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Uribe rides high in Colombia
Sun, Jul 06, 2008 06:11 AM EDT
President Alvaro Uribe was master of ceremonies the night Colombian military intelligence agents disguised as humanitarian workers airlifted Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages to freedom.
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Tropical depression hovers near Mexico
Sun, Jul 06, 2008 05:54 AM EDT
The National Hurricane Center says a tropical depression is hovering hovered close to Mexico and threatens to strengthen into a tropical storm over the next day.
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US checks Mexico for source of salmonella outbreak
Sat, Jul 05, 2008 09:45 PM EDT
Inspectors are collecting soil, water and produce samples, reviewing export logs and combing packing plants in three major tomato-growing states in Mexico.
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Colombia army finds ton of explosives
Sat, Jul 05, 2008 09:36 PM EDT
Colombia's military says it has found more than a ton of explosives in a house in a rural area outside the capital.
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Uribe eases tensions with Venezuela
Sat, Jul 05, 2008 09:32 PM EDT
Colombian leader Alvaro Uribe pledged closer ties with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez on Saturday after months of on-and-off tensions, but Ecuador's leftist president said problems remain and he isn't ready to re-establish relations with Colombia.
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Rescue video shows duped rebels, elated hostages
Sat, Jul 05, 2008 08:47 PM EDT
Military intelligence agents posing as aid workers and a film crew flew to the jungle aboard a white helicopter, staging a mock humanitarian mission that rebels were told would ferry their hostages to another camp for talks on a prisoner swap.
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Freed hostage's Colombian fiancee travels to Texas
Sat, Jul 05, 2008 07:28 PM EDT
The Colombian fiancee of freed U.S. hostage Keith Stansell has traveled to meet him in Texas along with their 5-year-old twin boys, who will see their father for the first time.
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Argentine lawmakers back export taxes
Sat, Jul 05, 2008 01:14 PM EDT
Argentina's lower house of Congress on Saturday approved a package of grain-export taxes that have sparked nationwide farm protests and food shortages.
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Mexico sees anti-drug aid for police
Sat, Jul 05, 2008 01:50 AM EDT
Mexico's president says he plans to use the recently approved package of U.S. anti-drug aid to improve the country's police force.
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Argentine congress debates export tax
Sat, Jul 05, 2008 01:11 AM EDT
The Argentine Congress is debating on live television a proposal to increase grain-export taxes that has sparked farm strikes and food shortages across the country.