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8 years, 1 month ago
(AP) Activists alleging that decades of neglect and authorities' repeated failure to make good on cleanup promises have effectively killed one of Rio de Janeiro's most iconic waterways staged Saturday a symbolic burial of the Guanabara Bay, the sewage-filled waters where ...
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8 years, 1 month ago
(AP) The Cuban government has loosened travel restrictions on some of the island's best-known dissidents, granting them one-time permission to travel abroad ahead of President Barack Obama's trip to the island, activists said Wednesday. Obama has said his March 21-22 trip ...
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8 years, 2 months ago
(AP) QUITO, Ecuador — President Rafael Correa says he has fired Ecuador's military high command for refusing to pay back to the state $41 million from an overvalued land deal. Correa announced via Twitter the sacking of the heads of the ...
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8 years, 2 months ago
(AP) Rio de Janeiro's Olympic venues will be inspected daily during the games in a bid to prevent the spread of a mosquito-borne virus linked to a rare birth defect and also a condition that can cause paralysis, local organizers said ...
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8 years, 3 months ago
(AP) Honduras' government says it has received a request from the United States for the extradition of former vice president and businessman Jaime Rosenthal, who is accused of money laundering. Foreign Minister Arturo Corrales says the request should be sent to ...
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8 years, 3 months ago
(AP) Authorities in Costa Rica have begun deportation proceedings for 56 Cuban migrants who entered that Central American nation after it stopped issuing special transit visas for Cubans who are trying to get to the United States. Costa Rican Immigration Director ...
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8 years, 3 months ago
(AP) Jamaican officials say the severed head of a murder suspect who escaped from jail has been found along railroad tracks in a city west of the capital. Police say residents made the discovery Saturday morning near where 26-year-old Duran Colman ...
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8 years, 4 months ago
(AP) Cuban President Raul Castro urged the U.S. government Friday to halt radio and television broadcasts aimed at the island and other programs that Cuba considers harmful while reiterating that he is interested in deepening the thaw in relations with the ...
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8 years, 4 months ago
(AP) New limits are being imposed on media access to the detention center at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the commander of the military's Southern Command said Thursday, outlining rules that will limit what journalists can see and how ...
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8 years, 4 months ago
(AP) Bolivian officials say they have arrested two women on human-trafficking charges: one for selling her baby for $250, the other for buying it after placing a "want ad" on Facebook. The top child-protection official in the eastern city of Santa ...
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8 years, 5 months ago
(AP) A secretive Roman Catholic society with chapters across South America and in the U.S. has revealed under pressure that a Vatican investigator is looking into allegations that its founder sexually molested young recruits. The scandal at the Peru-based Sodalitium Christianae ...
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8 years, 5 months ago
(AP) Haitian investigators are looking into new allegations of child sex abuse against a U.S. man who founded an orphanage for boys in Haiti's capital decades ago. Police with an arrest warrant searched unsuccessfully Friday for Michael Geilenfeld at a modest ...
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8 years, 6 months ago
(AP) Last year's World Cup in Brazil may have been the "cup of cups" for soccer fans, but for Brazilian taxpayers, who forked out some $11.5 billion for the month-long tournament, its legacy has proven negative, according to two new films. ...
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8 years, 6 months ago
(AP) Guatemalan authorities on Tuesday called off the search for victims buried under a massive landslide that killed at least 280 people near the Central American nation's capital. The National Disaster Reduction Commission decided it was time to end the search ...
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8 years, 6 months ago
(AP) Rescue workers using shovels and pickaxes recovered more bodies from the rubble of a collapsed hillside on the outskirts of Guatemala City on Saturday as an official said the death toll had risen to 69 with another 350 people believed ...
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