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British search for rapist in Caribbean
Oct 19 2006 11:18PM (CT)
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) - London police focused on the southern Caribbean for a serial rapist believed to have attacked nearly 100 elderly women and men in Britain, a forensic scientist said Thursday.
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Jet transponder not working before crash
Oct 19 2006 11:06PM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Early analysis of the flight data recorders from two planes that collided in Brazil's deadliest air disaster indicated the smaller jet's transponder was not signaling its location at the time of the accident, Brazil's defense minister said Thursday.
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Petro: Colombia paramilitaries reviving
Oct 19 2006 10:25PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - President Alvaro Uribe's two-year-old peace pact with right-wing militias is a charade that has let the illegal paramilitary groups reconstitute and maintain dominance of drug trafficking, a top opposition leader said.
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Challenger blasts Brazil prez in debate
Oct 19 2006 10:09PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Challenger Geraldo Alckmin used a televised debate Thursday to criticize President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva over corruption allegations.
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300 evacuated from Ecuador volcano
Oct 19 2006 9:08PM (CT)
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - Lava and ash erupted from an Ecuadoran volcano and forced the evacuation of about 300 villagers, a local mayor said Thursday.
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Mexico's Senate votes for governor
Oct 19 2006 9:03PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico's Senate ruled Thursday there was no reason to oust Oaxaca's embattled state governor, eliminating the last formal legal recourse for thousands of protesters who for months have demanded the resignation of Gov. Ulises Ruiz.
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U.N. to postpone voting on seat for week
Oct 19 2006 5:36PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. General Assembly will suspend voting over an open Latin American seat in the U.N. Security Council for a week to do other work and allow time to break a deadlock between the two countries bidding for the spot, Guatemala and Venezuela, officials said Thursday.
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Brazilian Indians leave mining complex
Oct 19 2006 5:34PM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Indians who occupied an Amazon mining complex and paralyzed production for two days have left the site, Companhia Vale do Rio Doce SA, the world's largest iron ore miner, said Thursday.
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Insurers put Wilma damage at $3 billion
Oct 19 2006 4:04PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Hurricane Wilma caused $3 billion in damage, the largest insured losses in Mexican history, the director of the Mexican Insurance Association said Thursday.
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Car bomb wounds 23 in Colombian capital
Oct 19 2006 3:01PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - A car bomb left by a person dressed in a military uniform exploded in the parking lot of a military university in Bogota, wounding at least 23 people, as a top general was at a conference nearby, the defense minister said.
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Rising Peruvian leftist loses popularity
Oct 19 2006 10:25AM (CT)
LIMA, Peru (AP) - Once seemingly unstoppable in his quest for Peru's presidency, retired army officer Ollanta Humala has seen his star plummet over human rights charges and dissatisfaction with his leftist politics.
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5 arrests in Panama tainted medicine case
Oct 19 2006 1:10AM (CT)
PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) - Panamanian authorities said Wednesday that 26 people had died after drinking tainted cough medicine, and five people had been detained on suspicion of selling contaminated material to a factory that produced the medication.
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