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Venezuelan troops seized a cement plant owned by Mexico's Cemex SAB after a deal to nationalize the firm failed.
Troops occupied the Maracaibo Cemex plant in the western state of Zulia Monday night but plan to take control of all four Cemex plants in Venezuela Tuesday.
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 Officials are on high alert after an unidentified object
crashed into the desolate Andean plain near the Bolivian border, on
Saturday.
According to local media reports, the object that left an 8
meters deep and 20 meters wide crater is believed to be a meteorite.
Signs of sickness have been appearing ever since the...
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 According to Nicaraguan officials, at least 60 people have
died at the hand of Hurricane Felix after it hit the Caribbean
coast on Tuesday.
The worst damage was bound to come as Hurricane Felix’s
rampage continued. Meteorologists said that the hurricane would die down after
entering the Gulf of Mexico but they were
wrong.
The...
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 Two trains collided on Thursday killing eight people and injuring more than 80 others near Rio de Janeiro.
A speeding train carrying commuters hit the back end of another train as it was changing tracks.
The commuter train was traveling at speeds well over 100 km/h (60
mile) when it hit the train in front of it, which was slowly...
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 Peru is confronted with the jeopardy of infectious diseases
spreading and looting in the aftermath of the Wednesday 8
magnitude earthquake. Pisco is the most devastated town and President Alan Garcia has been monitoring
rescue efforts since Friday.
Though at first the first man in the state dismissed the
looting as rumors, the...
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 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made public the new proposed constitution that permits the president to seek re-election indefinitely. It’s very likely he will be the only one to benefit from such a measure. As he talked to the nation last night from the National Assembly, the 53-year-old president summarized his plans to create a new...
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 A strong earthquake of over 7 on the Richter scale shattered Peru,
casualties rising at more than 71 people killed and at least 680 injured,
announced governmental sources.
Central Peru was the most affected, the towns of Ica and
Pisco were the most damaged, according to Deputy Health Minister Jose Calderon.
The first and...
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 Cuba’s longtime leader Fidel Castro turns 81 today but, notwithstanding the midnight fireworks in the Cuban capital Havana, there are no plans of holding official celebrations to mark the occasion as the ailing president continues his slow recovery from surgery. Unlike the flashy spectacles of the past only a few social and political...
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 Hollywood star Sean Penn traveled the Venezuelan countryside along president Hugo Chavez. "I came here looking for a great country. I found a great country," the Oscar-winning actor said. "I'm also here as a journalist and so I owe it to that medium to wait until I've digested, fact-checked and finished my journey...
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Four New Yorkers, three Californians and a Minnesotan, all from minority backgrounds and coming from poor families, have graduated successfully from Havana's internatationally-recognized Latin American School of Medicine. They studied there for free, receiving everything from tuition to accomodation and textbooks."I will be heading...
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 President Hugo Chavez announced Sunday that foreigners who publicly criticize him or his regime will be expelled from Venezuela. A decision that came shortly after Manuel Espino, president of Mexico's ruling party, publicly criticized Chavez’ government at a pro-democracy conference held in Caracas"No foreigner can come here to...
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 Tropical Storm Hanna Raises Near Carolina
CNN meteorologists released a report on Tropical Storm Hanna saying that it made a landfall at about 3:20 a. m. ET on Saturday near the Little River Inlet at the South...
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Today is Thursday, June 5
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and...
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 General Petraeus Set for Central Command
It appears that U. S. President George W. Bush’s favorite
general has been handed the task of winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
as well as confronting the...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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