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Brazil leader slips in polls before vote
Sep 30 2006 10:31PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Brazil's first working-class president slipped in the polls on the eve of elections Sunday, indicating he may not win a convincing first-round victory but will instead be forced to campaign for another month amid spiraling corruption allegations against his party.
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No sign of survivors from Brazil plane
Sep 30 2006 9:21PM (CT)
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) - Military helicopters lowered a rescue team by rope Saturday into the remote Amazon jungle site where an airliner slammed into the ground, but authorities held out little hope of finding survivors among the 155 people on board.
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Chavez: Assassination attempt foiled
Sep 30 2006 9:09PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez, who has repeatedly spoken of various plots on his life, said Saturday a sniper with a long-range gun and a motorcycle to escape on had planned to shoot him as he exited a helicopter on a recent trip to western Venezuela.
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Quake shakes southern Andes; no injuries
Sep 30 2006 8:20PM (CT)
LIMA, Peru (AP) - A moderate earthquake rattled parts of Peru's southern Andes Saturday, but there were immediate no reports of injures or damage.
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Brazil senator unhurt in copter crash
Sep 30 2006 4:58PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - A helicopter carrying Brazil's Senate president and a gubernatorial candidate crashed just before landing Saturday, but nobody aboard was injured, a spokesman said.
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Former Mexican security chief cleared
Sep 30 2006 12:31PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - A Mexican judge has dismissed charges against a former domestic security chief accused in the disappearance of six reputed guerrillas at the height of the government's "dirty war" against insurgents.
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