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Assault on Qusair Intensifies Ahead of Hezbollah Speech
Syrian anti-government activists say Syrian troops have launched the heaviest barrage of gunfire yet in a week-long battle to re-take the strategic town of Qusair from rebel ...
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11 Dead in Philippines Clash
Authorities in the southern Philippines say at least 11 people have been killed in a clash between government troops and a Muslim militant gang. Military spokesman Brigadier General Domingo Tutaan said seven Philippine marines and at least four members of the al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf group died early Saturday in a firefight on the outskirts of Patikul town on the island of Jolo. Tutaan ...
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ArteBA 2013 art fair kicks off in Argentina
A visitor attends the "ArteBA 2013" art fair, in Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, on May 24, 2013. The fair is the most important contemporary art show in Argentina, with 82 galleries from Latin America, the US and Europe displaying 500 artists' works, according to the organizers. (Xinhua/Martin ...
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Argentine president to visit Brazil
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will meet on Friday her Argentine counterpart Cristina Kirchner for talks on enhanced bilateral cooperation, Brazilian authorities said Wednesday.The Brazil-Argentina Business Council created during Rousseff's visit to Argentina on Jan. 31 will meet for the first time in Brasilia on Friday, a statement released Wednesday by the Brazilian Foreign Ministry, ...
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International Fund for Animal Welfare Penguin Stranding Mystery in Brazil Prompts Rescue Attempt
Penguin Stranding Mystery in Brazil Prompts Rescue Attempt YARMOUTH PORT - August 7 - More than 1000 juvenile Magellanic penguins have washed-up either dead or dying along the Brazilian coast and as far north as Natal in Rio Grande do Norte, 3000 km north of Sao Paulo. IFAW (International Fund for Animal ...
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Argentina warns to bring Ghanas warship seizure to UN
Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman warned Friday that his country would resort to the UN if necessary over Ghana's seizure of its frigate. Ghana's seizure of Argentine warship Libertad is "illegal," because "the warship has immunity established in several international conventions signed by the Republic of Ghana," Timerman said at a press conference. ...
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At least 17 missing in Peru landslide
At least 17 people went missing early on Wednesday after a mudslide slammed into a peruvian village, civil defense officials said. The landslide occurred in El Porvenir, a village in the northern department of San Martin in the Amazonian region which was triggered by heavy rains Jorge Rios, chief of the Civil Defense Office of San Martin' s Regional Government (GRSM), said that rescuers ...
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African Union celebrates 50th anniversary
AFRICAN leaders have opened celebrations for the 50th jubilee of the continental bloc, with Africa's myriad problems set aside for a day to mark the progress that has been made. African Union (AU) chairman and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, in a speech to open the ceremony on Saturday, said the celebrations would look forward to "create a continent free from poverty and ...
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Video Time Lapse Peru Bolivia
Check out the mysterious sliding stones of Racetrack Playa, some insane star trails, and pink aurora in this time lapse video of Death Valley. Video courtesy ...
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61 injured in multiple vehicle crash in Brazil
Sixty-one people were injured, one seriously, in a multiple vehicle crash on early Tuesday in Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, official sources said. The accident involving two passenger buses and a public transportation minivan occurred along the Marechal Fontenelle Avenue, in the Sulacap district of western Rio, the sources said. According to a spokesmen from a local fire ...
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U.S. Secretary of State pays official visit to Peru
Photo provided by Peru's Presidency shows Peruvian President Ollanta Humala (R) shakes hands with visiting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during a joint news conference in Lima, capital of Peru, on Oct. 15, 2012. Clinton is on a two-day official visit to Peru. (Xinhua/Peru's ...
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1972 Uruguay air crash victims ate friends to survive
They survived by eating human flesh when the plane taking them to play a rugby match crashed down amid snow-covered mountains. And 40 years on, their cancelled fixture has finally been fulfilled. Old Christians Club players - from Uruguay - reunited to return to Chile, where they were stranded for 72 days in 1972. They and opponents the Old Grangonian Club lived up to their names - with ...
