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U.S. ambassador: Haiti gangs are a problem
Jun 1 2005 11:57PM (CT)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - U.N. peacekeepers must do more to combat the armed gangs now destabilizing Haiti before elections to fill the power vacuum left after former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's ouster, the U.S. ambassador to Haiti said.
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Tourist from downed Costa Rica plane found
Jun 1 2005 10:51PM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) - Officials Wednesday rescued a U.S. tourist who jumped safely into the Pacific Ocean before a small skydiving plane he was aboard went down in Costa Rica, the Red Cross said.
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Migrants to go home after rescue at sea
Jun 1 2005 8:34PM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) - First the boat broke down. Then the smugglers taking the 88 South Americans to the United States fled on another boat, taking the navigational aids with them. Then the old, wooden boat started to sink, and the food and water ran dry.
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Bird flu ruled out for chickens in Brazil
Jun 1 2005 8:03PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Authorities have ruled out bird flu disease as the cause of a mysterious respiratory illness that prompted the slaughter of 17,000 chickens in a central western Brazilian state, an official with the Agriculture Ministry said Wednesday.
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French diplomat shot dead in Haiti capital
Jun 1 2005 2:31PM (CT)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Gunmen killed a French diplomat who was driving in Haiti's capital and stole his car, the latest example of rising violence in the hemisphere's poorest country, the French Embassy said Wednesday.
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Message in a bottle saves sea migrants
Jun 1 2005 2:20PM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) - Eighty-eight South Americans lost at sea while trying to reach the United States were rescued after tying a message in a bottle to a passing boat's fishing line, and authorities were returning them to Ecuador, Costa Rican officials said Wednesday.
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