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Mexican president unifies police command
Dec 15 2006 11:56PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Friday named a single commander for two federal police agencies and appointed a former peace negotiator with the Zapatista rebels as head of Indian affairs.
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Chilean leader proposes soc. sec. reform
Dec 15 2006 11:54PM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - President Michelle Bachelet on Friday proposed a shake-up of Chile's widely admired but incomplete private social security system, urging a minimum government pension for 1 million elderly Chileans left out of the current program.
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Ecuador recalls ambassador from Columbia
Dec 15 2006 11:41PM (CT)
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - Ecuador recalled its ambassador to Colombia on Friday, protesting Bogota's decision to resume aerial coca fumigation along the shared border.
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Venezuelan leader says Castro not dying
Dec 15 2006 10:51PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez said Friday that Fidel Castro is not dying of cancer, saying he had spoken with the ailing Cuban leader by phone and he is eating cautiously and well enough to joke.
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Eastern Bolivians protest for autonomy
Dec 15 2006 9:12PM (CT)
SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia (AP) - Hundreds of thousands of Bolivians in this eastern lowland city protested Friday to demand more autonomy from the government of President Evo Morales and reject his control over an assembly rewriting the constitution.
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Kidnappers release children in Haiti
Dec 15 2006 7:19PM (CT)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Kidnappers freed seven children who were seized on their way to school in a volatile suburb of Haiti's capital, a U.N. official said Friday.
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Hamas, Fatah clash in deepening violence
Dec 15 2006 6:49PM (CT)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - The ruling Hamas accused a key ally of President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday of trying to assassinate the prime minister, inflaming tensions between rival Palestinian factions to their highest point in a decade as fighting spread to the West Bank.
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U.S. delegation seeks ties with Cuba
Dec 15 2006 3:51PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - A delegation of American lawmakers sought improved diplomatic and economic ties with Cuba on Friday, anticipating leadership changes in Havana and on Capitol Hill.
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Debate over Bolivia constitution rages
Dec 15 2006 1:56PM (CT)
SUCRE, Bolivia (AP) - The battle to rewrite Bolivia's constitution has come down to a math problem, and the question is anything but academic. Hanging in the balance is not only the direction the nation takes, but perhaps whether it remains a whole country at all.
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Brazil authorities arrest 75 Rio police
Dec 15 2006 11:14AM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Seventy-five Rio de Janeiro state police officers _ most from one of the city's most violent neighborhoods _ were arrested Friday as they arrived at work as part of a probe into drug trafficking.
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