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Chavez implicated in "suitcase scandal": U.S. witness (Reuters)

Reuters - A lawyer for a defendant in the Argentine "suitcase scandal" said a U.S. government witness has sworn that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was personally involved in the affair, according to a U.S. court filing.

Obama takes day off campaign trail in Chicago (AP)

AP - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama took a day off the campaign trail Sunday in Chicago, attending a neighborhood barbecue with his family.

McCain goes to church, visits VA hospital (AP)

AP - Republican presidential hopeful John McCain attended church Sunday and later visited a Veterans Affairs hospital in his hometown.

Election year sees surge in felons seeking to vote

Tennessee could double the number of felons who have their voting rights restored this year.

Angry flyer uses emergency slide to leave plane
Authorities in Guyana say a first-class airline passenger was so angry at seeing economy passengers leave a jetliner before him that he yanked open an emergency hatch and slid down the chute.

Neruda manuscript found in Chile
PM Santiago, Jul 6 (EFE).- A Chilean lawyer and collector revealed the existence of a short book manuscript that poet Pablo Neruda dedicated to Alicia Urrutia, the niece of his wife Matilde, in 1969. Nurieldin Hermosilla told El Mercurio newspaper that

Ingrid Betancourt, freed from six years of captivity in a Colombian jungle, plans to write a play about her experience that she said in an interview published Sunday will plumb the soul of the human condition.
Freed hostage to write play about her captivity Ingrid Betancourt says people must understand the human condition PARIS - 'People must understand,' she was quoted as saying in the weekly Le Journal du Dimanche. But she said she needs to show, not tell,

1,600-year-old tomb found in Peru
Lima: Archeologists have discovered the intact tomb of a pre-Incan leader who lived 1,600 years ago that could help solve mysteries about Peru's ancient Moche civilisation, the group's lead scientist said on Saturday. The tomb, called Huaca del Pueblo,

Colombia Under Siege
Colombia, the South American state, is in news following the dramatic rescue of kidnapped persons including Ingrid Betancourt, the French-Colombian politician, rescued after six years in captivity of the ?insurgent group? FARC. The showdown between

6:25am Chile urges Nobel for...
CHILEAN President Michelle Bachelet said she will lobby to have the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to newly-freed Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt. Ms Bachelet told La Nacion newspaper she will press 'vigorously' on behalf of Ms Betancourt's candidacy for

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First settled by the British in 1623, the islands became an associated state with full internal autonomy in 1967. The island of Anguilla rebelled and was allowed to secede in 1971. Saint Kitts and Nevis achieved independence in 1983. In 1998, a vote in Nevis on a referendum to separate from Saint Kitts fell short of the two-thirds majority needed. Nevis continues in its efforts to try and separate from Saint Kitts.

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