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Sat, 4 Sep 2010 20:17:35 GMT

Earl ends with a punch in Halifax, Canada

After toying with tens of millions of coastal residents and tourists along the East Coast, Earl finally made landfall Saturday morning — but in Canada's Nova Scotia province.

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Sat, 4 Sep 2010 03:51:25 GMT

Mexico arrests 6 in deadly Cancun bar blaze

Mexican police have arrested six suspects in a bar fire that killed eight in the resort city of Cancun.

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Sun, 5 Sep 2010 00:16:53 GMT

Salvadoran police find over $9M in cash in drums

Police in El Salvador have found two buried oil drums stuffed with millions of dollars in cash possibly linked to the illegal drug trade, authorities said Saturday.

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Sat, 4 Sep 2010 01:00:17 GMT

NASA advises Chile on trapped, isolated miners

A team of NASA doctors and engineers recommended Friday that Chilean authorities regulate the day-and-night sleep patterns of 33 trapped miners, boost their Vitamin D intake and phase in an exercise program as their nutrition improves.

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Fri, 3 Sep 2010 23:00:13 GMT

Mexican drug kingpin gets 27 years in Ariz. prison
A Mexican man who prosecutors say headed a major drug-smuggling ring that shipped tons of marijuana into the U.S. was sentenced Friday to 27 years in prison and ordered to forfeit $4 million to the American government.

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Fri, 3 Sep 2010 23:02:56 GMT

Amazon may be headed for another bad drought
Drought has cut Peru's Amazon River to its lowest level in 40 years and it is already below the minimum set in 2005, when a devastating dry spell damaged vast swaths of South American rainforest in the worst drought in decades.

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Fri, 3 Sep 2010 15:16:09 GMT

Castro dons uniform for first big speech in years

At 84 and having dusted off his military uniform, Fidel Castro on Friday addressed his first political rally since becoming ill and resigning as president in 2006.

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Sat, 4 Sep 2010 01:52:08 GMT

2 lawmakers among 6 dead in Mexico plane crash
A plane crash in southern Mexico killed all six people on board Friday, including two federal legislators and two mayors-elect.

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Fri, 3 Sep 2010 04:08:47 GMT

Mexican army kills 25 drug suspects near U.S. border

At least 25 drug suspects were killed Thursday in a gunfight with the Mexican army near the U.S. border, military sources said.

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Thu, 2 Sep 2010 20:56:45 GMT

Calderon: Violence price worth paying in drug war

President Felipe Calderon tried to rally frustrated Mexicans behind his increasingly bloody drug war Thursday, saying he knows violence has surged under his watch, but arguing that it is the price of confronting powerful and brutal cartels.

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