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CIA - The World Factbook -- Peru
Features a map and brief descriptions of geography, economy, government, and people.
Guatemala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jump to: navigation, search. This article is about the country in Central America. For other uses, see Guatemala ...
Brazil Travel Guide - Travel to Brazil
Brazil destinations. » Sao Paulo. » Brasilia. » Rio de Janeiro. » Belo Horizonte . » More destinations... Brazil guide. » Maps of Brazil ...
CIA - The World Factbook -- Saint Kitts and Nevis
Features map and brief descriptions of the geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues.
Brazil (1985)
Directed by Terry Gilliam. With Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond. A bureaucrat in a retro-future world tries to correct an administrative ...
HRW WORLD ATLAS - Haiti
Skip Navigation Links. Website navigation bar with links to a website index, Spanish-language version of this. Haiti ...
Trinidad & Tobago Government Portal
Official website for the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago providing access to Government services including links to government websites, ...
Panama (09/08)
Facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy , foreign relations of Panama.
CIA - The World Factbook -- Jamaica
Features a map and brief descriptions of geography, economy, government, and people.
Grenada Tourism Information - The Official Site of the Grena..
Grenada extends a special invitation to visit The Spice of the Caribbean. Share in the excitement and passion of Grenada's culture and enjoy our spicy ...
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Nearly 2,000 brought to safety in Texas
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AP - Rescuers said Sunday they had saved nearly 2,000 people from the waterlogged streets and splintered houses left behind by Hurricane Ike. Glass-strewn Houston was placed under a weeklong curfew, and millions of people in the storm's path remained in the dark.
Federer reigns in Gonzalez to sweep into Paris semis - Summa..
Paris - Roger Federer rallied after a slow start to take his place in a fourth consecutive semi-final at the French Open on Wednesday, stopping Chile's Fernando Gonzalez 2-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4. The Swiss player's mission to lift the Roland Garros title f...
Pak Information Minister Rehman refutes Mumbai top cop charg..
New York, Sept.24 : Pakistan's Information and Broadcasting Minister, Sherry Rehman, on Wednesday categorically rejected a Mumbai Police assertion that the ring leader of the squad used for conducting the serial bomb blasts in Ahmedabad in July this year was in Pakistan.
Feds ask to put wolves back on endangered list
BILLINGS, Mont. – Federal wildlife officials asked a judge Monday to put gray wolves in the Northern Rockies back on the endangered species list – a sharp reversal from the government's pr...
Al-Qaida: US economic crisis equals Muslim victory
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AP - An American member of al-Qaida pointed to economic troubles in the United States as proof that "the enemies of Islam" face defeat, in an English-language video released Saturday.
Voting is made easier for Americans abroad
Private organizations are focusing their efforts after disappointing results in 2006, when not even one million of the roughly six million eligible voters overseas managed to request and receive a ballot, and have it counted.
Up to 7 stabbed, 2 critically, in quarrel at trendy nightclu..
NEW YORK (AP) _ Police say as many as seven men were stabbed during a quarrel at a nightclub in New York City. Two are in critical condition.The bloody fight erupted around 4 a.m. Sunday inside the Ta...
Bush to bring out 8,000 troops from Iraq in Feb.
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AP - President Bush will keep roughly the same number of U.S. forces in Iraq through the end of the year and pull about 8,000 troops home by February, a drawdown that's both slower and smaller than long anticipated.
Campaign on hold, focus on economy
Obama says he plans to continue to prepare for Friday's debate Obama says he'll join McCain in Washington if it helps negotiations McCain to suspend advertising, calls for postponing Friday's debate O...
Japanese man can't be tried in LA for murder
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AP - A Japanese businessman cannot be tried for murder in the 1981 shooting death of his wife, but prosecutors may proceed with a charge of conspiracy to commit murder, a judge ruled Friday.
Drug Traffic Beneath the Waves
BAHIA MALAGA, Colombia -- In the annals of the drug trade, traffickers have swallowed cocaine pellets, dissolved the powder into ceramics and flown the drug as far as Africa on flimsy planes -- anything to elude detection and get a lucrative product to market. Now, the cartels seem to be increasi...
