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U.S. womens soccer stars to Brazil
When it comes to foreign aid, sending soccer players to Brazil might seem a bit like shipping coals to Newcastle.But when those players are women, the story is different. As part of the State Department’s Empowering Women and Girls Through Sports Initiative, retired U.S. women’s soccer players Julie Foudy and Brandi Chastain (yes, the one who tore off her shirt) are traveling to ...
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Canadian Prime Minister Travels to Peru and Colombia
Ottawa, May 21 (Prensa Latina) Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper travels to Peru and Colombia today as part of its strategy to strengthen relations with Latin America and the Caribbean in the complex global economic scenario. According to an official statement, Harper will review on Wednesday with Peruvian President Ollanta Humala, the current state of their business and discuss prospects ...
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Ecuador Presents its Tourist Destinations in Peru
Quito, May 21 (Prensa Latina) Ecuador presents its diverse destinations that cover coastal, mountainous and snow regions, and islands in the XV International Tourism Fair (SIT), in Peru. This event will bring together, from May 23 to 25, the main tour operators and service companies in Peru and the world, such as hotels, airlines, and car rentals, among others. According to the Ministry of ...
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South Sudan Army Recaptures Boma Officials
BOR, SOUTH SUDAN -- The South Sudanese Army (SPLA) has recaptured the town of Boma in Jonglei state after a brief battle with rebels led by David Yau Yau, SPLA officials said Monday. "The SPLA yesterday restored law and order to Boma and chased away the militia from Boma town," army spokesman Philip Aguer said. Four SPLA soldiers died in the fighting and 12 were wounded, Aguer ...
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Antonio Banderas to play Super Mario in film of Chilean miners rescue
Antonio Banderas will star in a movie as one of the 33 Chilean miners trapped deep underground for more than two months in 2010, and the charismatic survivor he's playing couldn't be ...
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Colombia says security measures ready for upcoming Pacific Alliance summit
Colombian authorities have said security measures are in place for a two-day summit of Pacific Alliance later this week in Cali, capital of the western province of Cauca.Colombia has deployed more than 3,000 police officers to ensure the safety of the heads of state and other top officials at the event, and 180 motorbikes, 60 patrol cars, a helicopter and an unmanned aircraft are used for the ...
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Brazil China to cooperate on digitalization of historical archives
Antunes said that Brazil can learn a lot from China when it comes to digital preservation of archives, as China has much more experience on this ...
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Guatemalas Highest Court Overturns Genocide Conviction of Former Dictator
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Valley Fever Raises Concerns in California Arizona
LOS ANGELES -- A longstanding health problem in California's Central Valley has worsened in recent years, leading health officials to order the relocation of 3,000 prisoners from two state prisons. But the disease affects much of the population in some rural communities and, while it often goes unnoticed, it sometimes can be devastating for patients. Dale Pulde is selling his California ...
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Guatemala top court overturns genocide conviction
GUATEMALA CITY -; Guatemala's top court has overturned the genocide conviction of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt's and ordered his trial to ...
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Former Olympic champion Maggi ponders retirement
Brazil's former Olympic long jump champion Maurren Maggi has conceded her dream of competing at the Rio 2016 Games could be over after failing to qualify for this year's World Championships in Moscow.The 36-year-old managed a best jump of just 5.92 meters to finish in last place during her final World Championship qualifying event in Sao Paulo on Sunday.She blamed a lack of support and ...
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Colombia confirms killing of FARC security chief
Colombian authorities announced on Monday that they had killed Ernesto Hurtado Penaloza, the head of security for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla group.Penaloza, also known as "el Negro Eliecer," was in charge of the security detail for the FARC's top commander Rodrigo Londono Echeverri, known by his nom de guerre "Timochenko,"said Colombian ...
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Venezuela opposition Cuba calls the shots
CARACAS -- Venezuela's opposition on Monday released an audio recording that it said contains a prominent member of the ruling party discussing political strategy with a Cuban intelligence ...
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Senate Panel Accuses Apple of Using Complex Tax Loopholes
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State medical examiners office 37 killed in Oklahoma tornado death toll expected to rise
May 20 Oklahoman staff tornadoes/storms gallery View photos of the May 20, 2013, tornado and severe weather damage 41 ...
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Zim to Boost Asia-South America Rates in Mid-June
will raise rates for all shipments on its trade from Asia to the east coast of South America, starting June 15.The increase will be $500 per 20-foot container and $1,000 per 40-foot container, the carrier said.Containerized exports from Far East Asia to South and Central ...
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Man Linked by U.S. to Hezbollah Is Arrested in Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO -- The Brazilian police have arrested a businessman listed by the United States as a member of Hezbollah, the powerful Lebanese militant group, under suspicion of operating a fraudulent scheme in the clothing industry -- a far cry from the arms, drugs, explosives and counterfeit bills that American officials have suspected him of trafficking in during the ...
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Autopsy Ex-Argentina dictator Videla died from injuries suffered in fall in shower at age 87
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Preliminary autopsy results say former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla died from fractures and a hemorrhage suffered in a fall in the shower while he was serving a life sentence for human rights violations. The 87-year-old was found dead Friday in his prison cell, five days after he fell. The preliminary report released Monday says the hemorrhage that he ...
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Fr. Lombardi Brazil Expected to Be Popes Only 2013 International Trip
Spokesman Also Confirms Benedict XVI's Move Back to the VaticanVATICAN CITY, April 25, 2013 (Zenit.org) - During a press conference at the Foreign Press Association headquarters in Rome, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Holy See Press Office, stated that the Pope's upcoming trip to Brazil for World Youth Day will be the only international trip for Pope Francis this ...
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Penn urges US to pressure Bolivia to free US man
WASHINGTON -- Actor Sean Penn is urging the U.S. government to pressure Bolivia to free an American businessman jailed there since 2011.Penn says international pressure is what Bolivian President Evo Morales needs to free Jacob Ostreicher of New York.Ostreicher was granted house arrest in December after being jailed 18 months without being charged with any crime. He was arrested in a money ...
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Iran Will Let Argentina Question Suspects in Anti-Semitic Attack
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has approved a deal with Argentina that clears the way for an investigation of an attack that killed 85 people at a Jewish cultural centre in Buenos Aires in 1994, an Iranian diplomat said Monday. Ali Pakdaman, charge d'affaires at the Iranian Embassy in Argentina, told Argentine radio station Del Plata that the deal will not go through the ...
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Are We Becoming Argentina - By Daniel Altman
A popular and often rueful saying in Argentina holds that the country can only be governed by Peronists. Avowed followers of former Argentine president Juan Domingo Pern have used their malleable brand of populism to dominate the political scene for half a century, even when nominally out of power. This kind of domestic hegemony may seem very distant from Washington's bipolar politics, ...
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Colombia making ‘great strides’ protecting indigenous lands lobby group
Colombia this month became one of the first in Latin America to declare indigenous sacred land to be of "national and cultural interest," according to lobby group Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) who helped with the ...
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Uribe to be investigated for leaking secret military information
The investigation at the request of congressman Ivan Cepeda, will determine whether Uribe committed a criminal offense or jeopardized national security by disclosing the information on Twitter. Uribe tweeted on April 7 that there was "another suspension of military operations and more impunity for the murderers of three Colombian soldiers," before he revealed the co-ordinates to the ...
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CTS Australasia Exports to South America Plummet
Containerized export volume from Australasia/Oceania to South and Central America steeply declined in March 2013, according to data from Container Trades Statistics ...
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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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