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Permanent Consultative Committee of CITEL Discussed Telecommunications Policy and Regulation in Buenos Aires
May 23, 2013 The Permanent Consultative Committee of the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL) of the Organization of American States (OAS) today concluded its three-day meeting in Buenos Aires to discuss telecommunications policies and regulations. The 12th Meeting of the Permanent Consultative Committee I: Telecommunications/Technology brought together experts in ...
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Brazil to hold auction for off-shore oil
BRAZIL'S first auction of contracts to develop offshore oil and gas reserves in the pre-salt region will be held in October, or earlier than previously scheduled, the government ...
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Lawyer who defended former Italian militant Battisti appointed to Brazils Supreme Court
BRASILIA, Brazil - The lawyer who successfully defended former Italian militant Cesare Battisti against extradition has been named to Brazil's Supreme Court. President Dilma Rousseff appointed Luis Roberto Barroso to the high court on Thursday. Barroso represented Battisti in 2011 when the Supreme Court convened to decide whether to extradite him to Italy to be tried for four political ...
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Police in Brazil arrest 7 men 2 women on suspicion of sexually abusing indigenous girls
SAO PAULO - Brazil's Federal Police say nine people have been arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing Indians girls in the northern state of Amazonas. The force says two women and seven men in the city of Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira are in custody for the alleged sexual exploitation and abuse of Indian girls between the ages of 11 and 15. Federal police inspector Fabio Pessoa says ...
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Archaeologists in Mexico discover thousands of ancient cave paintings
Archaeologists are reporting the discovery of nearly 5,000 cave paintings at 11 different sites in Mexico, likely created by early hunter-gatherers. The red, white, black and yellow images discovered near Burgos in eastern central Mexico depict humans engaged in hunting, fishing and gathering, and animals such as deer, lizards and centipedes. The paintings are as yet undated but archaeologists ...
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Brazil drug traffickers fight back order curfew in Rio slums
- Drug traffickers in Rio de Janeiro ordered shops closed in one of its biggest slums early Thursday, defying efforts to restore order to the city's vast shantytowns and renewing safety concerns in Brazil as it prepares to host the World Cup and Olympics. Shops were shuttered and more than 5,400 children were turned away from school Thursday morning after traffickers, shouting from ...
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Syrias Civil War Fuels Violence in Iraq
Ominous ties are emerging between skyrocketing sectarian violence in Iraq and Syria's civil war. Analysts say al-Qaida-linked militants are flowing back and forth from both countries and are seeking to use religious differences to bring down the government, not only in Damascus, but also in Baghdad. Iraqis are witnessing the worst violence to rock their country in five years. Bombings ...
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Moore Oklahoma Holds First Funeral of Tornado Victim
Moore, Oklahoma held the first funeral for a victim of Monday's monster tornado -- a nine year-old girl killed when the storm tore apart her elementary ...
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Africa Tempts High-Tech Companies
Multinational high-tech companies looking for new frontiers and fresh ideas are lining up for a slice of Africa’s relatively untapped consumer market. Many experts are saying the continent is poised to be the next hotbed of technological innovation. Others are even more ...
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African Progress Panel Urges Leaders to Exploit Resources
ADDIS ABABA -- As the African Union celebrates the 50th anniversary of its founding, a group of respected leaders and activists led by former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is urging African leaders to maximize the continent’s natural resource potential. The African Progress Panel ...
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South Sudans President Says Never to ICC
South Sudan President Salva Kiir (L) meets his Kenyan counterpart Uhuru Kenyatta, who is on his first visit to the region as head of state, in Juba, South Sudan, May 23, ...
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Volunteers Help Revive LAs Concrete River
LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles River is a concrete drainage channel through much of its 80-kilometer length. It channels waste-water from storm drains and has become a receptacle for much of the city's trash. But, the river is slowly being restored to its natural state with the help of volunteers, who take part in an annual clean-up. Thousands of volunteers turned out on a recent weekend ...
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Video PM arrives in Colombia to talk trade with Pacific Alliance
The prime minister is in Colombia to observe the Pacific Alliance discussions -- grouping Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile. International Trade Minister Ed Fast called the countries Canada's most trusted partners in the ...
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Israels Hand in Guatemalas Genocide
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. (Photo credit: Jim Wallace of the Smithsonian Institution) At the height of Guatemala's mass slaughters in the 1980s, including genocide against the Ixil Indians, the Reagan administration worked with Israeli officials to provide helicopters that the Guatemalan army used to hunt down fleeing villagers, according to documentary and eyewitness ...
