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Suriname
Suriname's Location in S. America, Suriname, formerly Dutch Guiana, is located on the Caribbean coast of South America, between Guyana and French Guyana. ...
Costa Rica Home
The Story. Map of Costa Rica: shows each region visited. Miami: parrots, the wasteland, and President Nixon's vacation paradise. ...
Map of Bahamas
Barbados - LANIC
Categorized link collection from the University of Texas.
FIFA.com - Uruguay: FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking
FIFA.com - Uruguay: FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking. SkipNavigation. FIFA.com · FIFA World Cup™ · Tournaments · World Football ...
Brazil: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — Info..
Very basic information on the land, its people, history and government.
Haiti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Motto: "L'Union Fait La Force" (French) "Unity makes Strength". Anthem: La Dessalinienne · Location of Haiti · Capital · (and largest city) · Port-au- Prince ...
HRW WORLD ATLAS - Panama
Skip Navigation Links. Website navigation bar with links to a website index, Spanish-language version of this. Panama ...
Map of Grenada
CentralAmerica.Com Nicaragua - The most informative Nicaragu..
The perfect way to plan your vacation to beautiful Nicaragua. Background information about Nicaragua, complete maps and home pages for the best hotels.
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FBI HQ briefly evacuated after electrical fire
Authorities say the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., was briefly evacuated because of a small electrical fire in the basement.
'Sacred carnival' offers respite in troubled year ..
AP - Goat meat stewing on the stove and sweet potatoes baking in the oven. Cooked fish, complete with bones and eyeballs. Spicy peppers soaked in bottles of rum.
Prime accused in American Center attack may be sent to Kolka..
KOLKATA: Mohammed Sadiq alias Sadaqat one of the prime accused involved in the attack on the American Center seven years ago, besides recent serial blasts in the country, will be brought to Kolkata...
Police take news photographer's footage
Police confiscated video footage from an Oakland Tribune photographer who was filming students protesting federal immigration policy.
Evidence of a recession piles higher with new data
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AP - Evidence of a recession piled ever higher Friday, with new figures showing Americans are spending less and gloomy about the economy, while the government signaled it won't buy stock in the financing arms of auto companies to prop them up. The Commerce Department reported consumer spending dropped a sharp 0.3 percent in September while their incomes, the fuel for future spending, managed only a small 0.2 percent gain.
People Seeking a New Method to Treat "Gummy Smile" Treatment..
Dr. Alex Farnoosh, a Los Angeles cosmetic dentist, has seen an increase in the number of patients choosing to undergo a new method to treat their "gummy smile," an increase he attributes in part to hi...
Adviser: Michelle Obama's focus is on daughters
A co-chair of President-elect Obama's transition team says Michelle Obama as first lady will be focused on her two daughters and has no interest in having a seat at her husband's decision-making table.
Would-be Japanese space tourist wants $21M back
Japanese millionaire Daisuke Enomoto had planned to dress up as his favorite cartoon character in outer space and spent $21 million to make it happen. Now he claims the company that was supposed make his dream come true brushed him aside with little more than a "sorry, no refunds."
Saudi Arabia 'transfers Bahraini terror suspect to UAE'
Manama - An Emirates national of Bahraini origin detained by Saudi authorities for more than a year and a half as a terrorist suspect, has been transferred to United Arab Emirates authorities, Bahraini activists said late Tuesday. Khalil Janahi, who ...
The Great American shopping spree is over
They held tough through the tech-wreck and patriotically spent through 9-11, but U.S. consumers brought an end to 17 years of non-stop spending in the third quarter - the last gasp of which were fuell...
Tools In Place To Spur Growth, Job Creation
-(Dow Jones)- The White House said Friday that it has the tools to boost economic growth and create jobs. That reassurance comes after the U.S. unemployment rate rose to a 14-year high, and non-farm...
