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Former West Vancouver policewoman found murdered in her home on Mexico’s Mayan Riviera
The annual Cannes festival on the French Riviera is the grandest platform in the world for the highest ambitions of film, a place where the art form is worshipped with wild passion and adoring ...
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Cave Paintings Found In Mexico 5000 Ancient Works Depict Humans Animals
The 4,926 paintings were found in Burgos , in the mountainous northeastern state of Tamaulipas, in Mexico, reports the BBC. The beautiful pictures, cataloged with the help of the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), were presented by researcher Martha Garca Snchez at the second meeting of Historic Archaeology, in Mexico City's National History ...
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Fitch Afirma en A Calificacion de Bonos Corporativos de la Universidad Latina de Panama
U.S. prime money market funds (MMFs) increased their exposure to eurozone banks in April. However, even at 15.1%, asset allocations to these institutions remain well below 2011 levels, according to Fitch ...
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Guatemalan ex-president extradited to U.S. on money-laundering charges
Former Guatemalan president Portillo is escorted before boarding plane for his extradition to United States for money laundering, in Guatemala ...
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Guyana to crack down on female trafficking in rural mining camps
GEORGETOWN, Guyana - Guyana is establishing a task force to help eradicate trafficking of underage girls in mining camps in the South American country's interior. National Security Minister Clement Rohee said Friday that the government has identified 14 locations that it will target in upcoming weeks. The announcement comes after opposition leaders demanded an official probe into ...
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Chile slaps $16 million fine on Canada mine company
SANTIAGO (AFP) - Chile's environmental authorities slapped a $16.4 million fine Friday on Canadian mining company Barrick Gold for "serious" violations at its unfinished gold mine near the border with Argentina.Officials here said the fine was levied after a four-month investigation into practices by Nevada Mining Company SpA, a subsidiary of Barrick Gold, which is developing the ...
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How a toilet paper shortage may temper Chavismo in Venezuela
People wait in line as they buy toilet paper in a super market in Caracas May 17. Supplies of food and other basic products have been patchy in recent months, with long queues forming at supermarkets and rushes occurring when there is news of a new stock arrival. The situation has spawned jokes among Venezuelans, particularly over the lack of toilet ...
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UPDATE 1-Schlumberger extends Venezuelas PDVSA $1 bln credit line
Fri May 24, 2013 5:16pm EDT By Deisy Buitrago MORICHAL, Venezuela May 24 (Reuters) - Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA will receive a revolving credit line of at least $1 billion from oil services giant Schlumberger, the OPEC nation's oil minister said on Friday. The deal will provide some financial breathing room for PDVSA, which as of last year had built up $16.5 billion in debts to ...
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Mexico oil output holds steady in April at 2.518 mln bpd
MEXICO CITY | Fri May 24, 2013 5:07pm EDT MEXICO CITY May 24 (Reuters) - Mexico's state oil monopoly Pemex said on Friday it produced an average 2.518 million barrels of crude oil per day in April, just up over March's daily average of 2.516 million ...
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UNHCR Keep Borders Open to Fleeing Syrians
GENEVA -- The United Nations refugee agency is appealing to nations to keep borders open to refugees fleeing worsening violence in Syria. With Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq already hosting more than 1.5 million Syrian refugees, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) warns the number is expected to grow as the conflict intensifies. Responding to reports that Syrians ...
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Putting Slurplus Food to Good Use
With world headlines warning of increasing drought and a hunger crisis and almost 15 percent of U.S. households struggling to put food on the table, a religious group in the shadow of the nation's capital is quietly putting surplus food on empty tables. Every Monday, about 150 people line up in the parking lot of Christian Life Center in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Joan ...
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Valdez Back in Big Uruguay Squad for Busy June Calendar
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IMF chief named key witness in French payoff case
International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde arrives for a second day of the court hearing at a special court house, in Paris, Friday, May 24, 2013. Lagarde faced questioning at a special Paris court Friday over her role in the 400 million euro ($520 million) pay-off to a controversial businessman when she was France's finance minister. (AP Photo/Thibault ...
