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North Koreas Kim Sends Envoy to China
The official Korean Central News Agency said Choe Ryong Hae, the director of the General Political Bureau of the North Korean army, left Pyongyang for China Wednesday. The brief report provided no details about the purpose of the trip. Choe is believed to be the highest-level official Pyongyang has sent to Beijing since Mr. Kim took over leadership of the country following the death of his ...
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Leisure and pleasure Caribbean way of life
St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves has cited the "leisure and pleasure" way of life as one of the "anti-social" trends developing in the Caribbean in the past ...
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Brazil is Australias perfect match ANU
Australia should boost its ties with Brazil as the South American nations continues its transformation into a global power, an ANU expert ...
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Guatemala trial of Rios Montt has likely collapsed - lawyers
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - The trial of former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt has likely collapsed after the country's top court struck down his conviction for genocide, defence and prosecution lawyers said on ...
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Mexican soldiers move in to protect towns under siege by Knights Templar drug cartel
Residents greet Mexican army soldiers as they enter the town of La Ruana, Michoacan, Mexico, Monday, May 20, 2013. Residents of western Mexico towns who endured months besieged by a drug cartel are cheering the arrival of hundreds of Mexican army troops. A growing number of people in the state of Michoacan have taken up arms to defend their villages against drug gangs, a vigilante movement born ...
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US Senate Committee Approves Immigration Reform Bill
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a massive immigration reform bill, voting to send it to the entire Senate for debate. Tuesday evening's vote was 13 to five. It came after one of the bill's eight sponsors, Democrat Patrick Leahy, withdrew an amendment that would have given same-sex couples the same legal protections in immigration questions as heterosexual ...
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Venezuela parliament resumes 3 weeks after brawl
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks during the departure of Simon Bolivar's school sailing ship at the naval dock in La Guaira Venezuela, Monday, May 20, 2013. The ship with 175 people on board starts his twenty-fifth cruise abroad instruction. (AP Photo/Ariana ...
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Mikel opts out of Mexico friendly
An official of the Nigeria Football Federation told Supersport.com that Mikel had asked to be excused from the tune-up match in order to rest and take care of personal ...
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Xis Latin American tour to enhance cooperation spokesman
Chinese president to visit three Latin American nations and US China will take the opportunity of President Xi Jinping's upcoming visits to three Latin American nations to further increase political trust and consolidate friendship with them, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Tuesday.Hong Lei's comments at a press briefing came after Qin Gang, also a Ministry of Foreign Affairs ...
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Ukrainian clubs Shakhtar Metalist target Brazil winger Osvaldo
Brazil international winger Osvaldo is reportedly a summer transfer target of Ukraine's Shakhtar Donetsk and Metalist Kharkiv.The 26-year-old has been in impressive form for Brazilian club Sao Paulo and has twice been capped by Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari this year.Sao Paulo have reportedly already received preliminary offers for Osvaldo from both clubs, considered two of ...
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RVania Resident Taxed By New Mexico
English: A Class A motorhome with the slide-out extended (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Full time RVers have not applied for statehood - yet. I have not been able to come up with a good estimate of what the population of RVania would be. I have seen estimates of anywhere from 200,000 to 1,000,000. The latter would put five states behind RVania in population. I saw one estimate, a bit implausible, ...
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Trial of Ex-Dictator of Guatemala May Have to Restart
the genocide verdict against a former dictator, Gen. Efran Ros Montt, lawyers on both sides of the case said Tuesday that his entire trial would probably have to be ...
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Alliance of the Pacific promotes meeting with business and finance global leaders
A meeting of leading world and regional business and finance corporations representatives is scheduled parallel to the Alliance of the Pacific presidential summit scheduled for this week in the Colombia city of Cali. According to the organizers the event has 250 CEO confirmed for the First Business meeting of the ...
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Nigeria to Free All Female Islamist Suspects
Nigeria says it will release several Islamist suspects from prison, including the women in custody, as it seeks peace with Boko Haram extremists. The Defense Ministry said Tuesday the move is in line with what it calls "presidential magnanimity to enhance peace efforts." A panel set up by President Goodluck Jonathan is recommending the government open peace talks with Boko Haram ...
