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Mexico starts partial recount of vote
Aug 9 2006 10:50PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Electoral officials fanned out across the country Wednesday to begin a partial recount in Mexico's tight presidential election, while leftists alleging vote fraud blocked bank headquarters in the capital and vowed to take their disruptive protests nationwide.
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Colombian gunmen kill five Indians
Aug 9 2006 9:58PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Masked gunmen killed five Indians in Colombia on Wednesday even as U.N. officials marked World Indigenous Day with a call for illegal combat groups to keep Indians out of the country's armed conflict.
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Gunmen attack newspaper in Mexico
Aug 9 2006 9:36PM (CT)
OAXACA, Mexico (AP) - Gunmen attacked a newspaper critical of the Oaxaca state government Wednesday, injuring at least two people in the latest incident in a wave of violence that has driven many tourists from this quaint Mexican city.
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Gunmen kill 5 at Guyana newspaper
Aug 9 2006 9:24PM (CT)
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) - Gunmen with automatic weapons stormed Guyana's largest newspaper, killing five people and wounding four in an attack that police said may be linked to the slaying of the South American country's agriculture minister in April.
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Brazil arrests 46 in logging crackdown
Aug 9 2006 9:23PM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Police arrested 46 people, including 16 agents of the federal environmental protection agency, for allegedly operating illegal logging operations in the Amazon rainforest and in southern Brazil, the environment ministry said Wednesday.
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Rosales opposition choice to face Chavez
Aug 9 2006 8:05PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Political opponents of Hugo Chavez called off their primary election and joined forces Wednesday behind a popular state governor as their top choice to challenge the Venezuelan president in December.
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Cuba complains about satellite dishes
Aug 9 2006 6:23PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - TV satellite dishes are a "germ-filled stew" which receive subversive propaganda, Communist officials told Cubans Wednesday as Washington increased transmissions of its TV channel to the island while Fidel Castro recovers from surgery.
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FBI cleared in deadly Puerto Rico raid
Aug 9 2006 6:08PM (CT)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - FBI agents were justified in shooting to death a Puerto Rican militant in a September 2005 raid, federal investigators said Wednesday in a report that was dismissed by pro-independence activists as a cover-up.
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Brazil violence affects president's race
Aug 9 2006 3:19PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Gang attacks on police stations, government offices and banks are taking a toll on the campaign of a former Sao Paulo governor who is the leading challenger to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the October election.
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Cuba enjoys warm relations in Caribbean
Aug 9 2006 11:28AM (CT)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Looking for foreign aid after his election, Haitian President Rene Preval stopped in Havana. When Trinidad's prime minister needed heart surgery, he twice turned to Cuban doctors. And when the U.N. held its annual vote to denounce the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba, the Caribbean Community trade bloc gave its unanimous support.
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Colombian rebel served on utility board
Aug 9 2006 9:41AM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - When corporate board members are paraded before reporters in handcuffs, it's usually for embezzlement, cooking the books or some other financial malfeasance. But it's almost never for being a rebel fighting to overthrow a capitalist economy and impose a Marxist-style government.
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Cuba enjoys ties with Caribbean neighbor
Aug 9 2006 3:12AM (CT)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Looking for foreign aid after his election, Haitian President Rene Preval stopped in Havana. When Trinidad's prime minister needed heart surgery, he twice turned to Cuban doctors. And when the U.N. held its annual vote to denounce the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba, the Caribbean Community trade bloc gave its unanimous support.
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Airplane door detaches in air over Brazil
Aug 9 2006 1:03AM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - The door of a TAM airlines plane fell off minutes after takeoff Tuesday and plunged into a supermarket's concrete awning, the airline said.
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