Tag: caribbean
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November 07, 2009 11:28 AM EST --
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Scores of relatives of the 228 people killed in the June 1 Air France jet crash dedicated a memorial in an upscale beach neighborhood Saturday amid strong criticism that the . . .
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November 07, 2009 11:28 AM EST --
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Recent arson attacks and shootings in this violence-wracked South American nation are the work of a mastermind living in the United States, Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo . . .
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November 07, 2009 03:05 PM EST --
CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — Officials readied storm shelters along Mexico's Caribbean coast Saturday and told fishermen and tour operators to pull in their boats amid warnings that Tropical Storm Ida . . .
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November 07, 2009 03:38 PM EST --
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — TAM Airlines says one of its jets took off from New York's JFK airport but was forced to return 20 minutes into the flight because of a mechanical problem.
TAM Linhas Aereas . . .
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November 07, 2009 08:26 PM EST --
MORELIA, Mexico (AP) — The Mexican army said Saturday it has seized a shipment of almost a quarter-ton of opium in the country's northern mountains, one of the largest such seizures made in Mexico. . . .
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November 07, 2009 10:14 AM EST --
HUAMPAMI, Peru (AP) — In his first year at San Marcos University, Hermenegildo Espejo barely spoke, and certainly not in class.
His Spanish was rudimentary, his accent an embarrassment. Classmates . . .
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November 07, 2009 12:39 PM EST --
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Scores of relatives of the 228 people killed in the June 1 Air France jet crash dedicated a memorial in an upscale beach neighborhood Saturday amid strong criticism that the . . .
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November 06, 2009 09:03 PM EST --
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A Danish tourist died Friday, two days after being shot by robbers who tried to steal his camera while he visited a cemetery. Police said two suspected gang members had been . . .
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November 07, 2009 12:04 PM EST --
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Police say a U.S. tourist who was pretending to be surfing on the hood of a friend's moving car was killed when he fell and broke his neck in a popular Puerto Rican . . .
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November 07, 2009 02:25 AM EST --
FILAS DE MARICHES, Venezuela (AP) — While a drought has put Caracas under widespread water rationing for the first time in years, for Venezuelans in this hillside slum it's just more of the same. . . .
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November 07, 2009 04:50 PM EST --
CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — Officials readied storm shelters along Mexico's Caribbean coast Saturday and told fishermen and tour operators to pull in their boats amid warnings that Tropical Storm Ida . . .
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November 06, 2009 06:39 PM EST --
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Populist leaders around Latin America are increasingly making legal and political moves to silence their media critics, the president of the Inter American Press Association . . .
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November 06, 2009 07:15 PM EST --
BOGOTA (AP) — Colombian officials say three adults have been killed and two children wounded in two related anti-personnel mine blasts in the country's northwest.
The top security official in . . .
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November 06, 2009 07:15 PM EST --
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian senators have taken a key first step toward replacing the prime minister they ousted a week ago.
In a 22-0 vote Friday, lawmakers affirmed that planning and . . .
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November 06, 2009 10:51 PM EST --
HAVANA (AP) — A senior Vatican official said Friday he has asked Cuba's government to allow the Roman Catholic Church more access to mass media, saying Cubans are a religious people and should be . . .
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November 06, 2009 10:51 PM EST --
ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — Paraguay needed a military shake-up to create opportunities for young officers with a proven commitment to democracy, President Fernando Lugo said Friday in his first explanation . . .
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May 25, 2007 12:25 PM EDT --
I was talking to Orlando Bloom the other day. I was trying to explain to him, in the gentlest terms possible, that his obsession with me . . .
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November 06, 2009 09:38 PM EST --
HAVANA (AP) — A Cuban blogger who has gained international attention for her searing commentary about life on the communist island said she was briefly detained Friday and warned by state security . . .
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November 06, 2009 09:38 PM EST --
VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico (AP) — A week of torrential rain has flooded the homes of more than 200,000 people along Mexico's Gulf coast, officials said Friday. Residents in some towns complained that . . .
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May 08, 2008 02:31 PM EDT --
Towels for Your Guest Bathroom
by Marilyn Mackenzie
Here's a link for something I'm sure you never knew you needed. It shows you how to fold towels so they . . .
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