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A suspected Colombian drug boss was shot dead Thursday in a hospital in Madrid, CNN sister station CNN+ reported, citing police sources. |
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Two girls died in a landslide Thursday triggered by a 6.1-magnitude earthquake that struck near Costa Rica's capital of San Jose, the National Emergency Commission of Costa Rica said. |
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Mexican authorities have arrested a top drug cartel suspect and two other men and seized drugs, weapons, explosives, vehicles and cash, the state-run news agency said. |
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A Canadian soldier was killed this week in Afghanistan when a roadside bomb struck the armored vehicle in which he was riding, officials said. |
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Mexican President Felipe Calderon outlined a series of economic recovery measures Wednesday, including freezing gasoline prices for the rest of the year and lowering natural gas prices by 10 percent. |
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Two leaders of a Canadian polygamist sect were arrested Wednesday and charged with polygamy in what could be a landmark case, said Wally Oppal, attorney general of British Columbia. |
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Israel said Wednesday it may expel Venezuela's top diplomat from the country in a tit-for-tat gesture after the South American nation ordered the Israeli ambassador to leave over the increasingly bloody ground war in Gaza. |
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The wife of kidnapped security expert Felix Batista broke her monthlong silence on Wednesday, pleading with his Mexican abductors to "please have mercy." |
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The Televisa TV station in Monterrey, Mexico, came under attack Tuesday night from gunmen who launched a grenade and fired a high-power rifle, federal authorities said. |
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The threat of further landslides forced Guatemalan authorities to call off search operations at a remote disaster site where 35 people were killed and another 30 remained missing, a government official said Tuesday. |
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Ten people are confirmed dead after a 6.1-magnitude earthquake hit north central Costa Rica, a government emergency official said Friday afternoon. |
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Slavery may seem like a quaint notion in a 21st century world, but that distinction is lost on up to 40,000 Brazilians who find themselves toiling for no real wages and can't leave the distant work camps where they live. |
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The number of people killed from an earthquake in Costa Rica rose to 34 on Saturday, a government official said. |
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Thirty-two people were killed and 25 others injured when a bus skidded off a rain-slicked mountain road and tumbled into a ravine in northern Peru early Saturday, a transit police spokesman told CNN. |
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President-elect Barack Obama will meet Monday afternoon with Mexican President Felipe Calderon in the first face-to-face talks of the incoming U.S. leader with a foreign head of state. |
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President-elect Barack Obama plans to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay as early as his first week in office to show a break from the Bush administration's approach to the war on terror, according to two officials close to the transition. |
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A California man sold his 14-year-old daughter to an 18-year-old man for cash, beer and meat -- then called police when the prospective bridegroom didn't live up to his end of the deal, authorities said Tuesday. |
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Two guerrillas fled their camp Tuesday deep in the forests of southern Colombia with two kidnap victims that they used in exchange for their freedom, a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense said Tuesday. |
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Bolivia broke diplomatic relations with Israel on Wednesday over the Israeli incursion into Gaza, President Evo Morales announced. |
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Spain's National Court opened an official investigation into 14 former military officers in El Salvador accused of killing six priests, their housekeeper and her daughter in November 1989. |
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Chilean inspectors stumbled upon hundreds of exotic animals from Peru destined for illegal trade while conducting what they thought was going to be a routine inspection of a fishing boat, the government said Tuesday. |
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A Navy helicopter whipped the waves as the U.S. Coast Guard closed in on the suspected drug traffickers abandoning their homemade submarine off the coast of Ecuador. |
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What to do with an aging, all-but-forgotten former military strongman whom the United States captured in a war? |
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Hearings were under way Monday for five detainees accused of crimes related to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and a Canadian charged with killing a U.S. soldier. |
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Brazilian firefighters called off their search for survivors Monday, one day after a church roof collapse in Sao Paulo killed at least eight people and injured more than 100 others. |
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A former guerrilla group that laid down its arms in 1992 has won the most seats in El Salvador's national Legislative Assembly, giving the FMLN a big boost toward winning the presidential election in March. |
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Argentina President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will meet Monday evening with Cuban leader Raul Castro during her first official visit to the island. |
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Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defended his country's decision to free an Italian fugitive condemned to life in prison for murders he denies committing in the 1970s while a member of an extremist left-wing group. |
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El Salvador will elect more than 340 local and congressional officials Sunday, two months before the nation's presidential election. But Sunday's results could go a long way toward determining who that next president will be. |
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Violence and drug-trafficking have become such a major threat to Latin America that the presidents of Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala and Panama will sit around a table Friday in Panama to discuss what they can do about it. |
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The Venezuelan National Assembly has approved a referendum on a constitutional amendment that would allow President Hugo Chavez to run for a third consecutive six-year term in 2012. |
