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+ Earth's highest microbial life found around volcanic vents in Atacama Desert + Washington, June 20 : A team of scientists has found that the highest microbial life on Earth appears to be in South America, around ...

+ Gunfire disrupts funeral in Haiti + Port-au-Prince.– Gunfire broke out during a funeral procession Thursday for a popular Haitian priest, killing a man and ...

+ Season's first tropical depression moving to Mexico + The National Hurricane Center in Miami said the depression was centered about 245 miles (395 kilometers) south of the coastal city of ...

+ Report on arms smuggling to Mexico called incomplete + Reporting from Washington -- A government audit of U.S. efforts to stop arms trafficking to Mexico was criticized Friday by a ...

+ Covina lawyer accused of aiding 18th Street gang is denied bail + Isaac Guillen, who allegedly worked as a middleman between the gang and the Mexican Mafia, is portrayed by prosecutors as a danger to ...

+ Sotomayor resigns from women's club + Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor resigned Friday from an elite women's club after Republicans questioned her participation in it. ...

+ Immigration reform to get a quiet kickoff + Reporting from Washington -- Lawmakers will gather at the White House next week for a working session on immigration reform, a meeting ...

+ Peru Indians hail 'historic' day + Indigenous groups in Peru have called off protests after two land laws which led to deadly fighting were revoked.Hailing victory, ...

+ Colombia coca crop is down + Bogota -- Colombia's coca crop shrank by nearly 20% last year while cultivation rose for a third straight year in Peru and Bolivia, ...

+ Mexican gunmen attack ambulance, kill patient + MORELIA, Mexico — Gunmen tossed a grenade at an ambulance and then opened its doors to kill a patient inside who had ...

+ Cuba builds biogas plants as new energy sources + HAVANA, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Cuba has built some 700 biogas plants as new energy sources to develop an efficient and sustainable energy ...

+ Mexico presses drug charges against 7 mayors, 20 officials + MEXICO CITY -- Mexico levied organized crime and drug charges Thursday against seven mayors, the former state attorney general and 19 ...

+ U.S. aid cut to Nicaragua hurts + MANAGUA, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Since the United States decided last week to cut its aid for Nicaragua, leaders and government of the ...

+ Case appears closed on 'Cuban Five' + Demonstrators in Havana hold posters of the "Cuban Five,' intelligence agents who the U.S. convicted of spying. Their defenders, ...

+ Brazil launches Amazon forest protection program + BRASILIA, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva launched a program on Friday to regulate land ownership ...

+ Snow storm strands hundreds of drivers on Argentina-Chile border + A snow storm fanned by high wind stranded some 700 trucks along the border area between Argentina and Chile on Friday. In the ...

+ Argentina reports its 7th death from swine flu + (AP) — BUENOS AIRES - Argentina's health authorities has confirmed a new death from swine flu, raising the country's total to seven. ...

+ Mexican Drug Fugitive Arrested in Ohio + COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Federal immigration officials say they've arrested a Mexican fugitive who is nicknamed the Ghost and is accused of ...

+ Chilean to head UN's Bhutto assassination inquiry + Chile's UN Ambassador Heraldo Munoz will head a six-month UN inquiry into the 2007 assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister ...

+ U.S. dad can visit son, but only in Brazil + Brazilian court: David Goldman can have unsupervised visits with son, but in Brazil Goldman's former wife left for Brazil with son, ...

+ Swine flu continues march in Latin America + Countries across Latin America reported more swine flu cases on Friday, more than a month after the outbreak first became known. In ...

+ Brazil pardons peasant revolutionaries + SAO DOMINGOS, Brazil: Seeking to redress one of the darkest chapters of its dictatorship era, Brazil yesterday amnestied dozens of ...

+ Inequity of Haitian refugees in Mexico + Mexico is considered to have one of the most open refugee policies and as a result it has become a popular destination for many ...

+ UNHCR Concerned About Arbitrary Arrests in Iran + The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, said she is concerned over the possible illegal use of excessive force and ...

+ US Acknowledges Role in Afghan Civilian Deaths + In the long-awaited official report on the deaths of dozens of Afghan civilians during U.S. airstrikes in western Afghanistan last ...

