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2 hrs ago | KVAL - News - Tech

Pro-Castro mob attacks spouse of top Cuban blogger

The husband of an acclaimed dissident Cuban blogger was punched and shouted down by a pro-government mob Friday after he challenged the presumed state agents who earlier roughed up his wife to a street corner debate.

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Related Topix: Blog News, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Cuba, World News, Barack Obama, Raul Castro

6 hrs ago | Caribbean Net News

Commentary: Commonwealth in danger: Action needed in Trinidad

By Sir Ronald Sanders As the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting is about to take place in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago's capital, there is not much hope among its member states that it will achieve anything more than declarations without the means to implement them.

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Related Topix: Trinidad and Tobago, World News

11 hrs ago | Monterey County Herald

20 years after UN pact, many children still suffer

This Nov. 13, 2009 photo shows Leonardo Sanchez, 12, holding a market sign that reads in Spanish "take advantage," as he works with family members in the La Merced market in Mexico City.

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Related Topix: World News, Mexico, Life, Food, Vegetables, Haiti,

16 hrs ago | Express

Website targets Caribbeana s a Most Wanteda

Crime Stoppers International launched the Caribbean's 'Most Wanted' website on Tuesday night.

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Related Topix: Trinidad and Tobago, World News

20 hrs ago | Boston.com

Family seeks court order for 2d autopsy

The family of a Lynnfield woman who was found hanged in her hotel room in the Virgin Islands earlier this month is asking the Massachusetts courts for permission to conduct a second autopsy, saying her death remains suspicious.

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Related Topix: Lynnfield, MA, World News, Virgin Islands

Thu Nov 19, 2009

Virgin Islands Daily News

Family, friends pay last respects to philanthropist Henry Kimelman

Charlotte Kimelman with well-wishers outside the St. Thomas Synagogue. Family and friends gathered at the St.

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Related Topix: Virgin Islands, World News, US Military, US Navy

CPJ Press Freedom Online

Obama responses stun Cuban blogger Yoani S nchez

Cuban blogger Yoani SA nchez was astounded this week by President Barack Obama's decision to respond a written questionnaire SA nchez submitted to the White House.

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Related Topix: Blog News, Cuba, World News

Inter Press Service

Q&A: Impact of Crisis in Latin America Less Severe than in the Past

GUATEMALA CITY, Nov 19 - Thanks to effective social policies and measures that have strengthened the economy, most of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean have managed to weather the impact of the global recession, although poverty has risen slightly for the first time since 2002.

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Related Topix: Dominican Republic, World News

National Post

Smoke On The Water

Shaken up doesn't begin to describe it. Ever since the Remembrance Day burning of Peter Nygard's paradisical home in The Bahamas -- his "nirvana resort," as it's been called -- the Canadian fashion tycoon, I hear, has felt a rare, humbling vex.

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Related Topix: Travel, World News, Bahamas Travel, The Bahamas, Fire, Canada, Opinion

Trinidad Guardian

Life and death struggle with Govt

President of the Joint Consultative Council, Winston Riley, left, presents the Building Contractor of the Year Award to John Connon, managing director of NH International Ltd, during Saturdaya s award function.

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Related Topix: Trinidad and Tobago, World News

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Examiner.com

November 18: Time zones established, 918 die in cult murder-suicide

Maine Fast Fact : In 1853, Maine bought the rest of the land within its boundaries that was still owned by Massachusetts.

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Related Topix: Massachusetts, Science / Technology, Space, Comedy, The Office, Entertainment, Television, Oscar Nunez, Metal, Metallica, Dominica, World News

TMZ.com

Miss Universe Contestants in Three-Way Sex Tape

Carrie who? Two former Miss Universe contestants are stealing the sex tape scandal spotlight, after a home video hit the web featuring Miss Japan 2008 and Miss Trinidad and Tobago 2008 engaged -- fully engaged -- in a hardcore three-way with some dude, reportedly a professional photographer.

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Related Topix: Trinidad and Tobago, World News

Boulder Weekly

Honduras' crisis brings election showdown to U.S.

Honduras' chief diplomat in Miami flips to page 117 of his nation's election manual and insists that his fellow countrymen living here must vote for their new president at the consulate in South Florida.

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Related Topix: Honduras, World News, Miami, FL, Manuel Zelaya

Palm Beach Post

New shipping line launches between S. Florida and Haiti

A new shipping line is launching in South Florida to serve Haiti, with the former director of the Port of Miami at the company's helm.

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Related Topix: Haiti, Miami, FL,

Independent Online

Students attack Nicaraguan legislature

Hundreds of students lobbed homemade bombs at Congress on Tuesday to protest government plans to cut university funding, as pro-and anti-government demonstrators prepared to square off at the weekend in Managua.

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Related Topix: Nicaragua, World News, Daniel Ortega

Tue Nov 17, 2009

Institutional Investor

Gulf Countries Are Not Havens, Says Lawyer

The member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council should be seen as onshore financial centres and not tax havens, a lawyer at a leading international firm has said.

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Related Topix: World News, Cayman Islands, Greater London County, England, United Kingdom,

Inside Costa Rica

Nicaragua Seizes Arms Cache From Mexico Drug Gang

Nicaraguan police have seized a large cache of weapons and explosives from suspected members of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel after a police car chase outside Managua, a spokeswoman said.

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Related Topix: Nicaragua, World News,

Virgin Islands Daily News

V.I. summer tourism statistics reveal expected slump

Daily News Photo by SEAN McCOY Charter yachts and cruise ships herald the start of tourist season after a summer of slumping arrivals.

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Related Topix: Virgin Islands, World News

Virgin Islands Daily News

V.I. gets grant to bury utility lines in downtown Charlotte Amalie

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has awarded the territory $1.6 million to begin burying power lines on Main Street in Charlotte Amalie - a move officials think could save millions in damages if a hurricane should strike.

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Related Topix: World News, Virgin Islands, FEMA, US News,

Inter Press Service

Central America: Gender-based Violence, the Hidden Face of Insecurity

Gender-based violence and sexual abuse are serious public security problems in Central America, and Nicaragua is no exception, according to reports by United Nations agencies and women's organisations.

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Related Topix: Nicaragua, World News,

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