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Jackets
and sweaters were the norm yesterday as strong
winds and clouds made for a very cold
afternoon in San Jose yesterday. The
weatherman says the cold weather will continue
into today and maybe into tomorrow.
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Women Celebrated "International Women's Day";
Two Women Found Murdered
Hundreds of women
celebrated 'International Women's Day' in San José's Parque Central;
...Ironically, two women were murdered on International Women's day; a young
lady of only 18 years of age was found on the roadside in
Carrizal de Alajuela and the other found dead in her bathtub
in San Joaquín de Flores.
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Car Theft Ring Broken Up
Police, yesterday, were able to break a band of car thieves with the
discovery of at least 8 vehicles in partial disassembly in a warehouse in
Orotina, Alaljuela, west of San José.
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Is It Cold, Anyone?
Anyone who lives in Costa Rica
can attest that the weather these past few weeks has been un-seasonal and
unpredictable.
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Government to Decide if it Will Pay Harken
This week, the government has
to make a decision on where it will pay or not the U.S. petroleum firm,
Harken Energy, when Costa Rica cancelled Harken's concession to explore the
Atlantic for oil.
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Online Betting Sites Fight Cyberextortion
Online gambling sites are
betting on tighter security after a recent wave of computer attacks from
cyberextortionists plunged several into darkness.
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American Arrested On Child Pornography
The police's special unit
that deal with the sexual exploitation of Minors - Explotación Sexual de Seguridad Pública
- report that they arrested over the weekend an American identified only as
Rishfield.
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Chile offers to mediate in Haitian conflict
The Chilean Vice Foreign
MinisterCristian Barros is to visit Jamaica Monday to meet Jamaican Prime
Minister Percival Patterson in a bid to help resolve Haiti's political
conflict.
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CARICOM refuses to contribute to multinational force
in Haiti
The Caribbean Community and
Common Market (CARICOM) refused to contribute to the multinational
peacekeeping force in Haiti, CARICOM's rotating president Jamaican Prime
Minister Percival Patterson announced Monday.
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Mexico's PRD leaders facing expulsion as video scandal
roils party
The leadership council of the
Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) will announce next weekend if
prominent party members will be expelled after a series of secretly-filmed
videos ignited a corruption scandal that continues to take its toll on the
party.
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