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Peru grants extension sought by smelter
May 29 2006 8:11PM (CT)
LIMA, Peru (AP) - Peru granted a U.S.-owned smelting plant a three-year extension Monday to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions at its facility in the high Andes, 90 miles east of Lima.
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Uribe looks to stop leftist insurgents
May 29 2006 7:43PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Strengthened by his landslide presidential re-election, staunch U.S. ally Alvaro Uribe declared Monday that he will fulfill his "huge responsibility" to Colombia.
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Canada: Some citizens al-Qaida trained
May 29 2006 6:31PM (CT)
TORONTO (AP) - Canada's spy agency said Monday that some Canadian citizens or residents received terror training in al-Qaida-run camps in Afghanistan, providing official reinforcement to what security analysts have warned for years.
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75 now on hunger strike at Guantanamo
May 29 2006 3:26PM (CT)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - The number of Guantanamo Bay detainees participating in a hunger strike has ballooned from three to around 75, the U.S. military said Monday, revealing growing defiance among prisoners held for up to 4 1/2 years with no end in sight.
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Bolivia removes guards at energy plants
May 29 2006 10:23AM (CT)
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - President Evo Morales says he is lifting the military guard deployed at energy installations around the country when Morales nationalized Bolivia's natural gas industry.
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Uribe pledges to alter Colombia for better
May 29 2006 4:04AM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Conservative President Alvaro Uribe became the first incumbent to win re-election in Colombia in more than a century, beating his nearest rival by more than 40 percentage points with pledges to continue fighting crime and reducing poverty.
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Chavez says Bush plotting against Bolivia
May 29 2006 2:05AM (CT)
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told Bolivian forces to be on guard against conspirators, suggesting again that President Bush is plotting against the country's left-leaning government.
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