Haiti panel recommends restoring army
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A press liaison for Haitian President Michel Martelly says a presidential commission is urging the leader to restore the nation's disbanded army. Vladimir Laguerre of the National Palace says the recommendation for the force came in a report. Martelly was expected to restore the army through a decree in November but instead said he would form a panel to study the issue. The restoration of the armed forces was one of Martelly's campaign goals but has met opposition from Western diplomats who say money would be better spent on the understaffed police force. The army was disbanded in 1995 because of its history of abuse. Martelly made the announcement Sunday in the...
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Rights report: Mexican feds tortured 5 suspects
01.01.2012 23:26 0 views 0 comments
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican human rights authorities say five men detained in the killings of two agents and a car-bomb attack in Ciudad Juarez were tortured by federal police to confess their roles in the crimes. The National Human Rights Commission said Sunday the country must investigate six federal officers and a doctor who didn't report signs of severe beating. Police had accused one man of being a lookout in a July 2010 car-bomb attack. They had also accused the five men of killing two police officers. Police have dropped the accusations, but the men remain in jail on drugs and weapons charges. Federal police said the men were members of the La Linea gang when they were arrested in...
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More Grenada police charged in Canadian's death
01.01.2012 23:26 2 views 0 comments
ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada (AP) — Three more police officers were charged with manslaughter in the beating death of a Canadian man who was visiting the eastern Caribbean country of Grenada, police commanders announced Sunday. A police statement said officers Edward Gibson, Shaun Ganness and Ruddy Felix were arrested and charged Sunday in the beating death of 39-year-old Oscar Bartholomew of Toronto, who was visiting the island about 100 miles north of Venezuela to visit family. Relatives have accused a group of officers of beating Bartholomew into a coma last Monday after he mistook a plainclothes female police officer for a friend and lifted her for a hug in front of a police station in the...
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Egypt's military rulers move to speed up elections
01.01.2012 20:29 0 views 0 comments
REUTERS - Egypt's army rulers issued a decree on Sunday to...
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Egypt's elections to wrap up sooner than expected
01.01.2012 20:29 0 views 0 comments
AFP - Egypt's military rulers decreed on Sunday that multi-phase elections for parliament's consultative upper house, the Shura, will be held over a shorter period, effectively speeding up steps towards drafting a new constitution. The elections, which had been due to take place...
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Chile says part of big forest fire contained
01.01.2012 20:24 0 views 0 comments
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Firefighters are making progress against a major blaze in one of Chile's most spectacular national parks, the government said Sunday, and the Israeli tourist accused of setting the fire denied guilt. Interior Minister Rodrigo Hinzpeter announced that light rain and diminished winds had helped emergency workers control three of the six areas of the fire at the Torres del Paine park, though the blaze has burned more 48 square miles (12,500 hectares) since starting Tuesday. A court on Saturday ordered Rotem Singer, a 23-year-old Israeli citizen, to remain in the region while he faces charges of negligently setting the blaze. Officials said he failed to completely...
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In pictures: Wildfire in Chile's Torres del Paine park
01.01.2012 16:53 0 views 0 comments
A huge wildfire has been raging uncontrollably for days in the Torres del Paine national park, in southern Chile - a popular tourist destination, which attracting more than 100,000 visitors a year. Hundreds of firefighters - with help from their counterparts across the border in...
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Argentine governor dies shots to head
01.01.2012 15:53 0 views 0 comments
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The ruling party governor of Argentina's prime oil-producing province was killed early Sunday of gunshots to the head, and his wife was being questioned by police. The gun fired as Rio Negro Gov. Carlos Soria and his wife Susana were in their bedroom after spending New Year's Eve at their home in General Roca, authorities said. Emergency personnel found him bleeding in bed and took him alive to the local hospital, where he was declared dead just before 5 a.m., local media reported. The governor's spokesman, Julian Goinhex, reported the death but gave no further details about what happened to the 62-year-old Soria, who won election by a wide margin in October...
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Argentine governor dies of shots to head
01.01.2012 15:53 0 views 0 comments
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The ruling party governor of Argentina's prime oil-producing province was killed early Sunday of gunshots to the head, and his wife was being questioned by police. The gun fired as Rio Negro Gov. Carlos Soria and his wife Susana were in their bedroom after spending New Year's Eve at their home in General Roca, authorities said. Emergency personnel found him bleeding in bed and took him alive to the local hospital, where he was declared dead just before 5 a.m., local media reported. The governor's spokesman, Julian Goinhex confirmed the death but gave no further details about what happened to the 62-year-old Soria. Soria led the province's Peronist Justicialist...
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Argentine governor dies of shot to head
01.01.2012 14:43 1 views 0 comments
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The spokesman for a southern Argentine state says its governor has died of a shot to the head. Julian Goinhex says Rio Negro Gov. Carlos Soria was celebrating the new year near the city of General Roca when he was killed. Goinhex gave no further details about what happened. The 62-year-old Soria was a member of the nation's governing party. (This version CORRECTS governor's age as 62.) on Twitter, become a fan on Editors' Picks Explore Related Content 1 - 4 of 12 Australian police say an 8-year-old girl has died from being accidentally shot in … Associated Press Argentine President Cristina Fernandez is cracking jokes and insisting she...
