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London clock tower Big Ben is partly lit during a major power failure
on the 28h of August. A power cut is reportedly causing major disruption through London and the South East late
last week.
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President
Pacheco
will not resign over alleged Taiwan finance
scandal
President
Abel Pacheco said he would not resign despite a
growing scandal over illegal contributions to
his 2002 election campaign, some which allegedly
originated in Taiwan.
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North American
Accused of Celebrating Mass Illegally
Tuesday,
representatives of Casa Alianza denounced before
the Ministerio Publico, North American, Alfredo
Prado, who has apparently been holding religious
celebrations illegally. >more
Cuba's
Libraries Founder Fights Castro From Afar
Ramon Colas has
a clear memory of the day when a few words from
Fidel Castro changed his life. Colas, long
an opponent of Cuba's revolution, recalled that
Castro was asked by a reporter in early 1998
whether there were any prohibited books on the
island. >Complete
Story
Blackout hits southern Mexico
A power outage left at least 3 million Mexicans in the southern Yucatan peninsular without electricity on Tuesday, the authorities said.
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Mexican president replaces two cabinet ministers
Mexican President Vicente Fox on Tuesday replaced Energy Minister Ernesto Martens and Environment Minister Victor Lichtinger in a move to build a "more efficient, sensible and committed government."
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Iranian attorneys in
Argentina to discuss Jewish center bombing case
Argentine Foreign Ministry officials met
Monday with a delegation of Iranian attorneys to
discuss the 1994 bombing that destroyed the Jewish
center in the Argentine capital, diplomatic sources
confirmed Tuesday. >more
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Indigenous
Reorganization
As
the Zapatista Army of National
Liberation (EZLN) approaches the tenth
anniversary of its historic Jan. 1,
1994, uprising, the largely Maya rebels
have declared dramatic changes in the
internal and external organization of
their civil forces.
In a series of nine communiqués
published between July 22 and Aug. 1,
the Zapatistas’ charismatic if elusive
spokesperson, Subcomandante Marcos, laid
out innovations designed to strengthen
the autonomous structure the EZLN is
building in the jungle and highlands of
southeastern Chiapas. The changes, which
come in defiance of Congress mutilation
in 2001 of an indigenous rights law
signed by the rebels and representatives
of then-President Ernesto Zedillo
(1994-2000) in 1996 that would have
granted limited autonomy to the
nation’s 57 distinct Indian peoples
(LP, May 28 and Aug. 6, 2001), involve
the restructuring of the autonomous
territories, now grouped together in the
Rebel Zapatista Autonomous
Municipalities (MAREZ). >more
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