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2009-01-06 20:58

Guatemala suspends landslide rescue, no survivors (Reuters)

Rescue personnel carry a victim of a landslide in San Cristobal Verapaz, January 5, 2009. (Oscar Caal/Reuters)Reuters - Threatened by rockfalls, rescue workers called off their search for bodies on Tuesday and gave up on finding anybody alive in the rubble of a landslide in northern Guatemala that killed at least 34 coffee workers.


2009-01-06 20:58

Turkey holds suspicious Iran-Venezuela shipment (AP)

AP - Turkey was holding a suspicious shipment bound for Venezuela from Iran because it contained lab equipment capable of producing explosives, a customs official said Tuesday.

2009-01-06 08:54

Guatemalans dig for bodies after landslide kills 34 (Reuters)

Rescue personnel carry the body of a landslide victim outside San Cristobal, Guatemala January 5, 2009.Rescue workers dug with shovels and their bare hands to recover bodies on Monday after at least 34 coffee workers were killed by a landslide as they walked along a road in northern Guatemala. The landslide, triggered by a geological fault, brought some 10,000 tonnes of rock crashing down in a sparsely populated area near the small indigenous town of San Cristobal Verapaz, around 124 miles (200 km) north of Guatemala City. (Daniel LeClair/Reuters)Reuters - Rescue workers dug with shovels and their bare hands to recover bodies on Monday after at least 34 coffee workers were killed by a landslide as they walked along a road in northern Guatemala.


2009-01-06 08:54

Hemingway's Cuba papers available electronically (AP)

AP - Cuba on Monday began accepting requests for electronic access to more than 3,000 documents from Ernest Hemingway's home on the island, including the unpublished epilogue of "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and coded messages the author sent when using his yacht to hunt for German submarines during World War II.

2009-01-06 08:54

Guatemalan mudslide kills 35, injures 15 (AP)

Rescue workers stand among bags holding the victims of a landslide at a cemetary in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009.  A massive landslide tore down the side of a mountain and buried a northern Guatemalan highway Sunday, killing at least 34 people and leaving rescue workers to dig for more victims Monday. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP - Rescuers dug through tons of mud late Monday in search of more victims of a massive landslide that buried a long stretch of highway in northern Guatemala, killing at least 35 coffee workers and travelers using the road.


2009-01-06 02:56

Chavez backs re-election for Venezuela politicians (Reuters)

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez gestures at a summit of leaders from Latin American and Caribbean nations in Costa do Sauipe December 17, 2008. (Paulo Whitaker/Reuters)Reuters - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Monday that a constitutional referendum proposed for February to lift limits on presidential re-election will also include a measure to end similar limits for governors and mayors.


2009-01-06 02:56

Guatemalan mudslide kills 34, injures 15 (AP)

In this photo released by the Guatemalan National Disaster Agency, CONRED, rescue workers watch a mudslide along a highway near the village of Aquil Grande, northern Guatemala, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. The landslide that hit Sunday Jan. 4 has left at least 22 people dead and 15 injured, officials said.(AP Photo/Guatemalan National Disaster Agency)AP - A massive landslide tore down the side of a mountain and buried a northern Guatemalan highway, killing at least 34 people and leaving rescue workers to dig for more victims Monday.


2009-01-06 02:56

Police: Mexican woman in wheelchair flees on foot (AP)

AP - Police say a woman who begged from a wheelchair was caught running from a crime scene on foot in Monterrey, Mexico. Police spokeswoman Sidlayin Robles says 30-year-old Ana Victoria Perez fled on foot after she and her husband allegedly threw a stone through the front window of a furniture store.

2009-01-05 20:56

Guatemalan mudslide kills 33, injures 15 (AP)

In this photo released by the Guatemalan National Disaster Agency, CONRED, rescue workers watch a mudslide along a highway near the village of Aquil Grande, northern Guatemala, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. The landslide that hit Sunday Jan. 4 has left at least 22 people dead and 15 injured, officials said.(AP Photo/Guatemalan National Disaster Agency)AP - Rescuers pulled 33 bodies Monday from a massive landslide that covered a northern Guatemala highway, and rescue workers continued digging for more victims.


2009-01-05 20:56

U.S. anti-kidnap expert's vanishing spins Mexico mystery (Reuters)

Reuters - The abduction of a U.S. anti-kidnap expert in northern Mexico last month remains a mystery with no clues to the man's whereabouts and no ransom demanded by his captors, police said on Monday.

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