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After a 23 day hospitalization, Mexico’s oldest woman and quite possibly the oldest women in the world has taken her last breath; she was 119.

The spokesman for the state employees benefits agency in the western state of Colima, Jose Armando...

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They say truth is stranger than fiction. In this case it’s more horrific. From right out of some B-movie horror film we have the case of a Peruvian gang that, for...
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Some sectors of the fight against AIDS have suggested that Thabo Mbeki, the former president of South Africa, committed genocide through his absence from the fight...
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Colombia’s fight against drug trafficking is failing and needs new proposals and UN guidance, declared former Colombian Foreign Minister Rodrigo Pardo...
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The Texas Department of Public Safety is warning parents across the state to be aware of efforts by Mexican cartels and transnational gangs to recruit Texas youth in...
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On the steep, dusty slopes of the Chacaltaya mountains, thousands of meters above sea level in the Bolivian Andes, the hardy farmers tending root crops or herding...
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Obama Should Replace Failed Embargo With Effective Multilateral Policy By José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch (Washington, DC) - Raúl...
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Aaron, Mexico City
The lie-detector team brought in by Mexico’s top cop was supposed to help clean up the country’s long-troubled police. There was just one problem: Most of...
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Erick, Los Angeles
The Honduran Congress has scheduled a debate on the reinstatement of ousted President Mel Zelaya for three days after the Nov. 29 presidential election, ignoring...
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Small groups of Mapuche Indians have so rattled Chile by seizing forests, burning buses and attacking police to demand land and autonomy that the leftist government has...
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On November 7, 2009 a few friends and I had an opportunity to take a look inside a Brazilian jail outside the city of Rio de Janeiro. We were able to take some amateur...
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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 videos and magazines.

 
 
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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 disappearance and killings of government opponents in the 1970s and 1980s.

 
 
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Mexico announced a return to “normalcy” on Monday, preparing to reopen businesses and schools even as the virus sickened more than 1,200 people in 20 countries. World health officials said the global epidemic is still in its early stages, and that a pande

 
 
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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 classroom lecture.

 
 
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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 in the cold.

 
 
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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 “superstitious nonsense” during a classroom lecture.

 
 
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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 general was among those killed.

 
 
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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 economic crisis and an ambitious expansion of the Panama Canal.

 
 
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