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Nicaragua Indians seek probe of killings
Aug 18 2005 9:40PM (CT)
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) - Miskito Indian leaders on Thursday asked government and human rights investigators to probe allegations that at least 150 of their people were killed under Nicaragua's Sandinistas during the 1980s.
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3 hurt in another Guatemalan prison riot
Aug 18 2005 9:31PM (CT)
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - Three jailed street gang members were injured Thursday, two of them by gunfire, during a prison riot that came three days after a series of gang-related uprisings in Guatemala prisons left 35 prisoners dead.
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Priest teaching class in Colombia killed
Aug 18 2005 5:23PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Gunmen dragged a Catholic priest out of a classroom in rural Colombia Thursday and shot him to death, bringing to three the number of clergy killed in South American nation this week, officials said.
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Martinique town mourns plane crash victims
Aug 18 2005 4:51PM (CT)
SAINT ESPRIT, Martinique (AP) - The woman in dark glasses cradled a photo album Thursday as neighbors on the porch embraced her _ offering support for her loss of family members in a plane crash in Venezuela.
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Survivors tell of horror on sunken boat
Aug 18 2005 3:34PM (CT)
MANTA, Ecuador (AP) - Last week, 113 men, women and children boarded a tiny fishing boat with dreams of a new life in the United States. On Thursday, only nine were believed alive after clinging for days to debris in the Pacific Ocean, watching their companions let go _ one by one _ and slip below the water.
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Rumsfeld promotes stability in Peru
Aug 18 2005 12:51PM (CT)
LIMA, Peru (AP) - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, seeking to promote stability in Latin America, met with Alejandro Toledo on Thursday just two days after the Peruvian president swore in a fresh Cabinet.
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French experts join Venezuela crash probe
Aug 18 2005 10:21AM (CT)
MACHIQUES, Venezuela (AP) - French specialists joined an investigation into the crash of an airliner that killed 160 people, while Colombia grounded the airline that offered the charter flight to vacationers from the French Caribbean island of Martinique.
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104 missing after boat sinks in Pacific
Aug 18 2005 3:30AM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - A small boat overloaded with 113 illegal immigrants capsized and sank in rough waters off Colombia's Pacific coast, officials said Wednesday. Only nine survivors were found, their faces scorched with sunburn after two days spent clinging to a wooden box, buoys and a gasoline container.
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