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An advocate for child actors wants a judge to appoint a guardian to oversee the interests of Nadya Suleman’s octuplets if they are featured in TV shows, Internet...
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A former dictatorship-era official considered a brutal torturer by human rights groups has made a surprise return to Paraguay, where he faces six pending trials for the...
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A federal judge ruled that a public high school history teacher violated the First Amendment when he called creationism “superstitious nonsense” during a...
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The Southern Hemisphere has been mostly spared in the swine flu epidemic. That could change soon as winter sets in with no vaccine in place, leaving half the planet out...
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A federal judge has ruled that a history teacher at a Southern California public high school violated the First Amendment when he called creationism...
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Cuban singer Silvio Rodriguez says he missed Sunday’s tribute to folk music legend Pete Seeger because U.S. authorities failed to approve his visa in time.
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Police say they found 11 bodies dumped around a southern Mexican state, including seven wrapped in plastic bags and thrown off a bridge.
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Sixteen Venezuelan soldiers and a civilian were killed when a military helicopter crashed Sunday near the Colombian border, the state news agency reported. A brigadier...
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Conservative supermarket magnate Ricardo Martinelli won Panama’s presidential elections in a landslide Sunday, promising to guide the country through the world...
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Seventeen Venezuelan soldiers and a civilian were killed when a military helicopter crashed Sunday near the Colombian border, the state news agency reported. A...
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President Hugo Chavez says 18 soldiers have died in a helicopter crash near Venezuela’s border with Colombia.
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AP, Guatemala City
Seismologists are reporting a strong but deeply centered earthquake in Guatemala.
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Colombia’s social protection minister says a case of swine flu has been confirmed in the Andean nation. It is the first confirmed case in South America
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A conservative supermarket magnate is favored to win presidential elections Sunday that will determine who will oversee the completion of the expansion of the Panama...
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President Hugo Chavez met with a delegation from Iran on Saturday to prepare for an upcoming visit from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad _ an alliance that has provoked...
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Augusto Boal, the Brazilian theater director and playwright known for the interactive genre called the “Theater of the Oppressed,” died Saturday. He was...
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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Bolivia’s Evo Morales said Saturday they hope their countries are on the road to repairing badly strained relations.
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President Hugo Chavez on Friday condemned a U.S. report that alleges Venezuela fails to cooperate in fighting terrorism and called on President Barack Obama to end the...
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A quintessential theme, which is not necessarily popular by a majority, is the restoration of relations and lifting of the described embargo of Cuba by the United...
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A retired State Department worker and his wife have been arrested on charges of spying for Cuba for three decades, using grocery carts among their array of tools to...
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Fidel Castro again bristled at the Obama administration’s steps toward improving relations with Cuba, writing in a May Day message that the U.S. would like to see...
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Fidel Castro says that President Barack Obama “misinterpreted” his brother Raul’s sentiments toward the United States.
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There may not be a more pointless American foreign policy than the Cuban embargo. When Fidel Castro declared himself a community in 1961, President Kennedy crabbed a...
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Fidel Castro has called on Latin American countries to support an end to Cuba\’s isolation when they meet the US president at a regional summit.
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Cuban leader Fidel Castro impressed Pope John Paul II by reading up on his teaching and poetry ahead of their 1996 meeting at the Vatican, according to a new book on...
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Two of Cuba’s most prominent officials have resigned from all Communist Party and government posts after they were removed from the Cabinet and criticized by...
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Fidel Castro said Tuesday that two ousted senior officials were seduced by “the honey of power,” and he dropped hints that they may have dreamed of leading...
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Fidel Castro says he was consulted on the sweeping leadership changes by his brother Raul’s government and he says two of the ousted officials had been seduced by...
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President Raul Castro abruptly removed some of Cuba’s most powerful officials Monday, putting a personal stamp on the government in the biggest shakeup since he...
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says the 82-year-old Fidel Castro seemed “very, very good” when they met in Cuba last week.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has met twice with the ailing 82-year-old Fidel Castro during a surprise 24-hour visit to Cuba.
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Chile’s government has released photographs of a smiling Fidel Castro standing alongside visiting Chilean President Michelle Bachelet.
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The Chilean president says she met with Fidel Castro for 90 minutes, and the ailing Cuban leader appeared “in very good shape.”
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President Barack Obama intends to print “enormous sums of money” to keep American society from grinding to a halt, Fidel Castro said in his second critical...
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Fidel Castro on Thursday threw his first punch at President Barack Obama after several weeks of praise for the new leader, demanding the U.S. return Guantanamo Bay...
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