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Brazil won't extradite Italian former guerrilla
| Brasilia: Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is not thinking of extraditing Italian former guerrilla Cesare Battisti despite a Supreme Court ruling that he should be sent home, a high-ran...
(photo: Creative Commons / World Economic Forum) |
| Brazil Italy News Photos President |
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Gang 'killed people for their fat'
| Police say a gang in the Peruvian jungle has been killing people and draining fat from the corpses to sell on the black market for use in cosmetics. | Three suspects confessed to killing five people...
(photo: AP / Karel Navarro) |
| Crime Peru Photos Police |
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Google spywear will help vigilantes save rainforests
| Environmentalists across the world are to be enlisted as armchair detectives to monitor satellite images of rainforests and report any illegal logging. | The images will be frequently updated and an...
(photo: WN / theresa) |
| Business Environment Fund Photos UK |
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Colombia-Venezuela divide widens
| Colombia has accused Venezuela of blowing up two pedestrian bridges that link the countries. | Gabriel Silva, Colombia's defence minister, said uniformed men, allegedly from the Venezuelan army, ble...
(photo: AP / Fernando Llano) |
| Colombia Defence Photos Politics Venezuela |
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Brazil's New Standing Threatened by Ahmadinejad Visit
By JOHN LYONS | SÃO PAULO, Brazil -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's coming trip to Brazil is spurring criticism of the country in Washington, souring a budding U.S.-Brazilian relationshi...
(photo: AP / Hassan Ammar) |
| Brazil Iran Nuclear Photos Trade |
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'Fat for cosmetics' murder suspects arrested in Peru
| Four people have been arrested in Peru on suspicion of killing dozens of people in order to sell their fat and tissue for cosmetic uses in Europe. | The gang allegedly targeted people on remote road...
(photo: AP / Karel Navarro) |
| Cosmetics Crime Peru Photos Police |
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Del Potro moves within striking range of Murray
| If Juan Martin del Potro fails to reach the final of the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals at London's O2 Arena a week on Sunday it will at least give him a chance to catch up with friends. The 21-year...
(photo: AP / Mary Altaffer) |
| Argentina London Photos Tennis World |
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Uribe's Third Term
| A modern, democratic president with a 64% approval rating at the end of his second term has reason to be proud and wonder if he could win again. It's at precisely such a moment, however, when he sho...
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| Alvaro Uribe Colombia Democracy Photos Politics |
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Venezuela blows up two border bridges to Colombia
| SAN ANTONIO, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan soldiers on Thursday blew up two makeshift foot bridges that stretched across the border to Colombia in the latest incident to stoke a diplomatic disput...
(photo: AP / Dolores Ochoa) |
| Colombia Military Photos US Venezuela |
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The IMF continues to suffer from the pull of finance fetishism
| By Dani Rodrik | Commentary by | Friday, November 20, 2009 | - Powered by | Why does the International Monetary Fund make it so hard for people like me to love it? The IMF has said and done all...
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