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MIAMI - For most of Alexis Arguello's life as a three-division world champion, "home" was a foreign concept.

Eds: APNewsNow. Will stand. AP Photo MNG108, MNG107 MANAGUA, Nicaragua Investigators have released new evidence that points to suicide in the death of Managua Mayor and boxing great Alexis Arguello.

President Ma Ying-jeou, left, applauds as Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli walks to give a speech during his inauguration in Panama City on Wednesday.

Alexis Arguello, who battled his way to three world boxing titles in the ring but lost several bouts with personal demons outside the ropes, was found dead early Wednesday at his home in Managua, Nicaragua.

In this Nov. 12, 1982 file photo, Alexis Arguello covers up as defending champ Aaron Pryor throws a hard right during the second round of boxing action at the Orange Bowl in Miami.Nearly three decades ago, a ferocious puncher and brilliant ring tactician waged one of boxing's epic brawls under the twinkling lights of the Orange Bowl in Miami, a ...

Managua, Nicaragua mayor Alexis Arguello as a candidate in November 2008. Photograph: Esteban Felix/AP The controversial Sandinista mayor of Managua, Alexis Arguello, a former world boxing champion, has been found dead at his home with a gunshot wound.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua - Managua Mayor Alexis Arguello, a three-time world boxing champion, has been found dead.Presidential spokeswoman Rosario Murillo confirms the death.His Sandinista party's Radio Ya says coroners are conducting an autopsy to determine the cause of death.Arguello once fought against the Sandinistas in the 1980s, but joined the ...

The presidents of nations of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas have met for an emergency meeting in the Nicaraguan capital of Managua.

By Tim Rogers Correspondent, CSMonitor Managua, Nicaragua - Facing what is perhaps the greatest challenge to regional stability since the end of the Central American wars more than a decade ago, the presidents of this tiny yet tumultuous isthmus are scheduled to meet in Managua Monday afternoon to round the wagons in defense of Honduras's recently ...

San Jose, Jun 28 President of Honduras Manuel Zelaya confirmed he is in Costa Rica, as he was kidnapped by Honduran military officers, who dragged him from his residence.

Managua, Jun 26 The Second ALBA-Education Workshop, taking place in the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua, is to be closed Friday with the proclamation of the country''s southern department of Granada as free of illiteracy.

Express kidnappings have increased in the past year, with incidents involving Americans in several cities.

C offee shops are certainly not new to Central Florida, but great independent ones are difficult to find.

By Jose Adan Silva MANAGUA - "Don't worry, your job will be here when you come back," Lorena Castillo's supervisor reassured her when she asked to take a day off for a gynaecologist appointment.

Six miners suffocated and five others were rescued alive following a gasoline spill inside a tunnel in Cerro Potosi, a mining area in Nicaragua's Caribe Norte region, an emergency management office spokesman said.

The coordinator of the Sandinista Renewal Movement, or MRS, Edmundo Jarquin, denounced on Saturday the cancelation of the frequency of Radio La Ley, a station in the interior owned by an opposition commentator, a measure he calls 'an outrage.' Nicaragua's telecommunications and postal institute TELCOR, according to an article in the daily La ...

On June 20, 1979, international correspondent Bill Stewart was shot and killed by Nicaraguan government forces as he was reporting from Managua.

A documentary on Nicaraguan banana workers who claimed they became sterile from pesticides is set for its American premiere on Saturday _ unless a threatened lawsuit stops the show.

An American who spent 13 months in a Nicaraguan prison before he was cleared of murder says prosecutors in that Central American nation are trying to reinstate his conviction in violation of his human rights.

Managua .- In response to Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's recent 'invitation to pray' and to refrain from giving opinions on political issues, the bishops of Nicaragua reminded that justice requires action and not just prayer.