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Published: November 2, 2009
Official to aid Honduras
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — The U.S. secretary of labor and a former Chilean president were named Sunday to a commission tasked with monitoring the creation of a power-sharing government in Honduras, under a U.S.-brokered agreement to end the nation’s 4-month-old political crisis. Jose Miguel Insulza, the secretary-general of the Organization of American States, said Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and ex-President Ricardo Lagos will arrive in the Central American country Tuesday, accompanied by high-level OAS officials.
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Mexico returns 100 fugitives
MEXICO CITY — Mexico set a new high in extraditing criminal suspects to the U.S. on Sunday, reaching 100 so far this year in what the U.S. Embassy called a "record for bilateral cooperation between the two countries.” The milestone underscored the long distance the two countries have come since the 1990s, when Mexico was so loath to send fugitives north of the border that U.S.-paid bounty hunters kidnapped a suspect in Mexico and took him back themselves. The embassy said Mexican authorities sent back 11 suspects Sunday sought in the United States for crimes including murder, rape and drug trafficking. That raised the number for 2009 to 100 extraditions, compared to 95 in all of last year.ASIA
Fire kills 16 at residence
MANILA, Philippines — A fire swept through a residential building as people slept in a slum community in the central Philippines today, killing 16 residents including women and children. The fire started after midnight and rapidly spread because of strong winds, gutting the wooden two-story apartment building and more than 60 nearby shanties in Bacolod city, fire marshal Pamela Candido said.
N. Korea seeks direct talks
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea pressed the United States to accept its demand for direct talks on the communist regime’s nuclear program, saying today "we will go our own way” unless Washington agrees. North Korea’s Foreign Ministry did not elaborate on its comment.EUROPE
Statue honors Bill Clinton
PRISTINA, Kosovo — Thousands of ethnic Albanians braved low temperatures in Pristina to welcome former President Bill Clinton on Sunday as he attended the unveiling of an 11-foot statue of himself on a key boulevard. Clinton is celebrated as a hero by Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian majority for launching NATO’s bombing campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999 that stopped the Serb forces’ crackdown on ethnic Albanians.
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Bike bomb kills five
BAGHDAD — A bomb attached to a bicycle killed five people in southern Iraq on Sunday, and at least five others were killed in violence across the country, police said. Maj. Muthana Khalid said a booby trapped bicycle exploded at a popular fruit and vegetable market near Hillah.
Saudis find arms cache
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi authorities have discovered large quantities of weapons including 281 assault rifles in the capital Riyadh belonging to an al-Qaida terror network, an Interior Ministry spokesman said Sunday.
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Politics, World Politics, Trials, Extradition, Chilean Politics, Latin American Politics
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