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Colombia ‘False Positive’ Killings Still Ongoing According To Report
Colombian Defence Minister Rodrigo Rivera and Police chief. (Photo: Globovision) The Centre for Popular Research and Education (Cinep) in Bogot has reported that during 2012 there were 11 separate cases of extrajudicial executions in Colombia, suggesting that executions known as ‘false positives’ are still ongoing. A further eight cases of arbitrary detention have also been ...
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UPDATE 2-Chile fines Barricks Pascua Lama halts gold project
Fri May 24, 2013 3:17pm EDT * Chilean regulator fines Barrick $16 million * Company says in process of reviewing regulator's demands * Barrick shares trade lower after being halted May 24 (Reuters) - Chilean environmental authorities on Friday ordered Barrick Gold Corp to halt work at its massive Pascua-Lama project and fined the company $16 million, citing serious environmental violations ...
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Brazil patient dies in ambulance fall
AN elderly Brazilian man suffering from Alzheimer's disease has fallen from an ambulance and died. Joao Pinheiro health department head Graciele Gomes da Silva says 82-year-old Luis Jose Lima apparently opened the ambulance's back door, fell to the highway and was hit by an oncoming car that left the scene. Silva says only after the ambulance continued for 10 kilometres did the driver ...
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Guatemalan ex-president extradited to U.S. on money laundering charges
1 of 4. Former Guatemalan president Alfonso Portillo (C), accused of corruption, is escorted before boarding a plane for his extradition to the United States for money laundering, at the Air Force Base in Guatemala City, May 24, ...
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Fitch Afirma la Calificacion Internacional de Banco Internacional de Costa Rica en BB+
U.S. prime money market funds (MMFs) increased their exposure to eurozone banks in April. However, even at 15.1%, asset allocations to these institutions remain well below 2011 levels, according to Fitch ...
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Seven migrants escorted back to Cuba
Seven migrants, whose boat from Cuba was intercepted May 18 by the U.S. Coast Guard, were returned to Cuba, the Coast Guard said. Their boat was taking on water near Card Sound Bridge, which connects the Florida Keys to the mainland, when it was rescued. The migrants were removed from the boat and given food, water, shelter and medical attention, The Miami Herald reported. Under U.S. law, ...
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Motion Filtering Ability Correlated to High IQ
Researchers at the University of Rochester in New York state say they can predict a person’s intelligence quotient, or IQ, using some simple visual tests. Test subjects were asked to watch brief video clips of black and white bars moving across a computer screen within three different sized circles. They were asked to identify in which direction the bars drifted. The exercise ...
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Planemaker Embraer Sees American Closing Out US Regional Jet Cycle
SAO PAULO -- Embraer SA, the world's third-largest commercial jet maker, expects just one more big regional jet order as a result of its current U.S. sales campaign, Chief Executive Officer Frederico Curado said in an interview, after the Brazilian planemaker clinched three of four major deals since December. "After the American Airlines competition, the game is over for a ...
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Obama Plan to Close Guantanamo Prison Faces Significant Obstacles
Activists wearing orange jumpsuits mark the 100th day of prisoners' hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay during a protest in front of the White House in Washington May 17, ...
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Immigrant Drama Shoots for Top Cannes Prize
CANNES -- America's immigration debate finds echoes in a period drama that premiered at the Cannes film festival on Friday about a Polish woman who arrives at Ellis Island and fights to survive in 1920s New York. "The Immigrant" features French Oscar winner Marion Cotillard as the immigrant Ewa, speaking English and Polish in the film, with Joaquin Phoenix and Jeremy Renner as ...
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Demand Grows for Global Ban on Killer Robots
LONDON -- United Nations’ special rapporteur on executions has joined calls for a moratorium on so-called ‘killer robots’ - automated weapons systems which critics fear may one day operate independently from human commanders. It may sound like something from a sci-fi movie - but campaigners say the threat is real and the robots already exist. A human-sized robot joined ...
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Guatemala extradites ex-president to US
GUATEMALA has extradited ex-president Alfonso Portillo to the United States to face charges of laundering $US70 million ($A72.19 million). "Farewell, people of Guatemala," Portillo, 61, said after describing his plane trip under the escort of US agents as a "kidnapping" and accusing the Guatemalan government of breaking the law. "They have acted illegally against me from the ...