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Police on Thursday said they found the car stolen from a Spanish businessman who was gunned down a day earlier after exercising at a park in Panama's capital. |
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Canada's public radio is asking listeners to pick 49 songs that will "best define" the country to the incoming president of its southern neighbor. |
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Hearings were under way Monday for five detainees accused of crimes related to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and a Canadian charged with killing a U.S. soldier. |
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Brazilian firefighters called off their search for survivors Monday, one day after a church roof collapse in Sao Paulo killed at least eight people and injured more than 100 others. |
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A former guerrilla group that laid down its arms in 1992 has won the most seats in El Salvador's national Legislative Assembly, giving the FMLN a big boost toward winning the presidential election in March. |
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Argentina President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will meet Monday evening with Cuban leader Raul Castro during her first official visit to the island. |
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Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defended his country's decision to free an Italian fugitive condemned to life in prison for murders he denies committing in the 1970s while a member of an extremist left-wing group. |
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El Salvador will elect more than 340 local and congressional officials Sunday, two months before the nation's presidential election. But Sunday's results could go a long way toward determining who that next president will be. |
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Violence and drug-trafficking have become such a major threat to Latin America that the presidents of Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala and Panama will sit around a table Friday in Panama to discuss what they can do about it. |
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The Venezuelan National Assembly has approved a referendum on a constitutional amendment that would allow President Hugo Chavez to run for a third consecutive six-year term in 2012. |
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Police on Thursday said they found the car stolen from a Spanish businessman who was gunned down a day earlier after exercising at a park in Panama's capital. |
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Canada's public radio is asking listeners to pick 49 songs that will "best define" the country to the incoming president of its southern neighbor. |
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Hearings were under way Monday for five detainees accused of crimes related to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and a Canadian charged with killing a U.S. soldier. |
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Brazilian firefighters called off their search for survivors Monday, one day after a church roof collapse in Sao Paulo killed at least eight people and injured more than 100 others. |
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A former guerrilla group that laid down its arms in 1992 has won the most seats in El Salvador's national Legislative Assembly, giving the FMLN a big boost toward winning the presidential election in March. |
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Argentina President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will meet Monday evening with Cuban leader Raul Castro during her first official visit to the island. |
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Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defended his country's decision to free an Italian fugitive condemned to life in prison for murders he denies committing in the 1970s while a member of an extremist left-wing group. |
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El Salvador will elect more than 340 local and congressional officials Sunday, two months before the nation's presidential election. But Sunday's results could go a long way toward determining who that next president will be. |
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Violence and drug-trafficking have become such a major threat to Latin America that the presidents of Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala and Panama will sit around a table Friday in Panama to discuss what they can do about it. |
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The Venezuelan National Assembly has approved a referendum on a constitutional amendment that would allow President Hugo Chavez to run for a third consecutive six-year term in 2012. |
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Police on Thursday said they found the car stolen from a Spanish businessman who was gunned down a day earlier after exercising at a park in Panama's capital. |
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Canada's public radio is asking listeners to pick 49 songs that will "best define" the country to the incoming president of its southern neighbor. |
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Hearings were under way Monday for five detainees accused of crimes related to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and a Canadian charged with killing a U.S. soldier. |
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Brazilian firefighters called off their search for survivors Monday, one day after a church roof collapse in Sao Paulo killed at least eight people and injured more than 100 others. |
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A former guerrilla group that laid down its arms in 1992 has won the most seats in El Salvador's national Legislative Assembly, giving the FMLN a big boost toward winning the presidential election in March. |
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Argentina President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will meet Monday evening with Cuban leader Raul Castro during her first official visit to the island. |
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Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defended his country's decision to free an Italian fugitive condemned to life in prison for murders he denies committing in the 1970s while a member of an extremist left-wing group. |
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El Salvador will elect more than 340 local and congressional officials Sunday, two months before the nation's presidential election. But Sunday's results could go a long way toward determining who that next president will be. |
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Violence and drug-trafficking have become such a major threat to Latin America that the presidents of Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala and Panama will sit around a table Friday in Panama to discuss what they can do about it. |
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The Venezuelan National Assembly has approved a referendum on a constitutional amendment that would allow President Hugo Chavez to run for a third consecutive six-year term in 2012. |
