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Florida FBI Shooting May Be Linked to Boston Area Triple Slaying
U.S. news reports say a Chechen man killed in an altercation with an FBI agent implicated himself in a triple slaying that may have been connected to dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan ...
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Religious Award Sparks Indonesia Protest
JAKARTA -- Leading religious figures in Indonesia have come out against a U.S.-based interfaith group's plan to award President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's support for religious freedom. They said it sends the wrong message about a country where religious minorities face increasing violence and persecution. Minority faiths in Indonesia are under attack. Local governments have been ...
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Massive fuel-depot fire breaks out in Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO -; A massive fire broke out Thursday at a fuel depot on the northern outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, sending bright orange flames leaping high into the air and thick black smoking rolling upward and enveloping the ...
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A year later U.S. trade with Colombia grows while anxiety mounts
WASHINGTON -- At the Colombian Embassy in Washington, Ambassador Carlos Urrutia says there’s no doubt that his country’s trade deal with the U.S. has paid off: Colombian businesses are sending more socks and cosmetics to California, beet sugar to New York and glass to Florida to help with hurricane repairs.U.S. officials are equally excited, saying U.S. businesses have improved ...
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Ecuador - Slow progress on free expression in Ecuador one year after U.N. review
Exactly one year ago, on 21 May 2012, Ecuador submitted to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) before the Human Rights Council of the UN, in Geneva, Switzerland. As a result of this second review 134 observations were received, 24 of them directly related to the right to freedom of expression; 18 States expressed their concern about the situation of this fundamental freedom in our country.In the ...
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Peru - Radio programme critical of mayor taken off the air in Peru
On 15 May 2013, the news program "Huaraz Noticias en Radio", broadcast by radio Alpamayo in Huaraz, and presented and directed by Gudelia Armida Glvez Tafur and Rosa Roque Daz, was unexpectedly taken off the air. This took place in the Ancash region of northeastern Peru.The radio journalists told IPYS that the radio station's owners, the evangelist group Vid Verdadera, simply ...
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Brazils ViaVarejo CEO quits cites Po de Acar meddling-letter
SAO PAULO | Thu May 23, 2013 12:22pm EDT SAO PAULO May 23 (Reuters) - The former chief executive of Brazilian appliance and furniture retailer ViaVarejo said on Thursday he quit because of strategic differences with executives of the controlling Grupo Po de Acar, according to his resignation letter that Reuters obtained. Antonio Ramatis Rodrigues took the helm at ViaVarejo just six ...
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19000 children missing in Colombia
Some 19,000 children are missing in Colombia, authorities said Wednesday. More than 4,000 unidentified remains of children have been found in mass graves and are being ...
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Ecuador satellite collides with Russian space junk
A small Ecuadoran satellite collided in orbit with the remains of a Russian rocket, but it is too soon to know how much damage it might have sustained, Quito's space agency said ...
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Killing of British soldier stirs tension in poor corner of London
LONDON (Reuters) - The gory killing of a British soldier at the hands of two suspected Islamist militants has shone a spotlight on Woolwich, the London district where it happened, stirring racial tensions in one of the most ethnically diverse parts ...
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Brazil oil prospect Libra has up to 42 bln barrels of oil -ANP
RIO DE JANEIRO | Thu May 23, 2013 11:40am EDT RIO DE JANEIRO May 23 (Reuters) - Brazil's Libra prospect in the subsalt area that will be auctioned in the second half of October has between 26 billion and 42 billion barrels of in-place oil, Magda Chambriard, director of the ANP oil agency said on Thursday. "This is really different; it's very big," she said of a column ...
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Global Advocacy Group Urges Pakistan to Protect Press
ISLAMABAD -- A U.S.-based international press watchdog organization is calling for the incoming Pakistan government led by Nawaz Sharif to take urgent steps to stem "the murderous silencing" of the press by bringing to justice those who have attacked journalists. The Committee to Protect Journalists said many reporters killed in Pakistan during the past decade were targeted and ...
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Gay Rights Activist Held in China
BEIJING -- A young gay rights activist was detained last week in the southern city of Changsha, following a rally organized by local groups to mark an international day against homophobia, his lawyer said. The man, 19-year-old Xiang Yuhan, was taken into custody early Saturday after police came to his hotel room. "He’s been put under administrative detention for 12 days on ...
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Canada businessmans corruption trial on in Cuba
HAVANA -; The trial of a Canadian businessman caught up in a corruption probe in Cuba is apparently under way nearly two years after he was ...
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Pesky garden snails make profits in Colombia
A retired couple in Colombia has turned their plant eaters into a thriving business that exports four tons of snail meat a month to Europe. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown ...
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Former Colombian prosecution officials extradited to the US
Two fired Colombian prosecution officials on Wednesday have been extradited to the United States for selling classified information to drug traffickers, local media reported ...
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Colombia’s opposition demands Santos be treated as presidential candidate
The socialist opposition party has no faith the president will keep his promise to obey electoral regulations applied to sitting presidents with reelection aspirations. Santos said earlier this week he would comply with all regulations when he announced the formation of a team of top allies to prepare the ';reelection of his peace ...
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Indie Shop Mother Plots Expansion to Brazil
Independent agency Mother is planning to open its fourth office in Brazil next year and has asked creative Gustavo Sousa to lead the charge. ...
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UPDATE 1-Canadian businessman goes on trial in Cuban corruption crackdown
Thu May 23, 2013 10:37am EDT * Importer expected to plead guilty, faces up to 12 years in prison * Case is part of broad government corruption crackdown * Trials of more foreign businessmen expected By Marc Frank HAVANA, May 23 (Reuters) - The trial of a Canadian businessman who has confessed to bribing Cuban officials began on Thursday, almost two years after his arrest in a sweeping government ...
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Asian European Stocks Plunge on Weak Chinese Factory Data
Japan's Nikkei stock index tumbled 7.3 percent after release of the report showing Chinese factory production dropped in May for the first time in seven months. It was the biggest one-day loss since Japan's March 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster. Stocks in London, Paris and Frankfurt followed suit, dropping about 2 percent. U.S. future indexes fell ahead of the opening of ...
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Kerry Hague try to Revive Mideast Talks
The top diplomats of the United States and Britain have made a joint attempt to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks by shuttling between Jerusalem and Ramallah to meet the leaders of both ...
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At Least 19 Soldiers Killed in Niger Attack
Niger's government said at least 19 soldiers were killed Thursday in a gunbattle that followed twin bombings at a military base and a French-owned uranium mine. Security officials said the car bomb attack occurred outside a military barracks in the town of Agadez, located about 800 kilometers northwest of the capital, Niamey. A government spokesman said several attackers emerged from ...
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Brazil to Hold First Pre-Salt Oil Exploration Auction in October
RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil will hold its first auction of pre-salt oil exploration acreage under the country's new production-sharing regime in October, one month earlier than expected. Brazil's National Energy Policy Council, or CNPE, announced the decision in Thursday's Federal Register. The first area up for bidding will be the Libra prospect, which local regulators estimate ...
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In Brazil Let The Lay-Offs Begin
Unemployment inched up in Brazil in April and is expected to end the year around 6.5%, according to the International Monetary Fund. After years of record low unemployment, lackluster investment by corporations, and sub par growth last year is finally weighing in. Earlier on Thursday, the Brazilian Institute for Statistics, known as IBGE, showed that the April unemployment rate rose to 5.8% ...
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Soldiers carrying 300 kilos of cocaine arrested in northern Colombia
According to the reports the two active soldiers and one retired major were arrested Tuesday in the municipality of Plato, Magdalena. The military members were arrested while trafficking the drugs along ...
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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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