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Missing man sparks protests in Argentina
Oct 18 2006 10:58PM (CT)
BUENOS AIRES,Argentina (AP) - Thousands of people marched through a downtown plaza to demand the safe return of a witness who disappeared a month ago after testifying in a human rights trial dating from Argentina's "Dirty War."
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Chile police disperse student protesters
Oct 18 2006 9:16PM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Police used water cannons to disperse 2,000 high school students who took to the streets Wednesday demanding that President Michelle Bachelet speed up promised reforms to Chile's dictatorship-era education law.
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Pinochet tells judge he doesn't remember
Oct 18 2006 9:13PM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Former dictator Augusto Pinochet told a judge Wednesday that he does not remember what his security forces did at a secret detention center where thousands were tortured and hundreds were killed. He claimed he is not responsible for their actions.
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5 Honduran soldiers killed in accident
Oct 18 2006 9:06PM (CT)
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) - A military truck plunged off a cliff in eastern Honduras, killing five soldiers and injuring 12, military officials said Wednesday.
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2 severed heads found in bag in Mexico
Oct 18 2006 8:16PM (CT)
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) - Police on Wednesday discovered two human heads in a backpack in the Pacific state of Guerrero, the latest decapitation victims in a continuing wave of violence in Mexico.
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Caribbean leaders nix Haiti for bloc
Oct 18 2006 8:15PM (CT)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - A high-level Caribbean delegation promised to support Haiti as it returns to democratic rule but said Wednesday the impoverished nation was not ready to join a regional trade bloc.
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Latin American divisions slow U.N. vote
Oct 18 2006 7:07PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Latin American countries could not break a deadlock Wednesday over competing Venezuelan and Guatemalan bids for a U.N. Security Council seat, a failure that highlighted the regional divisions that will make compromise difficult.
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Colombia flower industry faces shocks
Oct 18 2006 6:33PM (CT)
FACATATIVA, Colombia (AP) - When workers at Colombia's largest flower grower organized themselves into a union a few years ago, they won protections against overly long hours, potentially dangerous exposure to pesticides and other abuses.
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U.S. Army colonel to investigate Gitmo
Oct 18 2006 5:37PM (CT)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - A U.S. Army colonel arrived at Guantanamo Bay Wednesday to investigate allegations that guards at the prison abused detainees, a military spokesman said.
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Brazilian Indians storm mining complex
Oct 18 2006 4:22PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Indians wielding war clubs and bows and arrows stormed an Amazon mining complex, shutting it down in an apparent demand for more compensation from the world's largest iron ore miner, the company said Wednesday.
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Nicaragua weighs digging rival canal
Oct 18 2006 1:17PM (CT)
SAN JORGE, Nicaragua (AP) - Dusting off a dream that dates back five centuries, Nicaragua wants to build an $18 billion alternative to the increasingly overloaded Panama Canal.
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Venezuela continues bid for U.N. seat
Oct 18 2006 1:05PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez said Venezuela will not abandon its bid for a U.N. Security Council seat, accusing the United States of using coercive measures to gain support for Guatemala in deadlocked voting at U.N. headquarters.
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Brazilian election dividing nation
Oct 18 2006 2:51AM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Brazilians are being divided along class lines by a runoff election pitting the nation's first working-class president against a patrician anesthesiologist who governed its wealthiest state.
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Kidnappers free U.S. missionary in Haiti
Oct 18 2006 12:17AM (CT)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - A U.S. missionary was kidnapped as he left his church in northern Haiti and later freed unharmed, his family said early Wednesday.
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Brazil: U.S. pilots followed flight plan
Oct 18 2006 12:08AM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Two American pilots followed their flight plan for at least part of the way before their plane collided with a passenger jet, the apparent cause of a deadly crash, the defense minister said Tuesday.
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