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Police on Thursday said they found the car stolen from a Spanish businessman who was gunned down a day earlier after exercising at a park in Panama's capital. |
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Canada's public radio is asking listeners to pick 49 songs that will "best define" the country to the incoming president of its southern neighbor. |
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Hearings were under way Monday for five detainees accused of crimes related to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and a Canadian charged with killing a U.S. soldier. |
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Brazilian firefighters called off their search for survivors Monday, one day after a church roof collapse in Sao Paulo killed at least eight people and injured more than 100 others. |
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A former guerrilla group that laid down its arms in 1992 has won the most seats in El Salvador's national Legislative Assembly, giving the FMLN a big boost toward winning the presidential election in March. |
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Argentina President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will meet Monday evening with Cuban leader Raul Castro during her first official visit to the island. |
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Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defended his country's decision to free an Italian fugitive condemned to life in prison for murders he denies committing in the 1970s while a member of an extremist left-wing group. |
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El Salvador will elect more than 340 local and congressional officials Sunday, two months before the nation's presidential election. But Sunday's results could go a long way toward determining who that next president will be. |
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Violence and drug-trafficking have become such a major threat to Latin America that the presidents of Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala and Panama will sit around a table Friday in Panama to discuss what they can do about it. |
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The Venezuelan National Assembly has approved a referendum on a constitutional amendment that would allow President Hugo Chavez to run for a third consecutive six-year term in 2012. |
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Police on Thursday said they found the car stolen from a Spanish businessman who was gunned down a day earlier after exercising at a park in Panama's capital. |
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Canada's public radio is asking listeners to pick 49 songs that will "best define" the country to the incoming president of its southern neighbor. |
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Hearings were under way Monday for five detainees accused of crimes related to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and a Canadian charged with killing a U.S. soldier. |
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Brazilian firefighters called off their search for survivors Monday, one day after a church roof collapse in Sao Paulo killed at least eight people and injured more than 100 others. |
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A former guerrilla group that laid down its arms in 1992 has won the most seats in El Salvador's national Legislative Assembly, giving the FMLN a big boost toward winning the presidential election in March. |
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Argentina President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will meet Monday evening with Cuban leader Raul Castro during her first official visit to the island. |
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Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defended his country's decision to free an Italian fugitive condemned to life in prison for murders he denies committing in the 1970s while a member of an extremist left-wing group. |
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El Salvador will elect more than 340 local and congressional officials Sunday, two months before the nation's presidential election. But Sunday's results could go a long way toward determining who that next president will be. |
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Violence and drug-trafficking have become such a major threat to Latin America that the presidents of Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala and Panama will sit around a table Friday in Panama to discuss what they can do about it. |
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The Venezuelan National Assembly has approved a referendum on a constitutional amendment that would allow President Hugo Chavez to run for a third consecutive six-year term in 2012. |
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Police on Thursday said they found the car stolen from a Spanish businessman who was gunned down a day earlier after exercising at a park in Panama's capital. |
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Canada's public radio is asking listeners to pick 49 songs that will "best define" the country to the incoming president of its southern neighbor. |
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Hearings were under way Monday for five detainees accused of crimes related to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and a Canadian charged with killing a U.S. soldier. |
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Brazilian firefighters called off their search for survivors Monday, one day after a church roof collapse in Sao Paulo killed at least eight people and injured more than 100 others. |
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A former guerrilla group that laid down its arms in 1992 has won the most seats in El Salvador's national Legislative Assembly, giving the FMLN a big boost toward winning the presidential election in March. |
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Argentina President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will meet Monday evening with Cuban leader Raul Castro during her first official visit to the island. |
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Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defended his country's decision to free an Italian fugitive condemned to life in prison for murders he denies committing in the 1970s while a member of an extremist left-wing group. |
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El Salvador will elect more than 340 local and congressional officials Sunday, two months before the nation's presidential election. But Sunday's results could go a long way toward determining who that next president will be. |
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Violence and drug-trafficking have become such a major threat to Latin America that the presidents of Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala and Panama will sit around a table Friday in Panama to discuss what they can do about it. |
