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Cubans remember airliner bombing victims
Oct 6 2006 10:28PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - Ondina Perez grew teary Friday as she recalled the day 30 years ago when a Cuban airliner exploded in flight over the island of Barbados, killing her pilot brother and the other 72 people aboard. Three decades later, Perez and other family members of those killed want the man sought for masterminding the explosion, Luis Posada Carriles, to face trial.
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Leader of governing Brazil party quits
Oct 6 2006 10:19PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - The president of the governing Workers' Party said Friday he was stepping down in the wake of a corruption scandal that had battered Brazil's president during his re-election campaign.
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Suriname police probe homeless attacks
Oct 6 2006 10:04PM (CT)
PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) - The killings of four homeless men while they slept on the streets of Suriname's capital have shocked this South American country and left police wondering if a serial killer is on the loose, authorities said Friday.
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Morales fires 2 Bolivia mining officials
Oct 6 2006 9:50PM (CT)
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - President Evo Morales fired two top mining officials late Friday after a clash between rival bands of miners over access to the country's richest tin deposit left at least 16 dead and more than 60 injured.
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Salvadoran leader links suspect to plot
Oct 6 2006 9:46PM (CT)
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) - President Tony Saca charged Friday that a Cuban drug suspect deported to the United States was behind a plot to assassinate him.
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Alleged kidnapper deported to the U.S.
Oct 6 2006 9:34PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - An alleged kidnapper featured on "America's Most Wanted" turned himself in to U.S. authorities in Mexico and was deported to the United States, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico said Friday.
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Brazil plane crash probe near completion
Oct 6 2006 9:07PM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Preliminary investigations into Brazil's worst air disaster could be completed by next week and are focusing on why a smaller jet that collided with the downed plane was in a flight lane assigned to traffic going the opposite direction, authorities said Friday.
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Argentines rally for 'Dirty War' trials
Oct 6 2006 8:44PM (CT)
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - More than 12,000 people demanding the safe return of a "Dirty War" prosecution witness missing since mid-September marched peacefully through the Argentine capital Friday night.
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Survey: Silva has lead in Brazil runoff
Oct 6 2006 8:31PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was holding a lead over his challenger ahead of Brazil's Oct. 29 presidential runoff vote, a survey released Friday showed.
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Venezuela official calls Bush 'monster'
Oct 6 2006 8:12PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuela's foreign minister called President Bush a "monster" on Friday, adding to a list of insults by President Hugo Chavez who recently called the U.S. leader devil and donkey.
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Two boys, mother kidnapped in Venezuela
Oct 6 2006 7:06PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Two boys who hold Italian citizenship have been kidnapped along with their Venezuelan mother in the South American country, the Italian Embassy said Friday.
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Teacher hacked to death in Mexican city
Oct 6 2006 12:31AM (CT)
OAXACA, Mexico (AP) - A teacher was hacked to death in this historic Mexican city that has been paralyzed for months by protests and violence, police said late Thursday. A colleague claimed the man was killed for opposing a teachers' strike.
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