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Canadian Government is 'Muzzling Its Scientists'

The Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is underway this weekend in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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More than 300 killed in Honduras prison fire

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — A fire started by an inmate tore through a severely overcrowded Honduran prison, burning and suffocating inmates in their locked cells and killing as many as 356 people in one of the world's deadliest prison fires in a century, authorities said Wednesday....
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Penn backs Argentina over islands

Hollywood actor Sean Penn is taking Argentina's side in the Falklands dispute...
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Peru: Leftist rebel leader captured wounded

February 13, 2012 — LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian troops captured on Sunday the wounded leader of a remnant of the once-powerful Shining Path rebel group, effectively dismantling a well-armed outlaw band that lived off the cocaine trade, President Ollanta Humala said....
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Stop trying to intimidate Falklanders, UK tells Argentina

Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague told Argentina to stop trying to intimidate the inhabitants of the Falklands, amid a war of words 30 years after the disputed islands sparked a real war....
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Brazil's Emerging Market: Crack

Hampered in the U.S., Drug Traffickers Find a Replacement; Skeletal 'Zombies' Rule São Paulo's Cracolândia After Dark...
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Haiti's Uncertain Future, 2 Years Later

Little progress and a lot of self-doubt remain in the first black republic after the earthquake....
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Venezuela's Chavez welcomes ally Ahmadinejad

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez dismissed a U.S. warning to avoid close ties with Iran on Sunday, denouncing what he said was Washington's attempt to dominate the world as he welcomed the Iranian president to the Latin American nation....
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Iranian president to tour US foes in Latin America

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, under increasing pressure from debilitating Western economic sanctions, Sunday begins a tour of Latin America aimed at shoring up ties with his few remaining allies....
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Argentine governor dies of shot to head

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The spokesman for a southern Argentine state says its governor has died of a shot to the head....
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