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Carlos Soria, governor of Argentina's Rio Negro
01.01.2012 14:43 0 views 0 comments
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Carlos Soria, governor of the southern Argentine province of Rio Negro, died Sunday of a shot to the head, according to the provincial spokesman. Soria, 62, had just taken office on Dec. 9. Spokesman Julian Goinhex said Soria was celebrating the new year when he died, but he gave no details about what occurred. Soria was born in 1949 to a fervent follower of leader Juan Peron who was twice imprisoned after the president was overthrown in a coup in 1955, according to his 2011 official campaign biography, and the son continued that heritage as a lifelong activist in Peronist political movements. The family eventually settled in the city of General Roca, where...
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2012 Medicare debate is all about the baby boomers
01.01.2012 10:59 0 views 0 comments
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Baby boomers take note: Medicare as your parents have known it is headed for big changes no matter who wins the White House in 2012. You may not like it, but you might have to accept it. Dial down the partisan rhetoric and surprising similarities emerge from competing policy prescriptions by President Barack Obama and leading Republicans such as Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan. Limit the overall growth of Medicare spending? It's in both approaches. Squeeze more money from upper-income retirees and some in the middle-class? Ditto. Raise the eligibility age? That too, if the deal is right. With more than 1.5 million baby boomers a year signing up for Medicare, the program's future...
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Opposition parties chart post-Assad transition
31.12.2011 21:13 0 views 0 comments
REUTERS - Two leading Syrian opposition parties have agreed a road map...
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Moscow riot police break up anti-Putin protest
31.12.2011 21:13 0 views 0 comments
AFP - Moscow riot police on Saturday arrested a dozen people, including radical opposition leader Eduard Limonov, who were trying to attend an unsanctioned New Year's Eve protest against the authorities. Several of those detained wore white...
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State of emergency imposed over sectarian attacks
31.12.2011 21:13 0 views 0 comments
REUTERS - President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency on Saturday in parts of northern Nigeria plagued by a violent Islamist insurgency, and said he would shut any borders with other nations in those areas covered by the decree. “I have ... declared a state of emergency...
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Peru president says annoyed by Berenson trip to NY
31.12.2011 19:35 1 views 0 comments
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru's president said Saturday that he is annoyed a judge granted a holiday trip to New York for a U.S. woman convicted of aiding guerrillas in the country. President Ollanta Humala told RPP radio that there is no guarantee Lori Berenson will return to Peru by the court-ordered deadline of Jan. 11. He called the judge's decision "totally strange." Berenson, who was arrested in 1995, had served 15 years in prison after her conviction of being an accomplice to terrorism. She was released on parole last year. Berenson has acknowledged helping the Tupac Amaru rebel group rent a safe house where authorities seized a cache of weapons after a shootout with the rebels. She insists...
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Mexico gang seen ramping up meth in Guatemala
31.12.2011 17:33 0 views 0 comments
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's powerful Sinaloa drug cartel appears to be extending its massive production of methamphetamine into neighboring Guatemala, as hundreds of tons of precursor chemicals stream into the Central American nation. While Mexico is usually estimated to be the main supplier of meth used in the United States, seizure data suggest that neighboring Guatemala could in fact be producing as much or more. That data, along with interviews with U.S. and Guatemalan officials, also indicate that Sinaloa cartel chief Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is taking advantage of Guatemala's remote, isolated mountains and an alliance with a key Guatemalan trafficker to make the Central American...
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Chile detains Israeli tourist in major forest fire
31.12.2011 17:33 0 views 0 comments
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chilean officials say they have detained an Israeli tourist suspected of causing a forest fire that has burned more than 42 square miles (11,000 hectares) in the Torres de Paine national park. Police say that 23-year-old Roter Singer has acknowledged a part in negligently allowing the fire to start. Hundreds of firefighters are fighting the blaze in far-southern Chile. Authorities evacuated 400 tourists, most of them foreigners. Officials say the fire is likely to continue spreading. on Twitter, become a fan on Editors' Picks Explore Related Content 1 - 4 of 12 Chilean President Sebastian Pinera says an out-of-control fire has already burned … Associated...
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Bomb blast at Colombia police station kills 2
31.12.2011 16:33 0 views 0 comments
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A bomb exploded at a police station in southern Colombia, killing the wife and son of a police officer and injuring at least six other people, the authorities said Saturday. The blast on Friday night killed the wife and 8-month-old son of the police captain in charge of the outpost in the town of Orito, about 540 kilometers (330 miles) southwest of Bogota, said Gen. Rodolfo Palomino of the National Police. Palomino said four police officers and two other people were injured. "One of them is the captain's other son, who is just 2 years old," Palomino told the Colombian radio station RCN. He said some of the injured were hospitalized in Bogota. Initial news reports had...
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As the campaign unreels, voters feel dispirited
31.12.2011 16:31 0 views 0 comments
A decade ago, customers flocked to the store in the converted fire station on the east side of Toledo, Ohio, in pursuit of Old Glory. Howard Pinkley established Flags Sales & Repair in 1960, and runs it with his daughter, Wendy Beallas. In days after Sept. 11, 2001, customers lined up outside the door. Americans wanted to show their pride, their determination, their Americanism. It's all a fading memory now. These days, folks are focused on paying bills. A new flag is a luxury, and the unvarnished patriotism of 10 years ago has been replaced by disgust with government. A recent Wednesday saw just two walk-in customers. Father and daughter have cut their payroll, but talk openly about whether...
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