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Avianca-Taca shake-up to affect 50000 passengers in Costa Rica
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica | Tue May 21, 2013 8:41pm EDT SAN JOSE, Costa Rica May 21 (Reuters) - Airline Avianca-Taca said on Tuesday that the cancellation of five routes to and from Costa Rica will affect some 50,000 passengers who will have to be re-routed or given refunds if they prefer. The cancelled routes between San Jose and Los Angeles, New York, Havana, Quito and Guayaquil account ...
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Protesters hurl firebombs as Chile leader speaks
SANTIAGO, Chile -- Bands of young people hurling firebombs and stones clashed with police outside Chile's congress Tuesday after thousands of students and workers staged a protest march before President Sebastian Pinera's final state of the nation speech.The president was not exposed to the violence around the legislature, which is in the port city of Valparaiso.Authorities said more ...
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Court Throws Out Genocide Ruling Against Former Guatemala Dictator
thrown out , as the country’s high court ordered a former dictator’s case on charges of genocide return to a lower court. Gen. Efran Ros Montt was just less than two weeks ago convicted of committing genocide against his own people during his time in power. According to the charges against him, Rios Montt was aware of the slaughter of at least 1,771 Ixil Mayans during the ...
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Genocide Denial in Guatemala
May 21, 2013 Guatemala's Constitutional Court has overturned the Ros Montt guilty verdict of May 10th, setting the legal proceedings back to April 19th - after the evidence was presented but before Ros Montt was declared guilty. The 3 to 2 decision relies on a technicality brought into play when Ros Montt's lawyers walked out of the court leaving him temporarily without ...
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Mexican tycoon Slim seeks funding details of U.S. protest group
People protest holding masks printed with the face of Mexican telecommunications and retail tycoon Carlos Slim as he attends the Meeting of Latin American Businessmen at a hotel in Lima May 3, ...
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Conservative political party files Supreme Court challenge to ruling on gay marriage in Brazil
BRASILIA, Brazil - A conservative party is challenging a judicial ruling that requires all of Brazil's notary publics to register same-sex civil unions as marriages if couples request it. Last week, the National Council of Justice that oversees the country's judiciary said notary publics cannot refuse to marry gay couples or convert a same-sex civil union into a marriage if ...
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Venezuelan opposition airs conspiracy recordings against Maduro from his own party
The Venezuelan opposition has released an audio recording that it said contains a prominent member of the ruling party discussing political strategy with a Cuban intelligence officer. Opposition lawmaker Ismael García said the recording captures a phone conversation between state TV personality Mario Silva, a staunch government ally, and a Cuban identified as Lieutenant Colonel Aramis ...
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Chile ranked third as most attractive country for copper mining investments
Chile is the third most attractive country for copper mining investments behind Canada and Australia according to a report from the Chilean Copper Committee, Cochilco that includes fifteen leading countries in the industry and was released this week by Mining minister Hernan de Solminihac in ...
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UPDATE 1-U.S. not respecting WTO ruling on meat labeling -Mexico
(Updates with agriculture minister's quotes) By Adriana Barrera MEXICO CITY, May 21 (Reuters) - The United States is not respecting a World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling on meat labeling, Mexico's Agriculture Minister Enrique Martinez said on Tuesday, saying it was hurting local industry. The WTO ruled in late June last year that a U.S. program for labeling imported meat unfairly ...
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REUTERS SUMMIT-Rates and reserve requirement to tame Uruguays inflation
Tue May 21, 2013 7:48pm EDT By Malena Castaldi and Felipe Llambias MONTEVIDEO May 21 (Reuters) - Uruguay's main economic problem is high inflation, and policymakers will continue to use interest rates and bank reserve requirements to bring it under control, Vice President Danilo Astori said on Tuesday. Consumer prices in the small South American country rose 8.14 percent in the 12 months ...
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On the Scene in Tornado Hit Town Even Trees are Stripped of Everything
VOA correspondent Greg Flakus is at the site of the tornado damage in Moore, Oklahoma. He spoke with English broadcaster David Byrd Tuesday afternoon about what he is ...
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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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