Group therapy may extend lives of cancer patients
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Reuters - Psychological group therapy for women with breast cancer may help them not only to cope better with their disease but also live longer, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
WITNESS: Berliners' love affair with America grows cold
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Reuters - Erik Kirschbaum, a U.S. citizen, has lived in German-speaking Europe for most of the past 26 years, and for 16 of them has worked as a Reuters correspondent in Germany. In the following story, he reports on the changing attitudes of Berliners toward his home country.
Man who threw pie at Vt. governor gets 5 work days
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BARRE, Vt. -- A man who hit Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas in the face with a pie during an Independence Day parade in Montpelier will spend five days on a work crew for the stunt. ...
Hoax NY Times newspaper declares end of Iraq war
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A group of pranksters handed out more than 1.2 million fake New York Times newspapers mainly in New York City and Los Angeles on Wednesday with a front page story declaring "Iraq ...
Scholar finds Mayans' buried highway through hell
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AP - Legend says the afterlife for ancient Mayas was a terrifying obstacle course in which the dead had to traverse rivers of blood, and chambers full of sharp knives, bats and jaguars.
Airlines begin cutting fares for holiday travel
Northwest Airlines started the rush Tuesday with a broad holiday fare sale Most other major carriers matched the prices Wednesday Travelers using secondary airports will get the biggest breaks
Obama victory sets off jubilation
From New York City's Harlem neighborhood, to the avenue in Atlanta where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was born, to Oakland, California, Americans black and white celebrated Barack Obama's election with tears, the honking of horns, screams of joy, arms lifted skyward — and memories of civil rights struggles past.
Oct Car Sales -7.9% At 15,889 Units
sales are 0.6% behind 2007 sales through October. "This is the toughest economy we've seen in a long time especially within the automotive industry." said
Britney Spears takes son on alligator park visit after hospi..
London, Nov 13 : American pop princess Britney Spears took her two sons to an alligator park just hours after one of them was released from hospital.
Gay marriage supporters march in Calif., Utah
Gay marriage supporters march in Calif., Utah Thousands of protesters angered by the passage of a state measure banning gay marriage took to the streets Friday in San Francisco and Long Beach, while t...
Times Square Getting Its First
NEW YORK (AP) ― This winter, New Year's Eve revelers will have a close-up view of Times Square's first environmentally friendly billboard powered entirely by wind and sun.But the billboard migh...
October Retail Sales Sink To 40-Year Low
(CBS/ AP) The nation's retailers saw their sales plummet last month to the weakest October level since at least 1969, as the financial crisis and mounting layoffs left shoppers too scared to shop.The ...
Economy won't stop Obama's priorities, aides say
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Reuters - The economic crisis will not stop President-elect Barack Obama from expanding health care, overhauling education and energy policy, and passing a middle-class tax cut soon after he takes office in January, senior aides said on Sunday.
Triple-Murder Stuns Silicon Valley Firm
opining on the Silicon India site about the technology industry, noting that "green technology is the buzzword of the day" and bemoaning the challenge of "hiring good analog designers."On Friday, howe...
Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline on fire after attack: TV
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Reuters - Unknown assailants launched an attack on the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline between Iraq and Turkey on Friday, triggering a large fire, broadcaster CNN Turk reported.
Feds bust ring which forced underage girls into prostitution
A ring of smugglers kidnapped young and underage girls in Mexico, snuck them into the United States and forced them into prostitution with beatings threats against their families,federal agents charge...
Junk-bond king among those seeking Bush pardon
Some high-profile convicts past and present are among more than 2,000 people asking President George W. Bush to pardon them or commute their prison sentences before he leaves office.
FDA finds traces of melamine in US infant formula
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AP - Traces of the industrial chemical melamine have been detected in samples of top-selling U.S. infant formula, but federal regulators insist the products are safe.
Terrorists may strike trains
Police bolstered security in subways and trains on Wednesday after the government said that al-Qaida suicide bombers were contemplating an attack on New York's mass-transit systems during the holiday ...
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