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Colombian volcano erupts in ash shower
Apr 15 2008 9:54AM CT
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Colombia's Nevado del Huila volcano erupted in a shower of hot ash, prompting thousands of people to leave their homes on Tuesday.
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Mexico opposition barricades Congress
Apr 14 2008 11:40PM CT
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Leftist lawmakers erected makeshift barricades Monday around the podium in Mexico's lower house of Congress, where they have been camped out for more than five days to protest the president's oil reform proposal.
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6.1 earthquake shakes Guatemala
Apr 14 2008 11:35PM CT
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 has hit in southwestern Guatemala. Authorities say there are no immediate reports of injuries or major damage.
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Mexican cartel recruiting hitmen
Apr 14 2008 9:45PM CT
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Hitmen tied to Mexico's Gulf cartel appear to be boldly seeking recruits by posting help-wanted signs in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, including a giant banner hung across a thoroughfare, a federal anti-drug enforcement official said Monday.
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Brazil oil field could be huge find
Apr 14 2008 8:36PM CT
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - A deep-water exploration area could contain as much as 33 billion barrels of oil, an amount that would nearly triple Brazil's reserves and make the offshore bloc the world's third-largest known oil reserve, a top energy official said Monday.
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US issues new Mexico travel alert
Apr 14 2008 7:43PM CT
MEXICO CITY (AP) - The State Department on Monday issued a new travel alert warning of rising violence in northern Mexico, but stopped short of suggesting that Americans avoid traveling in the border region.
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Cubans line up for cell phone service
Apr 14 2008 7:29PM CT
HAVANA (AP) - Lines stretched for blocks outside phone centers Monday as the government allowed ordinary Cubans to sign up for cellular phone service for the first time.
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JFK plot suspect committed in Trinidad
Apr 14 2008 6:34PM CT
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - A Muslim cleric suspected in an alleged plot to blow up New York's John F. Kennedy Airport has been hospitalized in Trinidad after suffering a mental breakdown, his lawyer said Monday.
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Armed group attacks Brazil prison
Apr 14 2008 2:13PM CT
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Armed men firing from pickup trucks and flying in a helicopter attacked a maximum-security prison holding some of Brazil's highest-profile inmates but were repelled by guards, authorities said Monday. No inmates escaped.
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