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Poll: Brazilian president widens lead
Oct 20 2006 10:37PM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has widened his lead over his rival a little over a week before Brazil's Oct. 29 presidential runoff, a respected polling institute said Friday.
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Chamorro: Nicaragua won't repeat past
Oct 20 2006 10:32PM (CT)
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) - Ex-President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, who led Nicaragua out of 11 years of leftist Sandinista rule, said Friday she trusts the country will not return to its troubled past when it elects a president in about two weeks.
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Developers protect Virgin Islands snake
Oct 20 2006 9:12PM (CT)
CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) - Developers have scaled back a planned luxury home project in an effort to protect the habitat of an endangered tree boa in the U.S. Virgin Islands, officials said Friday.
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Brazil activist killed in hit-and-run
Oct 20 2006 9:11PM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Police released a composite sketch Friday of the man suspected of being the driver who struck and killed an environmentalist who dedicated his life to protecting rare monkeys in Brazil's Atlantic rainforest.
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Tainted medicine kills 27 in Panama
Oct 20 2006 8:33PM (CT)
PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) - Thousands of health workers and students took to Panama's streets to collect bottles of cough syrup and lotions possibly contaminated with an industrial chemical as the death toll from the tainted medicine rose to 27 Friday.
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Man charged with impregnating stepchild
Oct 20 2006 7:21PM (CT)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - A Puerto Rican man faces sex assault and other charges after a paternity test established that he impregnated his 10-year-old stepdaughter, police said Friday.
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Mexico arrests former police commander
Oct 20 2006 7:14PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Special prosecutors have arrested a former commander of Mexico's now-disbanded secret police in connection with the 1974 disappearance of six alleged guerrilla members, officials said Friday.
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Rights group to probe Brazilian prison
Oct 20 2006 6:47PM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - A regional human rights commission will investigate whether Rio de Janeiro state police abused hundreds of prisoners by maintaining substandard conditions in an overcrowded jail, Brazilian activists said Friday.
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Colombia blames rebels for car bombing
Oct 20 2006 4:12PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - President Alvaro Uribe on Friday withdrew his offer to negotiate a humanitarian prisoner exchange with leftist rebels after blaming the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia for a car bomb that wounded 23 people.
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Brazil policeman gets 30 years in deaths
Oct 20 2006 4:10PM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - A state police officer will serve Brazil's maximum 30-year prison term following his conviction in the deaths of four young men in a shantytown, a court official said Friday.
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Cuban writer can't return, won't defect
Oct 20 2006 12:04PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - A celebrated Cuban writer whose book tour in Europe has turned into a yearlong stay outside his homeland insisted he has not defected, but said he will return to the communist-run island only on his own terms.
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Strong earthquake rattles Peruvian coast
Oct 20 2006 9:28AM (CT)
LIMA, Peru (AP) - A strong earthquake rattled Peru's southern coast on Friday, but no damage or injuries were reported. The magnitude 6.4 quake struck at 5:48 a.m. below the floor of the Pacific Ocean, 56 miles northwest of the coastal city of Pisco, according to Peru's Geophysics Institute. The U.S. Geological Survey reported the quake as magnitude 6.5.
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