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Mexican president-elect decries violence
Sep 26 2006 11:04PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico's president-elect says murder and mayhem fueled by drug smuggling have overwhelmed the governments of the nation's capital and key states across the country.
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Venezuela official protesting treatment
Sep 26 2006 10:41PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuela's foreign minister on Tuesday lodged a protest with the U.S. ambassador over his temporary detainment during the weekend at a New York airport.
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Mexican police search for accused priest
Sep 26 2006 10:39PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Police in the Mexican state of Puebla began searching Tuesday for a Roman Catholic priest accused of molesting children in Los Angeles, officials said.
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Chilean teachers march for better pay
Sep 26 2006 10:36PM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Thousands of public school teachers held a generally peaceful march in the capital on Tuesday to demand higher pay, amid heavy police security following violent student protests earlier this year.
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Poll: Brazil's president headed to win
Sep 26 2006 10:18PM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is headed toward a first-round victory Sunday in Brazil's election, a new poll predicts.
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Guantanamo makes adjustments for Ramadan
Sep 26 2006 8:13PM (CT)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Muslim detainees at Guantanamo Bay entered Ramadan with traditional sweets, dates and honey _ but without a military chaplain to lead them in prayer during Islam's holy month.
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Morning-after pill causes furor in Chile
Sep 26 2006 7:28PM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Chile began supplying morning-after pills to girls as young as 14 this week under a program that has created an uproar in the politically leftist but socially conservative country, which still outlaws all abortions and only legalized divorce two years ago.
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Ex-V.I. official pleads guilty to charge
Sep 26 2006 3:42PM (CT)
CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) - A former chief of environmental protection in the U.S. Virgin Islands pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges of conspiracy to defraud the islands' government of more than $1 million, an official said.
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Brazil launches property rights program
Sep 26 2006 2:48AM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Rio will spend $1 million to map two sprawling shantytowns as the first step toward granting land titles to residents who otherwise have no property rights in the sprawling slums, officials said.
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