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ELN Greets Peace Forum for Colombia in Porto Alegre
Bogota, May 24 (Prensa Latina) The leader of the Ejercito de Liberacin Nacional (ELN)guerilla, Nicolas Rodriguez, reiterated his willingness to engage in dialogue with the Colombian government while greeting the peace forum in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre. The meeting, inaugurated today in the Legislative Assembly of Rio Grande do Sul in support of talks between the Government and the ...
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Caribbean Fostering Protection for Coast and Sea Resources
Necker Island, UK Virgin Islands, May 24 (Prensa Latina) Representatives form governments and entrepreneurs from 15 Caribbean nations gathered in this 74-acre island in the north of the UK Virgin Islands, agreed to start the second stage of an initiative called "Caribbean Challenge" to face the environmental threats in the region, said a local press media Friday. To protect 20 percent ...
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Paco de Lucía Returns to Cuba After 26 Years
Havana, May 24 (Prensa Latina) The legendary Spanish guitarist Paco de Lucia returns to Cuba with flamenco concert after 26 years without appearing in this country, today announced the maestro Leo ...
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Documentary About Arsenio Rodriguez Debuts in Cuba
Havana, May 24 (Prensa Latina) Part of the life and work of Cuban composer and tres player Arsenio Rodriguez (1911-1970) has been put together in a documentary premiered here by the Recordings and Musical Editions Company (EGREM). Conceived on DVD, was designed as part of the 17th International Fair Cubadisco 2013 and includes recordings in the United States, where the author of popular topics ...
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Ex-Guatemalan President Extradited To U.S.
Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo speaks with journalists in Guatemala City before boarding a plane for the U.S. on ...
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Barrick fined $16 million over gold-mining project in Chile
Friday, May 24, 2013 | 1:30 p.m. VALLENAR, Chile -- Chile's environmental regulator blocked Barrick Gold Corp.'s $8.5 billion Pascua-Lama project on Friday and imposed its maximum fine on the world's largest gold miner, citing "very serious" violations of its environmental permit as well as a failure by the company to accurately describe what it had done wrong. After a ...
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Costa Rica Might Be ChangingPolicy on GMO Foods
Although transgenic soybeans, cotton and some corn has been grown in Costa Rica since 1991, groups that oppose genetically modified crops are increasing pressure on the government to slow the permit process for future GM crops, reports Ag ...
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Nepal’s Tibetan Refugees Struggle Under China’s Shadow
KATHMANDU -- Tibetan refugees in Nepal say they face increasing restrictions from Nepalese authorities due to pressure from China. VOA correspondent Aru Pande talks to Tibetans who, for decades, have made the Himalayan country their home. Dolma Lama learned to weave Tibetan carpets from her mother - who fled Tibet and settled in Kathmandu after a failed Tibetan uprising against Chinese ...
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Ex-Guatemala president extradited to US
Former president of Guatemala, Alfonso Portillo, left, speaks to the press as he is led by police to an aircraft that will fly him to the United States from Guatemala City, Friday, May 24, 2013. Portillo was extradited to the United States to face charges of laundering $70 million in Guatemalan funds through U.S. bank ...
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Honduras - Journalists targeted in gunfire in northern Honduras
Journalist Ramn Maldonado and camaraman Daniel Snchez from Canal Litoral Atlntico, in the city of La Ceiba, Atlntida department, escaped unharmed from an firearms attack by an unidentified suspect riding a motorcycle.On Monday 20 May 2013 in Colonia Villa Antonella, minutes after leaving the Canal Litoral Atlntico building around 9 a.m., a motorcyclist drove in front of Maldonado and shot ...
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IFC affirms commitment to private sector capital market development in the Dominican Republic
Santo Domingo.- IFC Vice President and Treasurer Jingdong Hua said today that private sector development is key to supporting long-term growth and poverty reduction in the Dominican Republic. Hua is visiting the country for the first time as VP and Treasurer of IFC, a member of the World Bank Group. Hua met with government and regulatory officials to discuss how IFC can support the development ...
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Manufacturing slump paces Dominican Republic 0.3 1Q growth
Santo Domingo.- Dominican Republic's economy grew barely 0.3% in the first quarter, much slower than forecast, the Central Bank announced Friday. In its preliminary report the monetary authorities noted that in the first quarter of 2012 the economy grew 3.8%, 4.3% in 2011 and 7.5% in 2010. Key sectors with a strong impact on employment have fallen thus far this year, including retail ...
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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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