Argentina priests in drug protest

Hundreds of priests in Argentina have highlighted their concern after two of their number received death threats. Some 353 Catholic priests in Buenos Aires signed a document in support of the men, who work with addicts in some of the city's poorest neighbourhoods. The Church last month published a report...
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Mexico imposes swine flu measures

Mexico City has banned restaurants and cafes from serving all food except takeaways in a bid to help prevent the spread of the deadly swine flu virus. Schools across Mexico have closed and public gatherings are restricted, after more than 150 people are believed to have...
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Mexico flu 'a potential pandemic'

A new flu virus suspected of killing up to 60 people in Mexico has the potential to become a pandemic, the World Health Organization's chief says. Margaret Chan said the outbreak was a "serious situation" which needed to be followed closely. Ms Chan cut short a visit to the US and returned to Geneva for...
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Sex row Paraguay leader to stay

Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo says he will not resign over claims by three women that he fathered children with them while he was a Catholic priest. Mr Lugo said in a televised address that he would see his mandate through to 2013 regardless of "rumours of instability and...
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High court test for voting rights in Texas case

The community of Canyon Creek was ranchland rich with limestone and cedar trees when Jim Crow held sway in the South. The first house wasn't built until the late 1980s and not even a hint of discrimination attaches to this little slice in suburbia. President Barack Obama won more than 48 percent of the vote...
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Obama sees chance for Cuba, Venezuela dialogue

President Barack Obama says he sees the chance for frank dialogue with both Venezuela and Cuba. Obama already has lifted travel restrictions on Cuban-Americans to visit families on the communist island. And he had several opportunities to greet Hugo Chavez, the leftist leader of Venezuela, at the Summit of...
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Hamilton not upset by Dennis exit

Dennis and Hamilton have had a close working relationship for many years Lewis Hamilton has insisted that despite being surprised at the exit of McLaren mentor Ron Dennis from Formula 1, he was "not disappointed".BBC Dennis, who stepped down as team boss in January, handed...
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Obama, Chavez shake hands at Americas Summit

Presidents Barack Obama and Hugo Chavez have met for the first time, shaking hands as the Summit of the Americas gets under way in Trinidad and Tobago. Photos released by the Venezuelan government show the two smiling and Obama touching Chavez on the shoulder. The Venezuelan presidency says Obama initiated...
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Met suspends G20 footage officer

A police sergeant apparently seen in video footage hitting a woman during the G20 protest in London has been suspended, Scotland Yard has said. He is shown hitting the woman in the face with his hand and her leg with his baton after allegedly being sworn at. The sergeant...
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Teen says man was at pond where girl's body found

A police cadet said Friday that he saw someone "acting real strange" at an irrigation pond three days before an 8-year-old girl's body found in a suitcase pulled from the water. Stephen Memory, a 19-year-old who lives near the pond where Sandra Cantu's body was found, said he spoke to the FBI about what he...
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Brazil court orders jail, retrial in US nun death

A court on Tuesday ordered the arrest and retrial of an Amazon rancher acquitted of orchestrating the murder of American nun and rain forest activist Dorothy Stang. Para state's top court reversed last year's not-guilty verdict for Vitalmiro Moura on a technicality, ruling that a video used by the defense was...
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European investors await Bank of England

European stock markets rose only modestly Thursday despite earlier hefty gains in Asia _ which included a near 4 percent rally on Tokyo's Nikkei following details of a new stimulus package _ as investors remained cautious ahead of a Bank of England interest rate decision and the long Easter weekend. The FTSE...
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Top Mexican drug cartel suspect arrested, officials say

Mexican authorities arrested Vicente Carrillo Leyva, a leader of the Carrillo Fuentes drug cartel, officials announced Thursday. Carrillo Leyva was arrested as he exercised in a park in a residential area of Mexico City, where he had been living under the alias Alejandro Peralta...
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CNN: Obama pleased with NATO allies' pledges of Afghan support

STRASBOURG, France (CNN) -- President Obama hailed the NATO summit in Europe on Saturday, calling the meeting "very productive" and praising the alliance's commitment to the fight in Afghanistan.Today I'm confident that we took a substantial step forward to renewing our alliance...
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35 arrested in alleged Puerto Rico drug ring

FBI agents and police arrested at least 35 suspects Thursday in an alleged Puerto Rican drug trafficking ring blamed for seven murders, authorities said. The network operated out of a housing project in the southern coastal city of Guayama and sold heroin, cocaine and marijuana in cities across the U.S. Caribbean...
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