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Some
Habits Die Hard!
Despite changes to the bus stop in front of
Multiplaza this week, were 9 deaths have
occurred this year, there are those still
waiting on a bus to stop.
Westbound buses are now obligated to enter
the rotunda in front of the mall to drop off
and pick up passengers. Of the 25 buses that
passed by on Thursday afternoon between 3
and 4 pm, not one stopped.
[Foto:
insidecostarica.com]
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| NEWS |
updated by 8:00 a.m. CST each day
Poland Asks Costa Rica to Extradite Former
Nazi
Poland on Friday asked Costa Rica to arrest
and extradite a Ukrainian national who Polish
authorities accuse of killing dozens of Jews
while serving as a Nazi policeman in World War
II.
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Shannon Martin Murder Defendant Threatens
Witness
Luis Carrillo, on trial Shannon Martin's
murder, a University of Kansas student killed
in May 2001, was jailed this week for
allegedly threatening a witness.
>more
Sex
Tourist Gets 15 Years
James
Kirging, a tourist in Costa Rica, was
sentenced to 15 years in prison for having
sexual relations with minors. The sentence was
handed down by the tribunal courts in San
José.
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Space Tug
Besides taking people
to Mars, the plasma engine developed by Costa
Rica-born NASA astronaut Franklin Chang might have
another mission: powering a spacecraft designed to
tug asteroids away from an Earth orbit.
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Bomb explosion injures one in Colombia
One person was injured Friday morning during a
low-power bomb explosion in a commercial
center of Medellin, the second most important
Colombian city, said a police source.
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Venezuelan pro-government forces start
signature collection for recall vote
Supporters of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
started to collect signatures across the
country on Friday to seek recalls against 38
opposition legislators.
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SPECIAL
REPORTS: AMERICAS |
FTAA Goes 'Lite' But U.S. Still Trade
Heavyweight
The scaled down plan given the nod at
the end of a meeting here Thursday on a
proposed pan-American common market
marks a U.S. retreat on its ambitious
trade policies in the western hemisphere
but Washington's new aggressive push for
bilateral deals could be a greater
threat to the region's developing
countries.
Trade ministers from the 34 Americas
nations (minus Cuba) who assembled to
forge ahead with the Free Trade Area of
the Americas (FTAA) wrapped up talks one
day ahead of schedule with a far less
comprehensive draft agreement than
originally envisioned -- now dubbed
”FTAA lite”.
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