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Former Guatemala dictator found guilty of genocide
Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt attends the last session of his genocide trial at the Supreme Court of Justice in Guatemala City on May 10, ...
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Brazils Tony Kanaan wins hotly contested Indianapolis 500
Tony Kanaan grabbed the lead after a final restart with three laps left Sunday and went on to record his first victory in 12 tries at the Indianapolis 500. The Brazilian cruised home under a caution after defending ...
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Mexico may retaliate in meat-label row with U.S.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Mexico may hit back with trade measures against the U.S. in reaction to a new rule requiring meat sold in the U.S. to carry labels specifying its origin, according to a media ...
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Mexico reforms knock Carlos Slim off worlds richest perch
MEXICO CITY -- Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim held the title of the world's richest man for the past three years until a new president rolled into town with a vast economic reform ...
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UPDATE 2-French lesbian love story wins top prize at Cannes
Sun May 26, 2013 4:18pm EDT * "La Vie d'Adele" wins Palme d'Or for best picture * Bruce Dern, Berenice Bejo win acting awards (Adds quotes from Spielberg, actors, director, details) By Belinda Goldsmith and Alexandria Sage CANNES, May 26 (Reuters) - An intimate lesbian love story by French director Abdellatif Kechiche won the top prize at the 2013 Cannes festival on Sunday, ...
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Aussie Swimmer Preps For Cuba-Keys Attempt
KEY WEST (CBSMiami/AP) -- An Australian woman is getting in some practice in the waters off Key West in preparation for her attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida. Endurance swimmer Chloe McCardel's attempt to cross the Florida Straits without a shark cage is set for June. McCardel estimated it would take 60 to 70 hours to complete the longest continuous solo swim in history. McCardel said ...
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PAL to launch flights to Brazil before yearend
Flag carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) plans to mount daily flights to Brazil before the end of the year--ahead of the football World Cup in South America's biggest country next year. Ramon S. Ang, president of both PAL and its parent firm San Miguel Corp., said flights to Sao Paulo would be mounted via Los Angeles in the United States. This follows the recent approval of new flight rights ...
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New Mexico Setting New Records With Drought
New Mexico is slipping further into drought, having marked the driest two-year period in nearly 120 years of record-keeping. National weather forecasters and water managers shared the latest statistics on New Mexico’s devastatingly dry conditions during a meeting Tuesday. They say the last 12- and 24-month periods have eclipsed even those dry times of the early 20th century and the ...
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Colombia and its rebels reach land reform deal
HAVANA (AP) -- Colombia and that country's largest rebel group have announced an agreement on one of their main bones of contention - land reform. The deal is the fruit of more than half a year of slow-moving peace negotiations in the Cuban ...
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BP Wins Eight Deepwater Exploration Blocks in Brazil Round 11
BP and partners Total, Petrobras and Petrogal were yesterday named winning bidders for eight deepwater blocks offshore Brazil in the Brazilian National Petroleum Agency’s (ANP’s) 11th bid round. BP will be operator in two of the ...
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Brazil cancels most African debt
Brazil has announced that it will cancel or restructure almost $900m (600m) worth of debt with Africa. Oil- and gas-rich Congo-Brazzaville, Tanzania and Zambia are among the 12 African countries to benefit. The move is seen as an effort to boost economic ties between the world's seventh largest economy and the African continent. Official data in Brazil show that its trade with Africa has ...
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Police 4 miners missing in Guyana jungle after boat overturns in river swollen by heavy rains
GEORGETOWN, Guyana - Soliders and police are scouring a swollen river in Guyana's remote western jungle for four miners whose boat capsized in rapids during heavy rainfall. Police Spokesman Ivelaw Whittaker says the four missing men were part of a group of seven miners heading into the resource-rich Cuyuni region bordering Venezuela when their boat overturned. A passing vessel managed to ...
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Guatemalan court hits rewind button on Rios Montts genocide conviction
Guatemala's Constitutional Court overturned former dictator Gen. Efrain Rios Montt's genocide conviction - seen as a landmark human rights ruling - and called for a re-do of closing ...
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Somali Militants Claim Attack on Kenyan Police
The Somali militant group al Shabab has claimed responsibility for a deadly cross-border attack on a Kenyan police station that killed at least six ...
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Peru goes in search of tighter ties with UAE
We need to educate both sides - Peruvians and the people in the UAE - about the two countries. From the Gulf we estimate 6,000 tourists went to Peru and within 1,000 from the UAE. About 1,000 tourists from Peru visited the UAE last year. In 2012, we had around 19 commercial missions ...
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Kenya Arrested British Solider Murder Suspect in 2010
Kenyan officials say a suspect in last week's savage murder of a British soldier in London was arrested in 2010 near the East African country's border with ...
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Australian Woman Plans Cuba-Keys Swim
Endurance swimmer Chloe McCardel has a practice swim scheduled Sunday in the waters off Key West. Her attempt at swimming across the Florida Straits from Cuba to the Keys without a shark cage is set for June.She's the latest swimmer to try the difficult crossing.American Diana Nyad has tried four times: once in 1978 with a shark cage, and three times in the last two years without it. After ...
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Brazil Credit Expansion Shrinks
Brazil credit contracting, but still above last year's totals. Brazil's credit expansion shrunk in the 12 months ending in April, but for close followers of this economy, that's actually a good thing. Other than the tight labor market keeping wages high in Brazil, years of ever-expanding government credit have had some calling it a bubble. Deceleration doesn't mean ...
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Rockets hit Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut 4 wounded
A Lebanese army officer investigates part of a rocket which struck a car exhibit on a street at the Mar Mikhael district, south of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday May 26, 2013. Rockets slammed Sunday into two Beirut neighborhoods that are strongholds of Lebanon's Hezbollah group, wounding at least 4 people, Lebanese security officials and media said. Tensions have been running high in Lebanon, and ...
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Kerry Travels to Jordan for Syria Talks
ADDIS ABABA -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry travels from Ethiopia to Jordan Sunday for a World Economic Forum that is expected to include talks on Syria. Secretary Kerry meets with Jordanian King Abdullah on his arrival in Amman for more talks on ending the Syrian conflict. He then travels to the World Economic Forum at the Dead Sea where discussions are expected to include efforts to ...
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Israeli President Israeli-Palestinian Peace Possible
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Kerry Meets Boston Marathon Winner in Addis Ababa
Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia reacts during the finish line ceremony after winning the men's division of the 2013 Boston Marathon in Boston, April 15, ...
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Maoist Attack in India Kills Congress Party Officials
A Maoist rebel attack in eastern India has killed at least 27 people, including several local officials of the country's ruling Congress ...
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Dindin Santiago bounces back for NU in Game 2 of V-League Finals
Dindin Santiago (facebook photo) MANILA, Philippines -- National University skipper Dindin Santiago vowed to bounce back after her forgetful performance in the V-League Finals opener. Santiago, the newly minted season MVP, delivered her promise as the Lady Bulldogs returned the favor to Ateneo with their own straight-sets win Sunday night. ';Medyo napahiya ako kasi MVP ako tapos wala ...
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Pirates free crew kidnapped from ship off Equatorial Guinea
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Four crew members kidnapped from a container ship off the West African nation of Equatorial Guinea in April have been released, the vessel's management company ...
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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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