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Downtown San Jose season festivities continue with
choir music and songs. Each night this week,
different choir groups have taken the centre stage
in front of the Teatro Nacional to perform.
[Foto: insidecostarica.com]
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| NEWS |
updated by 8:00 a.m. CST each day
Man Target of
Child Adoption Inquiry
A man
associated with a Coral Springs, Florida,
adoption agency is wanted by authorities in
Costa Rica for trafficking in minors,
according to the judge who issued the warrant.
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$120 Million
Phone Deal
The
Costa Rican Power and Telecommunications
Institution (ICE) will purchase a new mobile
phone network, consisting in 600,000 lines,
from Swedish firm Ericsson.
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November
Inflation
Propelled by an increase in the power bill and
in the prices of milk and eggs, inflation
reached 1.42 percent in November, and became
the largest monthly increase in the last 12
months.
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Two Dutch
Tourists Drowned
A small
boat capsized at the mouth of the Matina
River, in the Costa Rican Caribbean, and two
Dutch tourists drowned, while two others
survived.
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US extends
anti-terrorism program to border with Mexico
The US Department of
Homeland Security on Thursday extended to the
US-Mexico border a key Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) program to counter terrorism
and facilitate trade.
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Flu spreads across
US, at least 11 kids dead
Tissues are disappearing
so rapidly from teacher Irma Natoli's desk
that she's resorted to handing out paper
towels to sniffling seventh- and
eighth-graders struggling with flu symptoms.
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Annan-named high-level
group to meet on UN reforms
A high-level group of
eminent persons, named by United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan recently, will
meet for the first time outside New York this
week to review threats to world peace and
security and explore ways of reforming the
world body.
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SPECIAL
REPORTS:
COLOMBIA |
Colombia: Torture on the rise.
New Amnesty International report on
human rights violations.
In a new report on torture in Colombia,
Amnesty International renews its call on
the Colombian government to strengthen
its efforts to combat this horrendous
practice and to end impunity.
The report is being launched when the
United Nations Committee Against Torture
is presenting its concluding
observations regarding the situation of
torture in Colombia.
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SPECIAL
REPORTS:
SOUTH AMERICA |
Resurrection of the Great Inca Road
From
May to December 1999, Ricardo Espinosa
made a 3,000-km journey on foot between
Quito and La Paz, head of an expedition
of Ecuadorian, Peruvian and Bolivian
archaeologists who followed the
monumental road built by the Incas some
500 years ago.
The enthusiasm of the people involved in
the trek was the impulse behind a plan
to restore the 8,500-km network of
roads. This unique conservation project
will involve six South American
countries in putting the Great Inca
Route back in operation.
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