| Argentine commuter train crashes, killing 49 people
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 Reuters - A packed commuter train crashed at a Buenos Aires station during Wednesday's morning rush hour, killing 49 people and injuring more than 600 in Argentina's worst rail disaster in three decades.
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| Argentine train slams into station, killing 49
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AP - The first two cars were packed as usual for the morning rush, so tightly that people stood pressed flesh to flesh, sandwiched between bicycles and the few seats, many without so much as a strap to hold onto. |
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| Chavez surgery throws Venezuela into uncertainty
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 AP - President Hugo Chavez has never been one to share decision-making authority. Now, the voluble socialist strongman and acerbic critic of the U.S. may have no choice but to designate a successor.
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| EU report says Nicaragua vote lacked transparency
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AP - A European Union observer team says there were irregularities in Nicaragua's presidential elections in November. |
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| Chavez surgery rocks Venezuela ahead of election
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 Reuters - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's imminent departure for more cancer surgery in Cuba has thrown his re-election campaign into uncertainty and once again shaken the socialist leader's passionate supporters.
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| Inmates start fire inside Mexico prison
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AP - Inmates set fire to mattresses and trash Tuesday after officials announced that three prisoners would be moved from the prison where 44 gangs members were massacred this week to a maximum security jail in western Mexico. |
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| US team says Honduras prison fire was an accident
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 AP - U.S. investigators concluded Tuesday that the deadliest prison fire in a century was accidental, and may have been caused by a lit match, cigarette or some other open flame.
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| Jamaica gang feuds driving rise in murder rate
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AP - Jamaica is developing a new policy to battle crime as gang violence drives the homicide rate higher, the country's top security official said Tuesday. |
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| Cuban videos warn communists off corruption
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Reuters - Cuban President Raul Castro's full-court press on corruption has gone the local equivalent of viral, as videos with bribery confessions by foreign and Cuban businessmen make the rounds of the communist-run island's state companies. |
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| Wolf reintroduction in Mexico off to rocky start
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AP - The reintroduction of Mexican gray wolves to a mountain range just south of the U.S.-Mexico border as part of an effort to re-establish the endangered species is off to a rocky start. |
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| Chile says Peru border to reopen by late Wednesday
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AP - Chile's government says it will reopen the border with Peru by Wednesday night, following heavy rains that displaced land mines and floated some onto the Pan-American Highway. |
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| Guatemala judge steps down in ex-dictator's case
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 AP - A Guatemalan judge overseeing the genocide case of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt stepped down Tuesday, accepting a defense request.
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