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Mexico: Bad weather likely cause of crash
Sep 22 2005 10:22PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - A helicopter crash that killed a Cabinet minister and his deputy appears to have been caused by bad weather, officials said Thursday, denying suggestions that the flight had been sabotaged.
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Arubans choosing new PM and parliament
Sep 22 2005 10:07PM (CT)
ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) - Arubans will chose their prime minister and all 21 seats in the parliament Friday in a race that has focused on immigration and frustration over stagnant salaries lagging behind inflation
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Mexicans living on Texas Gulf hurry home
Sep 22 2005 10:03PM (CT)
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico (AP) - Hundreds of Mexicans living on the Texas Gulf Coast were rushing home Thursday to avoid Hurricane Rita, while authorities in northern Mexico readied shelters and prepared for heavy rains.
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Suspected rebels kill 10 Colombia officers
Sep 22 2005 8:10PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Suspected rebels killed 10 police officers driving down a remote highway Thursday, ambushing their truck with gunfire and homemade gas cylinder bombs, a government official said.
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Hunger striking Cuba prisoner in hospital
Sep 22 2005 5:41PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - An imprisoned Cuban activist rounded up in a crackdown on dissents two years ago has been hospitalized after 14 days of a hunger strike, his wife said Thursday.
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Alberto Giraldo, Colombian reporter, dies
Sep 22 2005 5:10PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Alberto Giraldo, the journalist who spent five years in jail for his role in the Cali cocaine cartel's funding of former Colombian President Ernesto Samper's election campaign, died Thursday. He was 70.
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Mexican anti-drug official dies in crash
Sep 22 2005 6:37AM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - A cabinet minister who helped lead Mexico's anti-drug fight, his deputy and seven others died in a helicopter crash in the mountains west of Mexico's capital on Wednesday. There were no survivors.
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Charges against ex-Mexico leader dismissed
Sep 22 2005 12:37AM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - A Mexican judge has refused prosecutors' request to issue arrest warrants for former president Luis Echeverria and seven other former officials in the 1968 massacre of student protesters, local media reported Wednesday.
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