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Cubans cross Fla. striats in converted cab
Jun 7 2005 11:15PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A vintage blue taxicab converted into a seagoing vessel and carrying several Cuban immigrants was intercepted Tuesday off Key West by the Coast Guard, a television station reported.
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Official: Haiti would welcome U.S. troops
Jun 7 2005 10:44PM (CT)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - A Haitian official said Tuesday that the violence-gripped nation would welcome the deployment of U.S. troops ahead of elections and that Haitians were losing confidence in U.N. peacekeepers.
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Violent uprising persists in Bolivia
Jun 7 2005 10:13PM (CT)
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - Violent street protests choked off Bolivia's crippled capital on Tuesday, as the collapse of President Carlos Mesa's government failed to quell demands by the poor Indian majority for more power from the white elite that has ruled the country for decades.
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Aruba lawyer: Clients held in murder probe
Jun 7 2005 10:01PM (CT)
ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) - The attorney for two former security guards arrested in the disappearance last month of an Alabama honors student said Tuesday his clients were being investigated for murder and kidnapping.
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Cuban brothers' identity switch backfires
Jun 7 2005 9:46PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - Bernardo Heredia fled communist Cuba a decade ago, and this year loaned his lookalike younger brother his U.S. residency documents to help him do the same.
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Brazil president vows to fight corruption
Jun 7 2005 7:50PM (CT)
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) - Battered by accusations his party paid monthly bribes to buy votes in Congress, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva pledged Tuesday to carry out a battle against corruption that would reduce it to a "sad memory."
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AP: Gitmo teens say Taliban stole youth
Jun 7 2005 3:12PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Some were baby-faced teenagers too young to grow facial hair. Others said they were snatched from their families and forced to work for Afghanistan's Taliban. The stories of the youngest detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, chart their journeys from childhood in the villages of Afghanistan to U.S. custody, according to military tribunal transcripts obtained by The Associated Press under a Freedom of Information lawsuit.
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Chile court strips Pinochet of immunity
Jun 7 2005 3:08PM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - A Chilean appeals court stripped Gen. Augusto Pinochet of immunity from prosecution Tuesday in a tax evasion case stemming from multimillion-dollar bank accounts the former dictator held in the United States.
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