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Mikel opts out of Mexico friendly
An official of the Nigeria Football Federation told Supersport.com that Mikel had asked to be excused from the tune-up match in order to rest and take care of personal ...
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Xis Latin American tour to enhance cooperation spokesman
Chinese president to visit three Latin American nations and US China will take the opportunity of President Xi Jinping's upcoming visits to three Latin American nations to further increase political trust and consolidate friendship with them, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Tuesday.Hong Lei's comments at a press briefing came after Qin Gang, also a Ministry of Foreign Affairs ...
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Ukrainian clubs Shakhtar Metalist target Brazil winger Osvaldo
Brazil international winger Osvaldo is reportedly a summer transfer target of Ukraine's Shakhtar Donetsk and Metalist Kharkiv.The 26-year-old has been in impressive form for Brazilian club Sao Paulo and has twice been capped by Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari this year.Sao Paulo have reportedly already received preliminary offers for Osvaldo from both clubs, considered two of ...
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RVania Resident Taxed By New Mexico
English: A Class A motorhome with the slide-out extended (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Full time RVers have not applied for statehood - yet. I have not been able to come up with a good estimate of what the population of RVania would be. I have seen estimates of anywhere from 200,000 to 1,000,000. The latter would put five states behind RVania in population. I saw one estimate, a bit implausible, ...
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Trial of Ex-Dictator of Guatemala May Have to Restart
the genocide verdict against a former dictator, Gen. Efran Ros Montt, lawyers on both sides of the case said Tuesday that his entire trial would probably have to be ...
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Alliance of the Pacific promotes meeting with business and finance global leaders
A meeting of leading world and regional business and finance corporations representatives is scheduled parallel to the Alliance of the Pacific presidential summit scheduled for this week in the Colombia city of Cali. According to the organizers the event has 250 CEO confirmed for the First Business meeting of the ...
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Nigeria to Free All Female Islamist Suspects
Nigeria says it will release several Islamist suspects from prison, including the women in custody, as it seeks peace with Boko Haram extremists. The Defense Ministry said Tuesday the move is in line with what it calls "presidential magnanimity to enhance peace efforts." A panel set up by President Goodluck Jonathan is recommending the government open peace talks with Boko Haram ...
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Avianca-Taca shake-up to affect 50000 passengers in Costa Rica
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica | Tue May 21, 2013 8:41pm EDT SAN JOSE, Costa Rica May 21 (Reuters) - Airline Avianca-Taca said on Tuesday that the cancellation of five routes to and from Costa Rica will affect some 50,000 passengers who will have to be re-routed or given refunds if they prefer. The cancelled routes between San Jose and Los Angeles, New York, Havana, Quito and Guayaquil account ...
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Protesters hurl firebombs as Chile leader speaks
SANTIAGO, Chile -- Bands of young people hurling firebombs and stones clashed with police outside Chile's congress Tuesday after thousands of students and workers staged a protest march before President Sebastian Pinera's final state of the nation speech.The president was not exposed to the violence around the legislature, which is in the port city of Valparaiso.Authorities said more ...
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Court Throws Out Genocide Ruling Against Former Guatemala Dictator
thrown out , as the country’s high court ordered a former dictator’s case on charges of genocide return to a lower court. Gen. Efran Ros Montt was just less than two weeks ago convicted of committing genocide against his own people during his time in power. According to the charges against him, Rios Montt was aware of the slaughter of at least 1,771 Ixil Mayans during the ...
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Genocide Denial in Guatemala
May 21, 2013 Guatemala's Constitutional Court has overturned the Ros Montt guilty verdict of May 10th, setting the legal proceedings back to April 19th - after the evidence was presented but before Ros Montt was declared guilty. The 3 to 2 decision relies on a technicality brought into play when Ros Montt's lawyers walked out of the court leaving him temporarily without ...
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Mexican tycoon Slim seeks funding details of U.S. protest group
People protest holding masks printed with the face of Mexican telecommunications and retail tycoon Carlos Slim as he attends the Meeting of Latin American Businessmen at a hotel in Lima May 3, ...
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Conservative political party files Supreme Court challenge to ruling on gay marriage in Brazil
BRASILIA, Brazil - A conservative party is challenging a judicial ruling that requires all of Brazil's notary publics to register same-sex civil unions as marriages if couples request it. Last week, the National Council of Justice that oversees the country's judiciary said notary publics cannot refuse to marry gay couples or convert a same-sex civil union into a marriage if ...
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Venezuelan opposition airs conspiracy recordings against Maduro from his own party
The Venezuelan opposition has released an audio recording that it said contains a prominent member of the ruling party discussing political strategy with a Cuban intelligence officer. Opposition lawmaker Ismael García said the recording captures a phone conversation between state TV personality Mario Silva, a staunch government ally, and a Cuban identified as Lieutenant Colonel Aramis ...