+ Iraqi FM Confident About Security After US Withdrawal + Iraq's foreign minister says he is confident his nation will be capable of taking over security after U.S. forces pull out of Iraqi ...

+ Study Finds Shocking Incidence of Rape in South Africa + More than a quarter of men surveyed in a study in South Africa said they had committed rape. Nearly half the respondents said they had ...

+ Nigerian Militants Claim Another Pipeline Strike + Nigeria's most powerful armed group says it destroyed another pipeline Friday, the latest in its campaign of sabotage against the oil ...

+ Aung San Suu Kyi Celebrates Birthday Behind Bars + Campaigners across the globe are honoring the birthday Friday of Burma's detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The Burmese ...

+ US Congress Condemns Violence Against Demonstrators in Iran + The U.S. Congress has condemned the Iranian government's crackdown on demonstrators protesting the result of the recent election. The ...

+ EU Leaders, US Lawmakers Raise Concern over Iranian Crackdown + U.S. lawmakers have passed a resolution condemning the crackdown on Iranian demonstrators and the curbs on news media and ...

+ WFP Warns Taliban in Pakistan Targets International Aid Groups + A World Food Program official warns that international aid agencies have become a target of the Taliban in Pakistan, as seen by the ...

+ Doctors Urge Use of Diabetes Blood Test + The World Health Organization estimates that at least 180 million people around the globe have diabetes. It says the number could ...

+ Air France to Compensate Families of Crash Victims + Air France has announced it will begin compensating families of the victims of its airline that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean this ...

+ Iranian Opposition Planning New Rally Saturday + Supporters of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi are planning another mass rally Saturday, a day after Iran's ...

+ Cuba announces two new cases of influenza A H1N1 virus + HAVANA, Cuba (ACN) -- An official note published on Friday by the Granma and Juventud Rebelde newspapers announced that the ...

+ Belize prepares to export cattle to Mexico + BELMOPAN, Belize -- Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries has approved that the entire national cattle herd be tested for tuberculosis ...

+ Corporate Guyana on board for CARICOM 10K run + GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Some of the leading businesses in Guyana have thrown their full support behind the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) ...

+ Poll Finds Only 6 Percent of Israelis See Obama as Pro-Israel + After years of good relations between the United States and Israel, Israelis see a negative trend under the Obama administration. Many ...

+ Battle of Wills Firms Up in Iran + Reva Bhalla, Iran affairs analyst for the private intelligence firm Stratfor, says that in doing so, Khamenei is placing the president ...

+ UN Confirms ‘Systematic’ Killings of Civilians by Soldiers + BOGOTA, Jun 19 (IPS) - Philip Alston, the U.N. rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, said this practice is "systematic" in Colombia. ...

+ Niger Plans Parliamentary Vote for August 20 + Niger's electoral commission has set a parliamentary vote for August 20, after the president dissolved the national assembly in a ...

+ Rights Group Fears Forced Return of Refugees by Uganda, Tanzania + Camps for Burundian refugees in Tanzania and for Rwandan refugees in Uganda are scheduled to close in the coming month. The ...

+ Pakistani Warplanes, Troops Target S. Waziristan + Pakistan is sending troops and warplanes into the volatile South Waziristan region, the first steps in a new offensive targeting ...

+ Puerto Rico targets six public-private deals in 2009 + SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) -- The Puerto Rico government will soon activate a new Public Private Partnership Authority and aims ...

+ B2Gold, AngloGold May Start Building Colombia Gold Mine In '13 + to carry out the feasibility studies and would be ready to start building a mine in 2013 to develop the gold reserves of Gramalote, ...

+ Brazil reports 17 new cases of A/H1N1 flu + RIO DE JANEIRO, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's Health Ministry Friday reported 17 new cases of A/H1N1 flu, raising the total number in ...

+ Bank of China in pact to expand infrastructure, trade finance in Latin America + The Bank of China (BOC), the nation's third-largest bank by market value, will expand services in Latin America through a new deal ...

+ BBC Caribbean News in Brief + The ship returned to Aruba on Thursday night from Venezuela after it was denied entry to several Caribbean ports including Barbados ...

+ Puerto Rican pageant fires petite beauty queen + By DANICA COTOASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- The Miss Puerto Rico Petite competition stripped the reigning queen of ...