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Obrador supporters seek recount in Mexico
Jul 12 2006 10:54PM (CT)
MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) - Tens of thousands of supporters of leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador headed to Mexico City on Wednesday, leaving mountain towns and sprawling industrial cities to demand a ballot-by-ballot recount.
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Hurricane, Tropical Storm near Mexico
Jul 12 2006 10:13PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - The first hurricane of the season has formed in the eastern Pacific but forecasters said Wednesday that it posed no threat to land.
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Colombia's ambassador to U.S. resigns
Jul 12 2006 9:43PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Colombia's ambassador to the United States has resigned in anger over the president's selection of a disgraced former leader as ambassador to France _ prompting a high-level feud on Wednesday.
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Militarization concerns Venezuela bishops
Jul 12 2006 9:29PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Roman Catholic leaders Wednesday criticized what they called the militarization of Venezuelan society and the persecution of government opponents.
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Rains, flooding in Chile leave 11 dead
Jul 12 2006 7:17PM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rain in central Chile left at least 11 people dead and forced 30,000 to flee their inundated homes Wednesday, the government said.
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Colombia seeks to curb U.N. monitors
Jul 12 2006 3:31PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - President Alvaro Uribe's administration is campaigning behind the scenes to silence the U.N. human rights monitors who have verified thousands of abuses in Colombia in recent years, foreign diplomats and rights groups say.
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Colombia seeks to rein in rights watchdog
Jul 12 2006 10:03AM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - President Alvaro Uribe's government is lobbying to restrict a U.N. agency that has been the most trusted monitor of human rights violations in Colombia, according to foreign diplomats and rights activists.
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