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Chavez proclaimed as elected president of Venezuela
Image provided by the Venezuelan Presidency shows Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez participating in the ceremony where he was proclaimed as the elected president of Venezuela for the 2013-2019 term by the National Electoral Council, in Caracas, capital of Venezuela, on Oct. 10, 2012. (Xinhua/Venezuelan ...
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Venezuelas Chavez names new vice-president
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has named a new vice-president, following his re-election on Sunday for another six-year term. Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro, one of the president's closest advisors, has been appointed for the job. He is a former bus driver who rose through the ranks of Mr Chavez' United Socialist Party. He would replace the president should his battle with cancer ...
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Ecuadors Correa to seek reelection
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa said Tuesday that he was ready to run again as candidate of the ruling Alianza Pais party in next year's presidential elections. "The family supports me and knows that we have a responsibility to the country," Correa told a gathering of the Ecuadorian Association of Radio-broadcasters in the port city of Guayaquil. "Without the support of ...
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Voters protest against election results in Venezuela
Supporters of opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles hold a protest against election results at Plaza Altamira in Caracas, Venezuela, on Oct. 8, 2012. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was reelected on Sunday. (Xinhua/David de la ...
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17 Children Dead in Pakistan School Bus Accidental Blast
A police officer in the city of Gujrat said the 17 victims burned to death when their bus caught fire in the blast. He said several other children were injured and hospitalized. Gujrat is about 200 kilometers southeast of the capital, ...
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Falkland Islands elected lawmaker will attend C24 regional seminar in Ecuador
Falkland Islands elected lawmaker Mike Summers will attend next week the Caribbean Regional Seminar of the Special Committee on Decolonization which is to be held in Quito, Ecuador in anticipation of the main C24 annual meeting in New ...
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Arizona Sheriff Ruled to Unfairly Target Latinos
A U.S. federal judge has ruled that an Arizona sheriff known for his tough policies has been singling out Latinos in immigration patrols and traffic ...
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Paraguay becomes observer of the Alliance of the Pacific despite Brazil and Mercosur
The Alliance of the Pacific announced this week that Paraguay had been accepted as an observer of the regional group. Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos chair and host of the alliance summit in Cali made it official during the reading of the final ...
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Brazil’s employment rate remains stable but job creation slowed in recent months
Brazil's jobless rate rose slightly in April for the fourth straight month but remained near record lows, suggesting that tight labour conditions bolstered a gradual recovery and fed into inflation, statistics agency IBGE said this ...
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Soldiers Place US Flags in Arlington Cemetery for Memorial Day
ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA -- On Memorial Day - Monday, May 27 this year - Americans remember those in the military who died while serving their country. Ahead of that day, soldiers place American flags in front of the more than 360,000 gravestones in Arlington National Cemetery, outside Washington. Army Colonel James Markert places a flag at the tombstone of Christopher Henderson, who was killed in ...
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Ecuador’s Correa begins third presidential term with high popularity
Ecuador's Rafael Correa began his third term as president on Friday under seemingly ideal conditions: extremely high popularity, a more than two-thirds majority in Congress, a stable economy and a badly splintered opposition.The combative leftist economist used the opportunity to bash a few of his favourite targets: The Organization of American States, the Inter-American Commission on Human ...
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Andres Oppenheimer While Pacific Alliance thrives Mercosur withers
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos may not have been hallucinating when he said last week that the Pacific Alliance — the bloc made up of Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile — “is the new economic and development engine of Latin America and the Caribbean.”Indeed, the Pacific Alliance, which was officially launched only one year ago, is growing rapidly and becoming a ...
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Rapes in Brazil Spur Class and Gender Debate
A wave of rapes on public transportation in Rio de Janeiro has led to the creation of women-only cars on trains, but some women say not enough is being ...
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Chemical castration in Argentina for rapists?
Chemical castration of rapists seems a good way to prevent them from re-offending. But, if the 'treatment' is reversible by simply not taking the medicine anymore, and if taking the treatment get the rapist a light sentence, is it fair that the victim still has to carry his child if he makes her pregnant in the attack?
It was announced by officials in Argentina’s Mendoza province on the 21st of March, 2010, that chemical castration has been authorized for rapists convicted in the province. The move came after what the authorities called, a “significant rise” in the number of sexual assaults last year. Read more
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