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Heavy
Rains yesterday afternoon caused flash
floods in many areas. Hardest hit was San Rafael Arriba de Desamparados,
where at least six houses were totally
damaged and another fifty with serious
damage.
[Foto: Mario Castillo/La Nacion]
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updated by 7:00 a.m. CST each day
Taiwan
Rebuts Alleged Scandal in Financing Costa Rica
Election
The
Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) yesterday denied an accusation made last week by the second vice president of Costa Rica Luis Fishman, who claimed that the Taiwanese administrative department was involved in an election financing scandal related to President Abel Pacheco's campaign.
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Group
Blasts Taiwan for Shark Fishing Off Costa Rica
A Costa Rican environmental group denounced shark fishing by Taiwanese fishermen in the waters off the coast of the Central American country.
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Cuba will always be a target of the US, says minister
Cuban Vice Foreign Minister Fernando Remirez said Monday that Cuba will remain a target of the United States, because of its achievements since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959.
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Cuba denies US claims of links with bio-terrorism
Cuba denied on Monday a renewed US accusation that it has a limited biological arms program and denounced a new White House-led "subversive actions plan" against the Caribbean country.
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Bolivian president refuses to quit under opposition pressure
Bolivian President Gonzalo Sanchez
has said he will not leave office under the pressure of the opposition, according to reports from La Paz, the administrative capital of the Andean country, on Monday.
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24 countries back
Venezuela's proposal for FTAA fund
A total of 24 countries have expressed
support for Venezuela's proposal to create a fund in
the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) to cope
with adjustments in national economies, reports from
Port of Spain, capital of Trinidad and Tobago, said
on Monday.
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REPORTS: BRAZIL
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Church
presses for agricultural reform
The government still has not fulfilled
its election promises.
The Brazilian Catholic Church’s focus
on the land situation and demands for
agrarian reform in the country have
resulted in a deterioration of relations
between the Church and the
administration of President Luiz Inácio
da Silva (or "Lula", as he is
commonly known) of the Workers’ Party
(PT). >more
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RETIREMENT
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good Restaurant
I
feel really sorry for poor Henry David
Thorough. He was so completely satisfied
at that stupid Walden Pond in
Connecticut; he would have thought he
died and went to Heaven if he ever would
have had a chance to live here. I just
finished a GREAT BLT sandwich while
sitting out on my balcony. I counted 6
different butterflies visiting our
flowers. >more
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