All Americas
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Swine flu concerns rise in Southern Hemisphere
Several provinces in Argentina declared a health emergency Tuesday as the number of H1N1 cases continues to rise.
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International pressure builds to reinstate Honduran president
The UN General Assembly condemned the coup Tuesday, but analysts say any peaceful resolution to the crisis would need to give a hearing to all sides.
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Showdown looms in Honduras
Interim President Roberto Micheletti vows to have ousted President Manuel Zelaya arrested if he returns Thursday. Hondurans are concerned about foreign intervention.
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Obama could send 1,500 National Guard troops to Mexican border
If enacted, the plan would more than double the force at the border in an effort to staunch drug violence that has killed at least 11,000 in Mexico since 2006.
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Deposed Honduran president finds a platform at the UN
The US condemned the coup but finds itself defending a president allied with leftist critics such as UN General Assembly president d'Escoto and Venezuela's Chávez.
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Latin leaders unite against junta in Honduras
Leftists are urging Hondurans rise up against the coup leaders while conservatives denounce Sunday's ouster of President Zelaya.
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Leftist leaders hold emergency meeting over Honduras coup
Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega, and other leaders met in Nicaragua Sunday night to offer a response to the ouster of President Manuel Zelaya.
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Argentine voters deliver a sharp blow to the Kirchners
President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's Peronist Party lost power in both houses of Congress in Sunday's legislative elections. Her husband, former President Nestor Kirchner, lost in his bid for a congressional seat.
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Poverty tours travel a fine line
Does peeking at how the other five-sixths lives preserve culture – or commodify it?
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World condemns coup in Honduras
Venezuela's populist leader Hugo Chávez has put his armed forces on alert in response to Sunday's ouster of leftist President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras. 'We will bring them down,' Mr. Chávez said of the new military junta.
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Argentina vote: Referendum on the Kirchners
Voters say that candidates in Sunday's mid-term elections pay little attention to top concerns of jobs and crime.
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Coup in Honduras?
Soldiers arrested leftist President Manuel Zelaya Sunday as he planned to carry out a controversial referendum to extend presidential term limits, despite a Supreme Court ruling that the vote would be illegal.
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For Haitians deported from the US, an unlikely welcome-home committee
Haitian volunteers, including former criminal deportees, help new arrivals in a land many find hard to negotiate.
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In Argentine politics, all roads lead back to 'Evita'
The midterm election Sunday is being seen as a referendum on the populist policies of President Cristina Kirchner, whom the media often compare to Eva Perón.
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High stakes for the 'ruling couple' in Argentina's election
Former president Nestor Kirchner is running for a congressional seat in a bid to boost his sagging popularity, turning the election into a referendum on him and his wife, President Cristina Kirchner.
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Teenage sensation emerges on the race track
At 15, Gabby Chaves isn't old enough to have a driver's license. But he routinely wins formula race car events, reaching speeds of 150 m.p.h. Is he the next Mario Andretti?
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In Colombia, drug war targets 'narcosubs'
Traffickers have long run semi-submersibles up the Pacific coast to Mexico. New laws aim to crack down on the vessels' manufacture.
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Speed-walking school helps Colombian refugee children fit in with their Ecuadorian peers
The children train at Ecuador's famous Escuela de Marcha, a race-walking school that produced the country's only Olympic medalist, Jefferson Perez.
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Crossfire towns
Eye-to-eye across the US-Mexican border, two communities confront drugs, guns, and misconceptions.
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US shores up missile defense in Hawaii in response to N. Korea threat
The US deployed antimissile defense systems in response to reports that North Korea could launch a long-range missile toward the island early next month.
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