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Mexico launches anti-smoking campaign
Dec 13 2006 10:13PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - The government teamed up with doctors, academics and a U.S.-based drug company Wednesday to announce a campaign to reduce the number of smokers in Mexico by more than 10 percent in three years.
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Bus crash kills 21 in Peruvian jungle
Dec 13 2006 9:38PM (CT)
LIMA, Peru (AP) - A passenger bus slammed into an oncoming truck on mountain curve and plunged into a river in Peru's Amazonas state Wednesday, killing at least 21 people and injuring 30, authorities said.
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Chile army discharges Pinochet grandson
Dec 13 2006 8:57PM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - The grandson of Gen. Augusto Pinochet was discharged from the army Wednesday after causing an uproar with his eulogy denouncing judges who had tried the late Chilean dictator.
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Brazil cites U.S. pilots in crash report
Dec 13 2006 8:10PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Two U.S. pilots of an executive jet could have prevented a midair collision that killed 154 people aboard another plane if they had noticed their aircraft's transponder was turned off, according to a preliminary report by Brazilian police released Wednesday.
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Pinochet death renews calls for CIA files
Dec 13 2006 5:23AM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - The blast rocked Washington's Embassy Row on Sept. 21, 1976, ripping through the car of one of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's most outspoken critics.
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Jamaica's female prime minister struggling
Dec 13 2006 4:16AM (CT)
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) - When Portia Simpson Miller became their first female prime minister Jamaicans celebrated in the streets, hailing "Sista P" as a warmhearted champion of the poor.
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Report: Caribbean coral reef being damaged
Dec 13 2006 1:00AM (CT)
BELIZE CITY (AP) - Fertilizer and sediment runoff from sugarcane, banana and pineapple plantations are threatening tourism by damaging a coral reef stretching along the Caribbean coasts of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Honduras, according to a report released on Tuesday.
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