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Torrential rains kill 18 in Guatemala
(Reuters)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 02:33:18 GMT
Reuters - At least 18 people were killed in Guatemala on Saturday, including a dozen on a bus that was buried in a landslide, as heavy rains lashed the Central American nation and southern Mexico.
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Chile miners face uncertain rescue date
(AFP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:32:27 GMT
 AFP - The 33 men trapped deep below ground in a Chilean mine face a grim milestone Sunday -- a month since the cave-in that stranded them -- as officials warn it could take months more to rescue them.
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Salvadoran police find over $9M in cash in drums
(AP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:15:51 GMT
 AP - Police in El Salvador have found two buried oil drums stuffed with millions of dollars in cash possibly linked to the illegal drug trade, authorities said Saturday.
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14 killed in Guatemala floods, Colom declares emergency
(AFP)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:26:20 GMT
 AFP - President Alvaro Colom declared a national emergency in Guatemala after weeks of driving rains triggered landslides Saturday that killed 10 people on a bus and four inside a home.
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'Alive' survivors to Chilean mining kin: Be strong
(AP)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:24:55 GMT
 AP - Former rugby players from Uruguay who survived more than two months of isolation in the snow-covered Andes met on Saturday with some of the relatives of 33 trapped miners and urged them to stay strong.
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Venezuela OKs payment for French retailer Casino
(Reuters)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:09:56 GMT
Reuters - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has approved a $690 million payment to French retailer Casino and other owners of a supermarket chain nationalized earlier this year, state media said on Saturday.
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Robbers burn clothing store, 6 die in Barbados
(AP)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:41:17 GMT
AP - Robbers set a clothing store ablaze, killing at least six people in the normally peaceful capital of Barbados, police said Saturday.
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Judge orders Mexico drug lord 'La Barbie' held for 40 days
(AFP)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:05:39 GMT
 AFP - A Mexican federal judge has ordered 40 days of initial detention for Edgar Valdez, a notorious accused drug lord who police arrested this week, the attorney general said Saturday.
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Mexican judge orders drug lord held 40 more days
(Reuters)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:09:27 GMT
 Reuters - A Mexican judge ordered Edgar "La Barbie" Valdez, believed to be one of the country's top drug bosses, held for 40 more days of investigation, the federal prosecutor's office said on Saturday.
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Judge orders alleged kingpin 'La Barbie' held
(AP)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:41:15 GMT
 AP - A judge has ordered a U.S.-born suspected drug lord known as "La Barbie" held for 40 days pending an investigation into organized-crime and other possible charges, authorities announced Saturday.
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Mexico arrests 6 in deadly Cancun bar blaze
(AP)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:51:12 GMT
 AP - Mexican police have arrested six suspects in a bar fire that killed eight in the resort city of Cancun.
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Official: Honduran helped massacre survivor flee
(AP)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:31:32 GMT
 AP - A Honduran who survived the massacre of 72 migrants in Mexico helped untie the only other survivor — a wounded Ecuadorean — and the two fled together, an official said Friday.
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Two Mexican congressmen die in plane crash
(Reuters)
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:30:17 GMT
 Reuters - Two members of Mexico's Congress were among six people killed on Friday when their private plane crashed near a popular Mexican Pacific beach resort, officials said.
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Captain sentenced for smuggling trip that killed 9
(AP)
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:57:50 GMT
AP - The captain of an overcrowded Haitian boat that capsized in 2009, killing at least nine people, has been sentenced to 14 years and four months in prison.
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Graft trial starts for former Guatemala leader
(Reuters)
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:58:43 GMT
Reuters - The embezzlement trial of former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo, accused of stealing millions of dollars of public funds and wanted in the United States, began Friday in a Guatemalan court.
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Small signal, big meaning? Castro in military duds
(AP)
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:33:53 GMT
 AP - Fidel Castro dusted off his full military uniform for the first time since stepping down as president four years ago, a symbolic act in a communist country where little signals often carry enormous significance.
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At least four dead in fresh clash in north Mexico
(AFP)
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:43:16 GMT
 AFP - At least four people died in a clash between soldiers and suspected drug gang members in northeastern Mexico, a day after 25 outlaws died in a shootout with soldiers nearby, police said Friday.
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Mexico: Soldiers kill 30 in troubled border state
(AP)
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:32:24 GMT
 AP - Mexican soldiers killed at least 30 suspected cartel members in two shootouts near the U.S. border in a region that has become one of biggest battlegrounds in the country's drug war, authorities said Friday.
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Cuba's Fidel Castro makes first public speech in years
(Reuters)
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:32:17 GMT
 Reuters - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, wearing his green military cap and clothing like the commandant of old, made his first speech before the Cuban public Friday since falling ill in 2006, warning of the threat of nuclear war.
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Mexican women work, die for gangs in drug war city
(Reuters)
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:25:42 GMT
 Reuters - More women are working and dying for powerful drug cartels in Mexico's most violent city as high unemployment along the U.S. border sucks desperate families into the lethal trade.
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