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Consulate reopens near Mexico-U.S. border
Aug 8 2005 10:36PM (CT)
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico (AP) - The U.S. consulate in this violence-wracked border city reopened Monday, a week after the U.S. ambassador to Mexico ordered it closed, citing a wave of violence along the border.
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Thieves get about $65M from Brazil bank
Aug 8 2005 7:40PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Thieves tunneled nearly 300 feet to a Central Bank vault in northeastern Brazil and stole about $65 million, police said Monday, in what has been described as the biggest such robbery ever in Brazil.
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Bosnian Serb suspect caught in Argentina
Aug 8 2005 7:15PM (CT)
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - A former Bosnia Serb paramilitary leader, wanted by a U.N. tribunal on charges of crimes against humanity, was captured Monday in Argentina, officials said.
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Brazil dictatorship wanted atomic bomb
Aug 8 2005 5:17PM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - A former president has disclosed that the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil for two decades tried to develop an atomic bomb, but says the program was scrapped when an elected government assumed power in 1985.
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Family of missing Ala. teen raises reward
Aug 8 2005 3:27PM (CT)
ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) - The mother of an Alabama honors student missing in this Caribbean island for over two months said Monday the investigation into the teen's disappearance has been marred by ineptitude, and more than doubled the reward for help in solving the case to $250,000.
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