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14 decapitated bodies found in Mexico resort city
Updated: Sat, Jan 8, 2011
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Police found the bodies of 15 slain men, 14 of them headless, on a street outside a shopping center in the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco on Saturday. Police in the southern state of Guerrero, where Acapulco is located, said handwritten signs were left with the bodies, a common calling... Read More
Chile prison fire kills at least 83
Published: Wed, Dec 8, 2010
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A fire that began during a riot in a severely overcrowded prison killed at least 83 inmates Wednesday and seriously injured 14 others, officials said. Chileans nationwide could hear the screams of inmates after a prisoner using an illegal cell phone called state television for help.... Read More
Chile official: 1st miner to surface Tuesday
Published: Tue, Oct 12, 2010
SAN JOSE MINE, Chile (AP) — The first of 33 trapped miners is expected to be lifted to the surface late Tuesday after surviving more than two months about half a mile below ground, Chilean officials announced. Mining Minister Laurence Golborne announced said that officials "hope to have at least one of our... Read More
Brazil to pick successor for popular president
Published: Sun, Oct 3, 2010
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilians vote Sunday in national elections that could see front-running candidate Dilma Rousseff become the country's first female president, succeeding her popular ally and mentor. Rousseff, a 62-year-old former guerrilla, represents the ruling Workers Party and is the hand-chosen... Read More
9/11 conspiracy theories rife in Muslim world
Published: Sat, Oct 2, 2010
ISTANBUL (AP) — About a week ago, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared to the United Nations that most people in the world believe the United States was behind the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. To many people in the West, the statement was ludicrous, almost laughable if it weren't so... Read More
Couple charged in nuclear weapons secrets case
Published: Fri, Sep 17, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) — A scientist and his wife who both once worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory were arrested Friday after an FBI sting operation and charged with conspiring to help develop a nuclear weapon for Venezuela. After their arrest, the two appeared in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M. They were... Read More
Cuba to cut 500,000 government workers; reform salaries
Published: Mon, Sep 13, 2010
HAVANA (AP) — Cuba announced Monday it will cast off at least half a million state employees by mid-2011 and reduce restrictions on private enterprise to help them find new jobs — the most dramatic step yet in President Raul Castro's push to radically remake employment on the communist-run island. Castro... Read More
Fidel Castro says he was misinterpreted on Cuban economy
Published: Fri, Sep 10, 2010
HAVANA (AP) — Fidel Castro says his comments about Cuba's communist economic model were misinterpreted by a visiting American journalist.
Appearing at the University of Havana on Friday, the 84-year-old ex-president says he meant "exactly the opposite" of the quote contained in a blog by Atlantic magazine... Read More
Gunmen burst into factory in Honduras, kill 15
Published: Tue, Sep 7, 2010
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Men armed with assault rifles burst into a shoe factory and opened fire Tuesday, killing at least 15 workers and wounding eight, Honduran authorities said. National police spokesman Leonel Sauceda called the attack in the northern city of San Pedro Sula "a massacre." He said the... Read More
Report: Castro blasts Ahmadinejad as anti-Semitic
Published: Tue, Sep 7, 2010
HAVANA (AP) — Fidel Castro criticized Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for what he called his anti-Semitic attitudes and questioned his own actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 during interviews with an American journalist he summoned to Havana to discuss fears of global nuclear war. Jeffrey... Read More
Guatemala mudslides kill at least 38; 2 buses hit
Published: Sun, Sep 5, 2010
NAHUALA, Guatemala (AP) — Torrential rains from a tropical depression caused landslides that have killed at least 38 people in Guatemala — some of them rescuers who had come to save people already trapped by a wall of mud. In the village of Nahuala, about 200 rescue workers searched through mud and rocks for... Read More
Fidel Castro makes 1st official gov't appearance
Published: Sat, Aug 7, 2010
HAVANA (AP) — A lively and healthy-looking Fidel Castro appealed to President Barack Obama to prevent a global nuclear war in an emphatic speech Saturday that marked his first official government appearance since emergency surgery four years ago. Castro's speech before the Cuban parliament, along with other... Read More
Kennedy home after brief hospital visit
Updated: Sat, Sep 27, 2008
BOSTON (AP) -- Sen. Edward Kennedy, who has brain cancer, has returned home after being taken to a hospital by ambulance because he had suffered a seizure, his staff says.
A statement issued by his office attributed the "minor seizure" Friday to a change in medications. He was back home a few hours... Read More
Rescued Colombia hostages head home to Florida
Updated: Mon, Jul 7, 2008
SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- Three Americans freed after being held more than five years by rebels in Colombia gave thanks Saturday and urged people to not forget other hostages who were left behind.
They headed home to Florida after 10 days of treatment at Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston.... Read More
Venezuela's Chavez mends Colombia ties
Updated: Mon, Mar 3, 2008
PARAGUANA, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Colombia's Alvaro Uribe mended relations Friday after months of sniping that threatened trade and unleashed a diplomatic crisis between Latin America's top U.S. opponent and closest U.S. ally.
Chavez, who just months ago called reconciliation... Read More
Mugabe blames West for Zimbabwe's food shortages
Updated: Tue, Jun 3, 2008
ROME (AP) -- Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, whose authoritarian rule has brought widespread hunger to his country, defended his policy of seizing land from whites on Tuesday, saying he is undoing a legacy of Zimbabwe's former colonial masters.
Mugabe spoke to world leaders at a U.N. summit on the... Read More
Indictment: Reputed Russian arms smuggler conspired to kill
Updated: Fri, Mar 7, 2008
NEW YORK (AP) -- Prosecutors announced an indictment Tuesday against a reputed Russian arms smuggler who they say tried to sell weapons to a U.S.-designated terrorist organization with the goal of killing Americans.
The indictment charges Viktor Bout with four terrorism offenses, including conspiring to... Read More
Thousands rally in May Day effort for immigration reform
Updated: Thu, May 1, 2008
CHICAGO (AP) -- Thousands of chanting, flag-waving activists rallied in cities across the country Thursday, attempting to reinvigorate calls for immigration reform in a presidential election year in which the economy has taken center stage.
From Washington to Miami to Los Angeles, activists demanded... Read More
Penn Out As Clinton Senior Strategist
Updated: Mon, Apr 7, 2008
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Hillary Rodham Clinton is turning to her communications chief and pollster to plan her presidential election strategy after giving the boot to a polarizing top aide because of his work on behalf of a trade agreement Clinton opposes.
Mark Penn, a lightning rod for controversy... Read More
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