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Chile ranked third as most attractive country for copper mining investments
Chile is the third most attractive country for copper mining investments behind Canada and Australia according to a report from the Chilean Copper Committee, Cochilco that includes fifteen leading countries in the industry and was released this week by Mining minister Hernan de Solminihac in ...
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UPDATE 1-U.S. not respecting WTO ruling on meat labeling -Mexico
(Updates with agriculture minister's quotes) By Adriana Barrera MEXICO CITY, May 21 (Reuters) - The United States is not respecting a World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling on meat labeling, Mexico's Agriculture Minister Enrique Martinez said on Tuesday, saying it was hurting local industry. The WTO ruled in late June last year that a U.S. program for labeling imported meat unfairly ...
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REUTERS SUMMIT-Rates and reserve requirement to tame Uruguays inflation
Tue May 21, 2013 7:48pm EDT By Malena Castaldi and Felipe Llambias MONTEVIDEO May 21 (Reuters) - Uruguay's main economic problem is high inflation, and policymakers will continue to use interest rates and bank reserve requirements to bring it under control, Vice President Danilo Astori said on Tuesday. Consumer prices in the small South American country rose 8.14 percent in the 12 months ...
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On the Scene in Tornado Hit Town Even Trees are Stripped of Everything
VOA correspondent Greg Flakus is at the site of the tornado damage in Moore, Oklahoma. He spoke with English broadcaster David Byrd Tuesday afternoon about what he is ...
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Kerry Presses US-Russian Plan for Syrian Peace Talks
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets Wednesday in the Jordanian capital with senior diplomats from 11 nations, as part of a U.S.-Russian push to end Syria's civil ...
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Fabiola Santiago Damas de Blanco are true heroes
Las Damas de Blanco .Ten long years ago they came together after the government crackdown on dissidents and independent journalists known as Black Spring, when 74 men and one woman were thrown in prison and handed long sentences. The men were their husbands, fathers, sons and brothers. The Ladies in White became their voices on the outside.To this day, despite beatings and detentions, in ...
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Mexico-bound Surfers Eye dismantled
The Surfers Paradise Eye wheel is being dismantled and will be gone by next week. Pic: Scott Fletcher THE Surfers Paradise Eye has taken its last spin.The controversial attraction, plagued with problems for the past five years, will be pulled to pieces and shipped to Mexico after reportedly costing management $800,000 in the past year.Work began on dismantling the wheel atop the Surfers ...
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Guatemala ruling could keep ex-leader from prison
FILE - In this Friday, May 10, 2013 file photo, Guatemala's former dictator Jose Efrain Rios Montt wears headphones as he listens to the verdict in his genocide trial in Guatemala City. Guatemala's top court has overturned the genocide conviction of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt's and ordered his trial to resume. Constitutional Court secretary Martin Guzman says the trial ...
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Bolivia lashes at Sean Penn over jailed American
Actor Sean Penn arrives at Warner Bros. Pictures' 'Gangster Squad' premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on January 7, 2013 in Hollywood, California. (Jason Merritt, Getty ...
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Puma to sell gasoline-ethanol mix in Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -; A Swiss oil company says it will start selling regular gasoline mixed with ethanol as part of a pilot program in Puerto ...
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Cooperation in Education Between Cuba and Angola Deepened
Luanda, May 21 (Prensa Latina) The perspectives to widen and diversify cooperation between Angola and Cuba in education are promising, especially in the technical-professional teaching level, said an Angolan official here Tuesday. Narciso Damasio dos Santos Benedito, Secretary of State for the Angolan Technical-Professional Formation and Teaching, received Cuban Ministers Council vice president ...
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Jamaica comes under foreign media's microscope
Jamaica is a country used to reductionism, the complex island nation has more often than not been reduced to a stereotype of marijuana-infused surfers that say “chill mun” and listen to reggae. Perhaps this is why the recent drug-related violence in the capital has shocked the western media so much, perhaps this is why it has been glorified and dramatized to the extent it has, or perhaps it’s a reflection of the same forces that shaped the beach-stoner stereotype in the first place.
There is more to Jamaica than beaches, Reggae and a ‘chilled’ island lifestyle. Jamaica is not a little island of just a few hundred people living in huts on a white, sandy beach. It’s an island nation of 2.8 million people and it has a history of brutal slavery and colonialism, the legacy of which is still being redressed, like any developing nation it has a number of social ills and many of the population work hard for little pay and live in less than desirable conditions. Read more
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