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National Briefing | Washington: Woman’s Asylum Case Sent Back to Review Board
data: 01.10.08
Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey canceled a stay in the case of a Guatemalan woman who sought asylum after she was battered by her husband in Guatemala.
 Cuba introduced a slight twist at the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday to its 17th annual resolution calling for an end to the American economic embargo.
 The United States stepped up the diplomatic skirmish with its left-wing adversaries in Latin America.
 The International Red Cross said that Colombia broke the Geneva Conventions by using the group’s emblem during the operation that freed Ingrid Betancourt and other hostages last month.
A coroner recommended in a report released Thursday that sales of semiautomatic, short-barreled rifles be banned in Canada.
 Farm leaders said they were prepared to renew blockades of major highways and cut off exports of grains if the measure was approved.
The recent battle between Argentina’s president and the country’s farmers has renewed old tensions between the provinces and the federal government.
A man who was convicted of a murder and rape 49 years ago that he did not commit will receive about $6.4 million in compensation, the Ontario government said.
 Silvia Raquenel Villanueva, Mexico’s most prominent “narco abogada,” or lawyer to the drug lords, continues to receive threats, which she deflects with prayer.
 Increasingly, the question confronting Bolivia is whether President Evo Morales can redress the indigenous majority’s historical grievances without causing national chaos.
Leftist Rafael Correa won easy approval of a new Constitution that enhances his power while introducing a range of other measures.
Mexico’s anthropology institute objects to imprinting one of Mexico’s treasures on soap opera star Irán Castillo’s body, deeming it a violation of the law.
 More than 100 people were injured when grenades tore through an Independence Day celebration in Felipe Calderón’s hometown.
The rapid disappearance of historic architecture in Trinidad is provoking a sometimes heated debate about the merits of historic preservation.
 A two-story school partly collapsed Wednesday in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital, injuring at least five students less than a week after the collapse of a school on the city’s outskirts.
 Fencing will slice through a San Diego park that has connected neighbors on either side of the U.S.-Mexico line.
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1. The Saturday Profile: Protecting Herself as Much as Her Drug Lord Clients
data: 15.11.08
Silvia Raquenel Villanueva, Mexico’s most prominent “narco abogada,” or lawyer to the drug lords, continues to receive threats, which she deflects with prayer.
2. World Briefing | The Americas: Venezuela: Chávez Sings on New Album
data: 15.11.08
President Hugo Chávez, who has been known to belt out Venezuelan folk songs during his frequent television appearances, has recorded an album.
3. 5 Die in Shootout at Mexican Jail
data: 15.11.08
There has been a wave of killings in Mexican jails over the past few months, as the battles between rival drug cartels carry over to prisons.
4. World Briefing | The Americas: Mexico: Bomb Ruled Out in Plane Crash
data: 15.11.08
Authorities investigating the cause of a plane crash that killed Mexico’s interior minister this week ruled out a bomb, officials said.
5. School on Haitian Hillside Collapses, Killing 30
data: 15.11.08
More children were believed to be buried in the rubble of the concrete building, and the death toll was likely to rise, said a civil defense official at the scene.
6. Getting Tough: Deported in a Coma, Saved Back in U.S.
data: 15.11.08
Antonio Torres’s case illustrates the haphazard way that the health care system handles uninsured immigrants.
7. Death Toll Rises to 92 in School Collapse in Haiti
data: 15.11.08
Officials said 700 children had been enrolled at a ramshackle school, but it was not known how many were inside when it caved in while class was in session.
8. National Briefing | South: Florida: Smuggling Charges Filed in Fatal Voyage
data: 15.11.08
A boat captain from the Dominican Republic has been charged with smuggling illegal immigrants after his vessel ran aground near Miami on Oct. 31, killing six people.
9. World Briefing | The Americas: Mexico: Interior Minister Is Named
data: 15.11.08
President Felipe Calderón appointed Fernando Francisco Gómez Mont, a lawyer and former lawmaker, as the new interior minister.
10. Rescuers, Finding No New Survivors, Will Raze Haiti School
data: 15.11.08
Rescuers at a collapsed school in Haiti were ending the hunt for survivors and will soon demolish the remains of the building, where about 90 people were killed.
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