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Ecopetrol Colombias Cano Limon Pipeline Halted After Rebel Attack
BOGOTA - Colombia's second-longest oil pipeline, the 480-mile Cano Limon, has stopped pumping after rebels reportedly used dynamite to blow up a portion of the line. A statement from state oil company Ecopetrol SA, which owns and operates the pipeline, said the attack occurred Wednesday near the village of Guachiman, in the northern state of Norte de Santander, which borders Venezuela. ...
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Organizations Demand in Geneva End to Blockade Against Cuba
Geneva, May 24 (Prensa Latina) Non-governmental organizations are calling in this capital for the U.S. blockade against Cuba to be eliminated, and for the Human Rights Council to create a special procedure to investigate the impact of this unilateral policy. That U.S. aggression, in existence for more than 50 years, is inhumane and intolerable, and violates the content and spirit of the United ...
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Bolivia - Bolivian community radio destroyed in clashes between rival peasant groups
Reporters Without Borders condemns the destruction of Radio AM 1080 La Voz de las Mayoras, a community radio station based in Caranavi, 160 km northeast of La Paz, on 21 May 2013.Affiliated with the network of Radios of the Original Peoples (RPO), the station was destroyed in clashes between two rival peasant groups, the Provincial Agrarian Federation of Peasants of Caranavi (FAPCA) and the ...
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Bill creates Dominican Republic’s 1st red light district submitted again
Santo Domingo. - Opposition deputy Esther Minyety on Friday said she submitted the bill to create the "red light district" to the lower Chamber, because the originally proposed legislation had expired. The PRD party legislator said she's confident the bill aimed at establishing norms for streets near historical places where women offer sexual services will pass. She said the ...
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Ex-Guatemala President Extradited to US
GUATEMALA CITY -- The lawyer for ex-Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo says he is being extradited to the United States to face money-laundering and embezzlement ...
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Chile blocks ops at Barricks Pascua mine reports
-0.51% Pascua-Lama project, according to reports Friday. Trading in U.S. shares of Barrick Gold were halted prior to the news reports, and remained halted at $19.45, down ...
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Top Bosnia court orders release of president charged with graft
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnia's Constitutional Court ruled on Friday that the president of the autonomous Muslim-Croat federation, charged with corruption, had been detained illegally, and ordered a lower court to release him ...
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President Maduro says Venezuela to create new workers militia to defend homeland
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro arrives to attend President Rafael Correa's swearing-in ceremony in Quito, Ecuador, Friday, May 24, 2013. Correa is starting a third term as president. (AP Photo/Dolores ...
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Canadian businessman on trial behind closed doors in Cuba as government mum on proceedings
Canadian businessman Sarkis Yacoubian goes to court for his corruption trial in Havana, Cuba, Friday, May 24, 2013. The trial of Yacoubian, who was president of import company Tri-Star Caribbean which was shuttered in July 2011, is under way nearly two years after he was detained. President Raul Castro has repeatedly spoken of a need to root out entrenched corruption on this Communist-run ...
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Mexican homebuilder Urbi seeks to reduce impact of payment freeze
MONTERREY, Mexico | Fri May 24, 2013 1:51pm EDT MONTERREY, Mexico May 24 (Reuters) - Troubled Mexican homebuilder Urbi, struggling with flagging sales and a heavy debt load, said it is looking to minimize the impact of a suspension in payments from state mortgage-lenders to Urbi and two other homebuilders. Two state mortgage-lenders, Infonavit and Fovissste, on Thursday stopped payments ...
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Spains Bankia sells City to Chiles BCI for $883 million
MADRID | Fri May 24, 2013 1:43pm EDT MADRID May 24 (Reuters) - Spanish nationalised lender Bankia sold City National Bank of Florida to BCI of Chile on Friday for $883 million, the bank said in a statement. Bankia expects to book 180 million euros ($233 million) in net capital gains from the sale, it said. ($1 = 0.7734 euros) (Reporting By Sonya Dowsett; Editing by Rodrigo de ...
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Ohio State Global Gateway program measuring worth before pitching Brazil office
Chris Carey, the director who oversees operations of Ohio State's Global Gateways program, said the university is still tinkering with the three-year-old initiative. Ohio State Universitys global initiative to open embassy-like overseas offices has plans for a third site in Brazil next year. But first, it has to collect enough data on efforts in China and India to convince trustees that the ...
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Why Humans Ancestors Began Walking Upright
What prompted our earliest ancestors to leave the safety of the trees and begin walking upright on two legs? Traditional theories point to climate changes that reduced tree cover and forced them to forage and hunt on solid ground. But a new study suggests a different evolutionary ...
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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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