloodshed that killed 172 people.
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Fujimori looks to influence Peru election
May 21 2006 3:55PM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Former Peruvian leader Alberto Fujimori, an exile both honored and reviled back home, is free from jail and trying to sway events in the homeland he fled six years ago to avoid corruption charges.
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Mexico works to bar non-natives from jobs
May 21 2006 3:25PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - If Arnold Schwarzenegger had migrated to Mexico instead of the United States, he couldn't be a governor. If Argentina native Sergio Villanueva, firefighter hero of the Sept. 11 attacks, had moved to Tecate instead of New York, he wouldn't have been allowed on the force.
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Bolivia's new president vows land reform
May 21 2006 11:45AM (CT)
ASUBI, Bolivia (AP) - Victor Valverde has farmed other people's land since he was 8. Now 49, he dreams of having just enough of his own to feed his family.
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