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More Rain on
the Way; Yellow Alert!
The National Commission for Emergencies has
called a "yellow" alert for the
coming weeks in expectation of heavy rains. >more
Developing Nations Trade Bloc Tries to Close Ranks
The foreign ministers of several developing nations met on Friday to try to hold together a trade bloc that has challenged the United States and Europe on farm subsidies.
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Columbus 'sparked a genocide'
Venezuela's populist leader has urged Latin Americans to boycott celebrations for the anniversary of the "discovery" of the Americas by Christopher Columbus.
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Mayoral candidate murdered in Colombia
Jairo Gomez, a Colombian mayoral candidate who was kidnapped on Friday, was found dead Saturday in the Quindio department, in the western part of the country, police said.
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Road accident kills 40 in Peru
An inter-provincial route bus fell into a 300-meter abyss in the central Peruvian jungle region, killing at least 40 people, the National Police of Peru said Saturday morning.
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Over 1,000 desert
L.A. Times over Schwarzenegger coverage
More than 1,000 readers have canceled
their subscriptions to the Los Angles Times to
protest its biased reporting of the campaign by
California's governor-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger,
the newspaper said Friday.
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SPECIAL
REPORTS
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Fortress
America's Chilly Hello
As
the US tightens its borders and starts
denying visas in record numbers, many
travelers are saying `Why even bother
going at all?'
Four times a week a Japan Airlines 747
from Sao Paulo, Brazil, lands in New
York City on the way to Tokyo, but since
August the planes have each been
carrying 100 fewer passengers because of
hastily imposed new rules, introduced in
early August, to deal with threats from
al-Qaeda and other terrorist
organizations.
For many foreign travelers, a visa is
now required to change planes in the US
while traveling between most countries,
a rule affecting 47 airports. >more
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