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The Venezuelan National Assembly has approved a referendum on a constitutional amendment that would allow President Hugo Chavez to run for a third consecutive six-year term in 2012. |
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Police on Thursday said they found the car stolen from a Spanish businessman who was gunned down a day earlier after exercising at a park in Panama's capital. |
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Canada's public radio is asking listeners to pick 49 songs that will "best define" the country to the incoming president of its southern neighbor. |
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Hearings were under way Monday for five detainees accused of crimes related to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and a Canadian charged with killing a U.S. soldier. |
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Brazilian firefighters called off their search for survivors Monday, one day after a church roof collapse in Sao Paulo killed at least eight people and injured more than 100 others. |
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A former guerrilla group that laid down its arms in 1992 has won the most seats in El Salvador's national Legislative Assembly, giving the FMLN a big boost toward winning the presidential election in March. |
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Argentina President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will meet Monday evening with Cuban leader Raul Castro during her first official visit to the island. |
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Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defended his country's decision to free an Italian fugitive condemned to life in prison for murders he denies committing in the 1970s while a member of an extremist left-wing group. |
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El Salvador will elect more than 340 local and congressional officials Sunday, two months before the nation's presidential election. But Sunday's results could go a long way toward determining who that next president will be. |
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Violence and drug-trafficking have become such a major threat to Latin America that the presidents of Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala and Panama will sit around a table Friday in Panama to discuss what they can do about it. |
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The Venezuelan National Assembly has approved a referendum on a constitutional amendment that would allow President Hugo Chavez to run for a third consecutive six-year term in 2012. |
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Police on Thursday said they found the car stolen from a Spanish businessman who was gunned down a day earlier after exercising at a park in Panama's capital. |
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Canada's public radio is asking listeners to pick 49 songs that will "best define" the country to the incoming president of its southern neighbor. |
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Hearings were under way Monday for five detainees accused of crimes related to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and a Canadian charged with killing a U.S. soldier. |
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Brazilian firefighters called off their search for survivors Monday, one day after a church roof collapse in Sao Paulo killed at least eight people and injured more than 100 others. |
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A former guerrilla group that laid down its arms in 1992 has won the most seats in El Salvador's national Legislative Assembly, giving the FMLN a big boost toward winning the presidential election in March. |
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Argentina President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will meet Monday evening with Cuban leader Raul Castro during her first official visit to the island. |
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Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defended his country's decision to free an Italian fugitive condemned to life in prison for murders he denies committing in the 1970s while a member of an extremist left-wing group. |
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El Salvador will elect more than 340 local and congressional officials Sunday, two months before the nation's presidential election. But Sunday's results could go a long way toward determining who that next president will be. |
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Violence and drug-trafficking have become such a major threat to Latin America that the presidents of Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala and Panama will sit around a table Friday in Panama to discuss what they can do about it. |
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The Venezuelan National Assembly has approved a referendum on a constitutional amendment that would allow President Hugo Chavez to run for a third consecutive six-year term in 2012. |
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Police on Thursday said they found the car stolen from a Spanish businessman who was gunned down a day earlier after exercising at a park in Panama's capital. |
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Canada's public radio is asking listeners to pick 49 songs that will "best define" the country to the incoming president of its southern neighbor. |
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Hearings were under way Monday for five detainees accused of crimes related to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and a Canadian charged with killing a U.S. soldier. |
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Brazilian firefighters called off their search for survivors Monday, one day after a church roof collapse in Sao Paulo killed at least eight people and injured more than 100 others. |
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A former guerrilla group that laid down its arms in 1992 has won the most seats in El Salvador's national Legislative Assembly, giving the FMLN a big boost toward winning the presidential election in March. |
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Argentina President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will meet Monday evening with Cuban leader Raul Castro during her first official visit to the island. |
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Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defended his country's decision to free an Italian fugitive condemned to life in prison for murders he denies committing in the 1970s while a member of an extremist left-wing group. |
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El Salvador will elect more than 340 local and congressional officials Sunday, two months before the nation's presidential election. But Sunday's results could go a long way toward determining who that next president will be. |
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Violence and drug-trafficking have become such a major threat to Latin America that the presidents of Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala and Panama will sit around a table Friday in Panama to discuss what they can do about it. |
