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Bolivia's polished VP steps from shadows
Oct 4 2006 11:04PM (CT)
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - While President Evo Morales has caught the world's attention waving a coca leaf at the United Nations and rushing to the bedside of an ailing Fidel Castro, the tougher assignments for his administration fall to his vice president, a gray-haired academic whose world view has changed little from his days as a Marxist guerrilla.
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Brazil court convicts 14 jail workers
Oct 4 2006 9:59PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Fourteen workers at a juvenile detention center were convicted and sentenced to up to 87 years in prison for beating inmates with iron bars and wood to find out who organized an escape attempt, court officials said Wednesday.
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'Hostile' media can't catch Morales
Oct 4 2006 9:56PM (CT)
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - President Evo Morales led a squad of journalists in circles Wednesday, leaving them wheezing as they chased the South American leader through the thin air of Bolivia's mountain capital.
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Pilots may face charges in Brazil crash
Oct 4 2006 9:37PM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Prosecutors could charge two American pilots of an executive jet with manslaughter following the high-altitude collision with a Brazilian jetliner that apparently led to a crash that killed all 155 people aboard, federal police said Wednesday.
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Nations to form land-mine removal center
Oct 4 2006 8:28PM (CT)
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) - Defense ministers from across the Americas agreed Wednesday to create an international land-mine removal center and many called for joint military missions for disaster relief and peacekeeping worldwide.
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Group to recognize Mexico leader-elect
Oct 4 2006 8:25PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - A spokeswoman for leftist legislators from Mexico City said Wednesday they would recognize conservative Felipe Calderon as president-elect, despite orders to shun him as part of protests over the July 2 election their party claims was fraudulent.
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Rumsfeld soldiers on despite criticism
Oct 4 2006 2:28PM (CT)
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) - U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld skirted around a sign warning of eruption danger. He climbed the crumbling, steep steps to the top of the Masaya volcano, carefully protecting his left arm, in a sling since surgery a month ago.
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