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Brazil cancels flights at 3 big airports
Dec 5 2006 11:15PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Virtually all takeoffs from three major airports in Brazil were canceled Tuesday night after an air traffic communications system broke down, making it difficult for controllers to communicate with pilots and creating air travel chaos.
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Chavez snubs U.S. overture for dialogue
Dec 5 2006 6:50PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez snubbed a U.S. overture for dialogue on Tuesday, saying he is always willing to talk but doubts Washington sincerely wants to improve relations.
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Mexican president presents budget
Dec 5 2006 4:46PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican President Felipe Calderon _ under pressure to promote the social programs his leftist rival championed _ presented an austere budget Tuesday that increases spending for social programs to help the country's poorest.
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Lawyers argue for Chinese at Guantanamo
Dec 5 2006 3:59PM (CT)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Lawyers for seven Chinese Muslims held at Guantanamo Bay have asked a federal court to order their release, arguing they were captured in the same circumstances as others who already have been freed from U.S. custody.
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Brazil court releases pilots' passports
Dec 5 2006 2:52PM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - A court said Tuesday it had released the passports of two U.S. pilots of a private jet involved in a collision with a Boeing 737 over the Amazon that killed 154 people.
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Haiti floods kill 3, wash away roads
Dec 5 2006 1:20PM (CT)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Floods triggered by nearly two weeks of heavy rain have washed away roads and bridges, wiped out crops and killed at least three people in western Haiti, the International Red Cross said Tuesday.
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Bus crash in Peru leaves 45 people dead
Dec 5 2006 1:15PM (CT)
LIMA, Peru (AP) - A bus speeding through the fog on a twisting mountain road in the Andes fell 1,320 feet into a ravine, killing 45 people, police said Tuesday.
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Pinochet said recovers from heart attack
Dec 5 2006 12:59PM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Former dictator Augusto Pinochet's condition is no longer life-threatening, but doctors Tuesday dismissed claims that his heart attack was exaggerated to allow him to avoid prosecution for abuses during his 1973-90 regime.
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Protest movement leader nabbed in Mexico
Dec 5 2006 12:38PM (CT)
OAXACA, Mexico (AP) - Police arrested the symbolic leader of a six-month protest movement that took over the southern city of Oaxaca and left at least nine dead, hours after he said at a news conference in Mexico City that he'd gone to the capital to negotiate a peaceful solution.
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Leader of Oaxaca protests arrested
Dec 5 2006 2:05AM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican police arrested the symbolic leader of a six-month-long protest movement that took over southern Oaxaca city, hours after he gave a news conference saying he had come to the capital to start talks with the government.
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