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Government: 91 dead in El Salvador flooding
El Salvador's interior minister says the death toll is now 91 from floods and slides touched off by three days of heavy rains.
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Authorities report 91 deaths, 60 missing in floods, slides caused by rains in El Salvador.
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Brazil student expelled after wearing mini-dress
A Brazilian university expelled a woman who was heckled by hundreds of fellow students when she wore a short, pink dress to class, taking out newspaper ads Sunday to publicly accuse her of immorality.
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Chavez to troops: Prepare for war with Colombia
President Hugo Chavez ordered Venezuela's military on Sunday to prepare for a possible armed conflict with Colombia, saying the country's soldiers should be ready if the United States attempts to provoke a war between the South American neighbors.
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Press group: Latam governments moving in on press
Latin American governments are increasingly intervening in the news business, creating and favoring official media, regulating content and distribution and using other legal methods to silence their critics, a newspaper group said Sunday.
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Ida brushes past Mexico, watch issued for US coast
Hurricane Ida swiped the resort city of Cancun on Sunday with bands of wind and rain as it steamed north toward the Gulf of Mexico, where officials issued a hurricane watch for coastal Louisiana and Mississippi.
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AP interview: Pablo Escobar's son asks forgiveness
The son of the late notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar is back in the public eye 15 years after fleeing Colombia for a life of anonymity as an architect in Argentina.
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Mexican army makes large opium seizure
The Mexican army said Saturday it has seized a shipment of almost a quarter-ton of opium in the country's northern mountains, one of the largest such seizures made in Mexico.
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Ida hurricane watch for Mexico's Caribbean coast
Officials readied storm shelters along Mexico's Caribbean coast Saturday and told fishermen and tour operators to pull in their boats amid warnings that Tropical Storm Ida could become a hurricane as it neared the resort city of Cancun.
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TAM: Jet forced to return to JFK
TAM Airlines says one of its jets took off from New York's JFK airport but was forced to return 20 minutes into the flight because of a mechanical problem.