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Tropical Storm Lane lashes Mexican coast
Sep 14 2006 10:23PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Tropical Storm Lane lashed Mexico's Pacific coast with winds and rain, flooding streets in Acapulco before setting on a course to hit the hurricane-battered tip of the Baja California Peninsula.
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Mexican president to move annual salute
Sep 14 2006 9:10PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - President Vicente Fox backed away from another showdown with leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Thursday, announcing that he wouldn't hold his annual Independence Day celebration in the capital's main Zocalo square to avoid protesters.
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U.S. sends 2 Gitmo detainees to Kuwait
Sep 14 2006 7:02PM (CT)
KUWAIT CITY (AP) - Two Kuwaitis released from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay returned on Friday to their homeland, where their lawyer said they would face trials on terrorism-related charges.
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Chavez vows aid for Iran against attack
Sep 14 2006 5:08PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez pledged Thursday that Venezuela will support Iran if it is invaded as a result of the Middle Eastern nation's high-stakes nuclear standoff with the United Nations Security Council.
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Chavez says ailing Castro on the mend
Sep 14 2006 4:32PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - Fidel Castro was "walking, singing" and "almost well enough to play baseball," Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declared after meeting with the ailing leader Thursday in Cuba during a trip to Cuba for the Nonaligned Movement summit.
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Tropical Storm Lane heads toward Baja
Sep 14 2006 12:58PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Tropical Storm Lane lashed Mexico's Pacific Coast with winds and rain Thursday, flooding streets in Acapulco before setting on a course to hit the hurricane-battered tip of the Baja California peninsula.
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China seizes opportunity at Cuba summit
Sep 14 2006 12:45PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - China hopes to expand its growing economic and political clout at the Nonaligned Movement summit, influence that analysts say will come at the expense of the United States, which passed up a similar invitation to attend as an observer.
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Poland's 900 troops don't ease NATO need
Sep 14 2006 5:16AM (CT)
WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Poland's defense minister said in comments broadcast Thursday that his nation will send at least 900 troops to eastern Afghanistan next year. NATO said the offer did not ease the immediate need for 2,500 additional soldiers in the violence-wracked south.
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