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Cuba says Raul Castro in firm control
Aug 4 2006 10:00PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - The Communist leadership assured Cubans on Friday that Raul Castro was in firm control as acting president, and the health minister said Fidel Castro was "recovering satisfactorily" from intestinal surgery.
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Chavez opponent drops out of race
Aug 4 2006 9:52PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuelan opposition leader Teodoro Petkoff dropped out of the presidential race on Friday, saying he would support a single candidate _ as yet unannounced _ to run against President Hugo Chavez in December elections.
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Mexican electoral court to meet in open
Aug 4 2006 9:50PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - After weeks of closed-door deliberations that will determine Mexico's next leader, the nation's top electoral court on Friday prepared to hold its first open session on the country's disputed presidential race.
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Ex-Argentine officer sentenced for abuse
Aug 4 2006 6:52PM (CT)
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - A former police officer was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison for human rights abuses in connection with the 1978 disappearance of a married couple during Argentina's military dictatorship.
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2 more die from poisonous mushrooms
Aug 4 2006 6:49PM (CT)
TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico (AP) - A 7-year-old boy and his father died Friday, bringing to 10 the number of people killed after eating poisonous mushrooms in Mexico's southernmost Chiapas state.
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Rebels blamed in deadly Colombia attacks
Aug 4 2006 3:35PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Leftist rebels were blamed for two attacks Friday as Colombia prepares for President Alvaro Uribe's second-term inauguration _ a car bomb that killed four officers outside a Cali police station and an attack that killed two soldiers in a western province.
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Some Cubans enjoy comforts of communism
Aug 4 2006 1:57PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - Park cleaner Froilan Mezquia sleeps in the shed where he stores his supplies and hasn't had a real meal in three days. The 62-year-old also received years of free medical treatment for throat cancer.
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