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Judge: Former Haiti PM should stand trial
Sep 20 2005 9:56PM (CT)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - A Haitian judge has ruled there is enough evidence to try a jailed former prime minister in the massacre of more than 40 political opponents during the rebellion that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
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Colombian army discovers huge cocaine lab
Sep 20 2005 9:31PM (CT)
MARIPI, Colombia (AP) - Colombian troops raided a sprawling clandestine drug laboratory run by a paramilitary group that was capable of producing 10 tons of cocaine a month, officials said Tuesday.
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12 inmates dead at Guatemala youth prison
Sep 20 2005 9:27PM (CT)
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - Police stepped up security around a youth prison outside Guatemala's capital Tuesday, a day after a gang members armed with guns and grenades burst inside and slaughtered 12 inmates _ leaving behind a gruesome, bloody scene.
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Military: Gitmo hunger strike loses steam
Sep 20 2005 8:44PM (CT)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - The number of detainees on a hunger strike at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay has fallen by almost two-thirds since last week, a military official said Tuesday.
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Fire devours 247,000 acres in Amazon
Sep 20 2005 8:18PM (CT)
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - A fire that has devoured more than 247,000 acres of Amazon forest burned out of control Tuesday near the Brazilian border, officials said.
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Venezuela suspects seek asylum in Colombia
Sep 20 2005 6:57PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Former top Venezuelan military officials accused of trying to oust Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in a 2002 coup are seeking refugee status in Colombia.
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Missing Argentine men sought in Antarctica
Sep 20 2005 5:44PM (CT)
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Four army commandos on skis dropped by helicopter Tuesday onto an Antarctic glacier to search for two Argentine men who plunged into a deep ice crevasse in a weekend snowmobiling accident.
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Mexican rebel leader on cover of magazine
Sep 20 2005 4:53PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Subcomandante Marcos, who first caught the world's attention as the charismatic leader of an Indian rebel movement, has appeared on the cover of a popular celebrity magazine amid rumors of a love affair with a Mexican journalist.
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Chavez raises his profile at U.N. summit
Sep 20 2005 2:10AM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - In a matter of days, Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez denounced the U.S. government on the floor of the U.N., called President Bush a threat to the world, then waved an American flag and told New Yorkers he hopes for peace.
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