| Weeks of rains leave thousands homeless in Mexico
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 AP - Tens of thousands of people have abandoned their homes across southern Mexico to escape flooding from weeks of torrential rains, and forecasts are predicting even more rainfall.
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| Drilling makes progress towards trapped Chile miners
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 AFP - A truck convoy bearing a huge oil drilling machine is expected to arrive Wednesday to offer a third rescue option, or "Plan C," for the 33 men trapped for a month at the bottom of a Chilean mine.
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| Press group: attacks on press in Mexico "a crisis"
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AP - The Committee to Protect Journalists says attacks on the press in Mexico represent a "national crisis" that demands "a full-scale federal response." |
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| Mexico: 2 bodies likely massacre investigators
(AP) |
 AP - Two dead bodies found in the northern state of Tamaulipas appear to be those of a state detective and local police chief who investigated the massacre of 72 migrants in August, prosecutors said.
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| Mexican media cowed by drug violence: committee
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Reuters - In January, gunmen kidnapped, tortured and shot dead Mexican reporter Valetin Valdes before dumping his body outside a motel, an apparent reprisal for having identified a drug lord in his newspaper. |
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| Gunmen burst into factory in Honduras, kill 18
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 AP - Men armed with assault rifles burst into a shoe factory and opened fire Tuesday, killing at least 18 workers and wounding five, Honduran authorities said.
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| 7 women in 'miscarriage' cases freed in Mexico
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AP - Seven women in Mexico serving prison terms of up to 29 years for the death of their newborns were freed Tuesday after a legal reform enacted in the state of Guanajuato lowered their sentences. |
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| Toll from Guatemala, Mexico landslides rises above 50
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 AFP - The toll from the heaviest rains in living memory in Guatemala and Mexico rose above 50, as Guatemalan officials called off the search for 15 more corpses over safety fears.
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| Report slams drug gang sway on Mexico media
(AFP) |
 AFP - Coverage of drug violence in Mexico, one of the deadliest countries in the world for the press, is increasingly dictated by powerful drug gangs, according to a report released Wednesday.
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| Report: Castro blasts Ahmadinejad as anti-Semitic
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 AP - Fidel Castro criticized Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for what he called his anti-Semitic attitudes and questioned his own actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 during interviews with an American journalist he summoned to Havana to discuss fears of global nuclear war.
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| Blast rips through Mexico oil refinery, kills one
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 Reuters - An explosion ripped through a major Mexican refinery on Tuesday, killing one worker and pushing gasoline and diesel prices higher on worries state oil monopoly Pemex will have to import more fuel.
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| US provides relief for floods in Guatemala
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 AFP - The United States said Tuesday it has requested 50,000 dollars in emergency aid for flood-hit Guatemala and reprogrammed another 4.38 million dollars in economic aid for recovery efforts.
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