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Panama creates controversial intelligence force
PANAMA CITY, Panama -- Panama, which has no army, is creating a new intelligence agency and a border police force, prompting concerns of a return to its militarized past. (Updated 4:52 p.m. PT)
Actor Jean Reno released from Martinique hospital
FORT-DE-FRANCE, Martinique -- French actor Jean Reno has been released from a hospital in the Caribbean island of Martinique after falling ill. (Updated 1:11 p.m. PT)
USVI man sentenced to life for strangling of girl
CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands -- A judge has imposed a life sentence on a U.S. Virgin Islands man convicted of strangling a 12-year-old girl. (Updated 11:01 a.m. PT)
Mexico outraged over corrupt police, kidnappings
MEXICO CITY -- After kidnappers in police uniforms set up a fake checkpoint to snatch 14-year-old Fernando Marti off a Mexico City street, his businessman father paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in ransom, and waited for his son's safe return. (Updated 10:48 a.m. PT)
Paraguay's new president replaces military command
ASUNCION, Paraguay -- Paraguay's new president is replacing most of the country's top military leaders. (Updated 9:11 a.m. PT)
 | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2008 |
- Puerto Rico governor denies fraud, other charges
- Close ally of Colombia's president freed from jail
- Drug lord's extradition to US approved
- Mexico starts campaign to save endangered porpoise
| TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2008 |
- Argentina opens trial in deadly nightclub fire
- Mexico church assailed for maligning miniskirt
- Argentine priest on trial for sexual abuse
- Mexican army frees 25 kidnapped migrants
| MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 2008 |
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