Families, neighbors mourn LA train wreck victims
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AP - Atul Vyas scored in the top 1 percent on his medical school entry exams, but he was having trouble answering one question on applications to Harvard and Duke: Describe a hardship you've overcome.
Woman faces charge after dishwashing dispute
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AP - Police say a 20-year-old woman faces an aggravated assault charge after she bit her boyfriend, broke a picture frame across his face and swung at him with a sword during an argument about him not doing the dishes.
Bush urges Congress to reconsider bailout plan
The White House Tuesday pushed again for passage of its $700-billion financial rescue plan, a day after the bailout collapsed in the US House of Representatives.
American Airlines considers a la carte pricing
The idea of paying a single, simple fare to fly on an airliner is becoming as quaint as stewardesses in short skirts.American Airlines is about to accelerate the trend of breaking the cost of a trip i...
Economy sheds most jobs since 2003, more cuts seen
Jobs are vanishing at the fastest pace in more than five years with pink slips likely to keep stacking higher in the months ahead, an urgent signal the country may be careening toward a deep and painful recession just as Americans prepare to elect a new president.
RI schools required to teach about dating violence
(AP Photo/Joe Giblin)Ann Burke talks about the new educational programs on teen dating violence while seated next to photos of her daughter Lindsay in her home in North Kingstown, R.I., Sept. 22, 2008...
Truck driver pleads guilty to killing NJ woman
A truck driver suspected of attacking women in several states along the East Coast pleaded guilty on Monday to killing a New Jersey woman.
Court upholds legality of SanFran health care plan
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AP - San Francisco's landmark universal health care program can continue to operate, after an appeals court ruled Tuesday that it does not violate federal law.
Schwarzenegger says he will veto Calif. budget
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AP - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made an extraordinary pledge Tuesday to veto the state budget because he said the long-overdue spending plan lawmakers approved hours earlier lacked long-term fiscal reforms and would burden taxpayers.
Miami assistant in surgery for undisclosed ailment
DAVIE, Fla. -- Miami Dolphins outside linebackers coach Jim Reid underwent surgery for an undisclosed ailment Thursday, coach Tony Sparano said."He's in surgery right now and it's a personal matter,"...
Akiko Wada performs at Apollo Theater in New York
NEW YORK — Singer Akiko Wada, 58, on Tuesday performed at the Apollo Theater in New York to mark the 40th anniversary of her debut. Wada is the first Asian to perform at the theater in its 140-...
Bush calls for united international front against terrorism
New York - US President George W Bush, in his final speech before the United Nations on Tuesday, called on the world to unite in the fight against extremism and terrorism. Addressing the UN General Assembly in New York, Bush said it is not enough to ...
Manufacturing shrinks to lowest level since 2001
A measure of U.S. manufacturing activity contracted more than expected last month, hitting the lowest level since the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, as new orders slowed dramatically.
Miami Children’s pioneers use of new diagnostic tool i..
Hospitals are places where even the smallest margin for error is unacceptable, so Miami Children’s Hospital has added a program to help its doctors up with a virtual medical library at their fin...
NY governor looks to lease state assets
Gov. David Paterson is proposing that New York join a growing number of states in leasing assets to private contractors to trim costs and provide long-term, steady revenue.
Correction: Prison Van Crash story
In an Oct. 3 story about the collision of an 18-wheeler and a prison van, The Associated Press, relying on information from the department of corrections, reported erroneously on the identity of one of the seven people killed. Department spokesman Brian Corbett issued a correction Monday stating that the crash victim was 52-year-old John Foye Sr., not his son, John Foye Jr., 20.
Health workers post patients’ photos on site, lose job..
ALBUQUERQUE: Two University of New Mexico Hospital employees have been fired for using their cell phone cameras to take photos of patients receiving treatment and then posting the images to a socia...
By air, boat and truck, search on for Ike victims
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AP - Rescuers in boats, helicopters and high-water trucks set out across the flood-stricken Texas coast Saturday in a monumental effort to reach tens of thousands of people who stubbornly ignored warnings of "certain death" and tried to ride out Hurricane Ike.
Grenade attacks kill seven at Mexico national day
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Reuters - Suspected drug gang hit men threw two grenades into a packed crowd celebrating Mexico's independence day, killing at least seven people and wounding more than 100 in a major escalation of a war between the government and cartels.
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