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Venezuela sharply devalues its currency
Venezuela's government announced Friday that it is devaluing the country's currency, a long-anticipated change expected to push up prices in the heavily import-reliant economy.
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5 Mexico newspaper employees kidnapped, released
Five non-editorial employees of a newspaper in northern Mexico were kidnapped but released within a few hours, the company said in an editorial posted on its website Friday. It complained there is a lack of security for news workers in the violence-plagued region around the city of Torreon.
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Haitian schools expand use of Creole language
In a Feb. 6 story, The Associated Press portrayed the private Louverture Cleary School as emphasizing Haitian Creole. The school says it uses primarily Haitian Creole in an early education program for the community and then uses a curriculum that includes Creole, French, Spanish and English for ...
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China sentences man to 13 years, says he incited Tibetan monk to set himself on fire
A Chinese court on Friday sentenced a man to 13 years in prison for inciting an ethnic Tibetan monk to set himself on fire, the latest punishment meted out in a crackdown as Chinese authorities try to stop a string of self-immolation protests that has reached almost 100 incidents.
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Change of commanders in Afghanistan starts clock on end of U.S. war there
Inside the heavily secured headquarters of the NATO-led forces here, the man who could be the last commander of America’s longest war will officially take charge Sunday of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.
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Guatemala declares national coffee emergency
Guatemala's president has declared a national emergency over the spread of coffee rust, a fungus that is affecting 70 percent of the country's crop.
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Accused witch burned alive in Papua New Guinea
A mob stripped, tortured and bound a woman accused of witchcraft, then burned her alive in front of hundreds of horrified witnesses in a Papua New Guinea town, police said. It was the latest sorcery-related killing in this South Pacific island nation.
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Argentine Jews suspicious of deal on bombing probe
Argentine Jewish leaders are opposing a deal with Iran that President Cristina Fernandez sent to congress Friday for approval.
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Tunisia buries politician as crisis deepens
The funeral of an assassinated leftist politician drew hundreds of thousands of mourners chanting anti-government slogans to the Tunisian capital Friday - as well as gangs of armed youths who smashed cars and clashed with police just outside the cemetery.
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Rare Afghan fashion show seeks to empower women
Afghan models paraded down a candle-lined catwalk Friday as men and women watched from the audience in a restaurant off a muddy street in Kabul.
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