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Venezuelan lawmakers say plot foiled
Dec 8 2005 11:37PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Lawmakers allied with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Thursday that authorities had foiled a plot by government opponents and the CIA to overthrow the government. The United States rejected the allegations.
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U.S. activists trek towards Guantanamo
Dec 8 2005 10:34PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - American activists reached the halfway point in a long trek toward the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay to protest treatment of terror suspects, but it appeared unlikely the communist government would let them enter a Cuban military zone to reach the U.S. outpost.
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U.S. envoy says Cubans will bring change
Dec 8 2005 8:36PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - America's new top diplomat to Havana declared Thursday that the Cuban people _ not the United States _ will someday transform their communist nation into a lively democracy with a free exchange of ideas.
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Castro remembers victims of 1976 bombing
Dec 8 2005 7:24PM (CT)
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (AP) - Fidel Castro laid flowers Thursday at a memorial to 73 people killed in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner _ a plot allegedly masterminded by a Cuban militant being held in the United States.
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Vanuatu volcano bursts into life
Dec 8 2005 6:52PM (CT)
AMBAE ISLAND, Vanuatu (AP) - A volcano pumping a huge plume of gas, steam and ash into the atmosphere from a crater ringed with dead trees is unlikely to explode in a devastating eruption, a vulcanologist said Thursday, bringing applause from anxious islanders.
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Calderon reshapes Mexico presidential race
Dec 8 2005 6:29PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Felipe Calderon was a virtual unknown this summer, his lone claim to fame a feud with President Vicente Fox that prompted him to quit as energy secretary.
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Peacekeepers likely tied to Haiti shooting
Dec 8 2005 4:47PM (CT)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - The United Nations acknowledged Thursday that its peacekeepers likely opened fire on a car full of Haitian police officers this week, wounding two.
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Caribbean summit focuses on Cuban, U.S.
Dec 8 2005 2:44PM (CT)
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (AP) - Leaders of Caribbean nations were holding a summit Thursday to discuss health care cooperation and cultural exchanges, but a major focus was on Cuba and its thorny relationship with the United States.
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Kidnappers free Haitian political leader
Dec 8 2005 1:13AM (CT)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - A senior member of ousted President Jean Bertrand Aristide's party said he was released four days after he was kidnapped _ one of 30 people abducted during the last week in the increasingly violent country.
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