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The Venezuelan National Assembly has approved a referendum on a constitutional amendment that would allow President Hugo Chavez to run for a third consecutive six-year term in 2012. |
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Police on Thursday said they found the car stolen from a Spanish businessman who was gunned down a day earlier after exercising at a park in Panama's capital. |
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Canada's public radio is asking listeners to pick 49 songs that will "best define" the country to the incoming president of its southern neighbor. |
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Hearings were under way Monday for five detainees accused of crimes related to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and a Canadian charged with killing a U.S. soldier. |
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Brazilian firefighters called off their search for survivors Monday, one day after a church roof collapse in Sao Paulo killed at least eight people and injured more than 100 others. |
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A former guerrilla group that laid down its arms in 1992 has won the most seats in El Salvador's national Legislative Assembly, giving the FMLN a big boost toward winning the presidential election in March. |
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Argentina President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will meet Monday evening with Cuban leader Raul Castro during her first official visit to the island. |
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Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defended his country's decision to free an Italian fugitive condemned to life in prison for murders he denies committing in the 1970s while a member of an extremist left-wing group. |
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El Salvador will elect more than 340 local and congressional officials Sunday, two months before the nation's presidential election. But Sunday's results could go a long way toward determining who that next president will be. |
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Violence and drug-trafficking have become such a major threat to Latin America that the presidents of Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala and Panama will sit around a table Friday in Panama to discuss what they can do about it. |
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The Venezuelan National Assembly has approved a referendum on a constitutional amendment that would allow President Hugo Chavez to run for a third consecutive six-year term in 2012. |
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Police on Thursday said they found the car stolen from a Spanish businessman who was gunned down a day earlier after exercising at a park in Panama's capital. |
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Canada's public radio is asking listeners to pick 49 songs that will "best define" the country to the incoming president of its southern neighbor. |
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Hearings were under way Monday for five detainees accused of crimes related to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and a Canadian charged with killing a U.S. soldier. |
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Brazilian firefighters called off their search for survivors Monday, one day after a church roof collapse in Sao Paulo killed at least eight people and injured more than 100 others. |
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A former guerrilla group that laid down its arms in 1992 has won the most seats in El Salvador's national Legislative Assembly, giving the FMLN a big boost toward winning the presidential election in March. |
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Argentina President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will meet Monday evening with Cuban leader Raul Castro during her first official visit to the island. |
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Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defended his country's decision to free an Italian fugitive condemned to life in prison for murders he denies committing in the 1970s while a member of an extremist left-wing group. |
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El Salvador will elect more than 340 local and congressional officials Sunday, two months before the nation's presidential election. But Sunday's results could go a long way toward determining who that next president will be. |
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Violence and drug-trafficking have become such a major threat to Latin America that the presidents of Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala and Panama will sit around a table Friday in Panama to discuss what they can do about it. |
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The Venezuelan National Assembly has approved a referendum on a constitutional amendment that would allow President Hugo Chavez to run for a third consecutive six-year term in 2012. |
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Police on Thursday said they found the car stolen from a Spanish businessman who was gunned down a day earlier after exercising at a park in Panama's capital. |
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Canada's public radio is asking listeners to pick 49 songs that will "best define" the country to the incoming president of its southern neighbor. |
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Hearings were under way Monday for five detainees accused of crimes related to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and a Canadian charged with killing a U.S. soldier. |
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Brazilian firefighters called off their search for survivors Monday, one day after a church roof collapse in Sao Paulo killed at least eight people and injured more than 100 others. |
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A former guerrilla group that laid down its arms in 1992 has won the most seats in El Salvador's national Legislative Assembly, giving the FMLN a big boost toward winning the presidential election in March. |
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Argentina President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will meet Monday evening with Cuban leader Raul Castro during her first official visit to the island. |
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Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defended his country's decision to free an Italian fugitive condemned to life in prison for murders he denies committing in the 1970s while a member of an extremist left-wing group. |
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El Salvador will elect more than 340 local and congressional officials Sunday, two months before the nation's presidential election. But Sunday's results could go a long way toward determining who that next president will be. |
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Violence and drug-trafficking have become such a major threat to Latin America that the presidents of Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala and Panama will sit around a table Friday in Panama to discuss what they can do about it. |
