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Bob Barker Helps 25 Bolivian Lions Find a US Home

DENVER -- Twenty-five lions, most of them rescued from Bolivian circuses, arrived in Colorado on Wednesday to start their new lives at a wildlife sanctuary. The 14 males and 11 females landed at Denver International Airport around 4:30 p.m. The jetliner pulled into a maintenance hangar and police officers armed with...

UN Climate Talks: Not Perfect but a Step Forward

CANCUN, Mexico (Dec. 11) -- The United Nations annual climate change summit ended on a dramatic note of compromise, with more than 190 nations adopting a set of agreements that lay the groundwork for future negotiations. "The text is the best we can do right now and there is room to improve things next year," said Mohamed...

Chilly in Chile: South America Hit by Cold Snap

(Aug. 6) -- The U.S. might be experiencing a hot, hot summer, but south of the border, things couldn't be more different. Latin America's southernmost regions are shivering through the coldest winter in decades, which has left vast swaths of Argentina and Brazil with snow, and caused millions of freshwater fish to freeze...

Amazonian Indians More Advanced Than We Knew

(June 25) -- For decades, archaeologists thought of the Amazonian Indians as lowly hunter-gatherers who inhabited widely scattered villages and barely eked out a living in the harsh landscape. Now that image is collapsing. In a study to be published later this summer, scientists detail an ancient system of monumental...

Authorities: Bolivian Woman Sold Newborn for $140

(June 4) -- A Bolivian mother has been arrested after admitting that she sold her newborn baby girl for $140 to another woman who wasn't able to have children, investigators say. Police say that at first, the woman pretended that her baby had been kidnapped from the maternity ward in the central city of Cochabamba, where...

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06/01/12 US delegation at OAS assembly will reiterate... Source: MercoPress "As you know, the U.S. position has not changed. With respect to the Islands, that is an issue we should... that should be resolved between Argentina and England" saidActing Under Secretary for Press Affairs at the State Department Mike Hammer during an exchange with reporters on Twitter.
06/01/12 Bolivia seizes 249 mobile drug factor ... Source: The Sunday Independent Some 249 mobile drug production laboratories and two tons of cocaine have been seized in a major enforcement operation in eastern Bolivia, resulting in around 20 arrests, officials said on Friday.
06/01/12 Privatization - Bolivia - Santa Cruz civic committee... Source: Business News Americas - Chile Bolivia's Santa Cruz department civic committee has offered to serve as mediator between India's Jindal Steel & Power and the government to find a solution to reactivate the El MutÃºn iron and steel project, the committee's communications director, Hugo Salvatierra, told BNamericas.
06/01/12 Travel Agenda: Authentic Asia; Bolivia fast track;... Source: The Independent - London - UK A new website, TravelLocal.com, lets you design and book your trip using local guides and tour operators on the ground throughout Asia. Its founder, Huw Owen, claims this allows them to cut costs.
05/31/12 Bolivia: Senator's asylum bid embarrasses Morales Source: Sify Of those four governors, two now live in exile and one, Leopoldo Fernandez, has been in jail pending trial for more than three years, charged with instigating a crackdown in September 2008 that claimed the lives of nine indigenous Morales supporters.