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Opponents of Bolivian president strike
Sep 8 2006 11:00PM (CT)
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - Opponents of President Evo Morales stayed home from work and blocked key streets in four cities Friday to protest the governing party's handling of an assembly that is rewriting the Bolivian constitution.
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Florence to veer from U.S. to Bermuda
Sep 8 2006 10:32PM (CT)
HAMILTON, Bermuda (AP) - Islanders crowded stores Friday to buy generators, bottled water and other emergency supplies as Tropical Storm Florence chugged through the open Atlantic on a path toward Bermuda.
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Mexico arrests major cocaine suspect
Sep 8 2006 7:19PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican authorities have arrested a reputed major figure in one of Colombia's largest and most feared drug cartels responsible for nearly half of the cocaine smuggled into the United States, U.S. officials said Friday.
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Former dictator Pinochet loses immunity
Sep 8 2006 6:46PM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Chile's Supreme Court on Friday stripped former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet of immunity from prosecution for alleged abuses at one of his regime's most notorious detention centers _ where the current president and her mother were tortured _ a court official said.
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Search ends after fatal landslide
Sep 8 2006 4:03PM (CT)
NUEVA NECAXA, Mexico (AP) - Soldiers dug in the debris from a landslide that buried a highway in east-central Mexico and killed at least four people, but ended the search Friday without finding more victims.
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Obrador says he will create government
Sep 8 2006 3:33PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has given up efforts to have himself declared winner of Mexico's presidential race, but he still plans a parallel government to cater to the poor and keep alive his fight against the president-elect, a party spokesman said Friday.
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