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EMERGING MARKETS-Mexico stocks recover after three-day rout
* Weak Chinese manufacturing hurts commodities stocks * Brazil's Bovespa flat; Mexico's IPC up 0.96 pct By Danielle Assalve and Gabriel Stargardter SAO PAULO/MEXICO CITY May 23 (Reuters) - Mexican stocks rebounded on Thursday after a three-day thumping as concerns the U.S. Federal Reserve might scale back stimulus measures had pounded the IPC index. Surprisingly weak economic data from ...
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84-year-old woman charged with trafficking cocaine marijuana in New Mexico
The Cloverdale Rodeo protester who filmed another woman in the throes of a racist rant before she was allegedly beaten up and then posted it on YouTube has done this sort of thing ...
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The Egg Without Salt Maduro Struggles to Govern Venezuela
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro greets supporters during a May Day rally in Caracas May 1, 2013. (Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters) Last month, Venezuela elected a president on the recommendation of Hugo Chavez. But as the problems the country faces loom larger, President Nicolas Maduro is finding his predecessor's one-man show a difficult act to follow. It was inevitable that ...
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Dissidents visits to Miami spur new conversation about Cubas opposition exiles
MIAMI - When Cuban hunger striker Guillermo Farinas arrived in Miami, he said he was prepared to face rejection from radical members of the Cuban-American community who do not believe in pacific opposition. The reaction has been far different. When he went to the Versailles restaurant, a traditional gathering spot for older exiles in the city's Little Havana neighbourhood, he was embraced. ...
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UPDATE 3-Brazil to auction its biggest-ever oil find in October
Thu May 23, 2013 4:45pm EDT * Production-sharing auction to be 1st under 2010 law * Giant Libra area seen producing up to 12 bln barrels * Auction moved up 1 month to meet president's schedule By Jeb Blount RIO DE JANEIRO, May 23 (Reuters) - Brazil plans to sell the right to explore and develop its largest-ever oil discovery in October, putting up for auction an offshore petroleum prospect ...
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Fitch Affirms Banco Internacional de Costa Ricas IDR at BB+ Outlook Stable
Thu May 23, 2013 4:38pm EDT (The following statement was released by the rating agency) SAN SALVADOR/NEW YORK, May 23 (Fitch) Fitch Ratings has today Affirmed Banco Internacional de Costa Rica's (BICSA) Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at 'BB+'. The Bank's Viability Rating (VR) and National Ratings in Panama were also affirmed. A full list of rating actions is at the end of this ...
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Safe Rooms Saved Lives in Tornado Disaster
WASHINGTON -- The scattered ruins of Moore, Oklahoma, a town devastated for the fourth time in 14 years by a major tornado, are a grim reminder that current building codes can’t do much to prevent property destruction and loss of life, especially when a powerful twister cuts through town. But the death toll can be dramatically reduced when people take shelter in underground storm bunkers ...
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Obama Renews Pledge to Close Guantanamo Prison
In a speech addressing U.S. national security and counter-terrorism strategy, U.S. President Barack Obama announced additional steps to reaffirm his pledge to close the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He said Guantanamo "has become a symbol around the world for an America that flouts the rule of law." In a speech Thursday at the National Defense University in ...
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Kenyan Cooperation with ICC Questioned
An April 2011 Combination picture shows Kenya's Uhuru Kenyatta, who was finance minister, and William Ruto, former Higher Education Minister at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The ...
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Telescopes Spot Colliding Galaxies
Several telescopes have teamed up to discover a rare and massive merging of two galaxies that took place when the universe was just 3 billion years old (its current age is about 14 billion years). (Photo: ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech/UC ...
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Dissidents find Cuba outside Cuba in Miami
MIAMI -; When Cuban hunger striker Guillermo Farinas arrived in Miami, he said he was prepared to face rejection from radical members of the Cuban-American ...
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Cuba and Venezuela pushing ahead with major undersea project
Submarine cables are the information gateways of the modern world and Cuba will soon be linked to Venezuela and Jamaica by one, which will increase the efficiency of information flows between the countries by over 3000 times.
Work on an underwater cable that will link Cuba, Venezuela and Jamaica is underway with the survey ship RV Ridley Thomas mapping the ocean floor between the countries to determine the exact path of the cable. Read more
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