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Pentagon: Red Cross met Gitmo detainees
Oct 12 2006 11:58PM (CT)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - The Red Cross met at ` with 14 newly arrived "high-value detainees" including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, spokesmen for the Red Cross and the Pentagon said Thursday.
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Colombian Indians protest oil drilling
Oct 12 2006 9:29PM (CT)
TIBU, Colombia (AP) - Hundreds of Bari Indians, most clad in loincloths and carrying bows and arrows, came down from the hills in their first march ever Thursday to demand that the state-owned oil company stop drilling on sacred land abutting their reservation.
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Peron DNA taken to settle paternity test
Oct 12 2006 6:29PM (CT)
SAN VICENTE, Argentina (AP) - A court-ordered DNA sample to be taken from the corpse of Juan Peron on Friday is only the latest indignity endured by the South American strongman and his adored wife Evita in their remarkably strange afterlife. The test, ordered to resolve a paternity claim that Peronists have long considered an insult, clears the last obstacle to his reburial.
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Mexico governor may face Senate removal
Oct 12 2006 3:37PM (CT)
OAXACA, Mexico (AP) - Mexican senators considering whether to remove the Oaxaca governor in the face of protests accusing him of vote-rigging and using armed gangs against his opponents arrived in the region Thursday to determine firsthand whether the government had ceased to function.
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Hotel tycoon, 3 others die in crash
Oct 12 2006 4:39AM (CT)
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) - Resort tycoon Howard "Butch" Kerzner was killed along with three others Wednesday when a helicopter they were traveling in crashed into a building on the Dominican Republic's north coast, an aviation official said.
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