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SATURDAY
20
NOVEMBER 2004
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6.2 Quake Shakes Costa
Rica
A strong earthquake shook Costa
Rica early Saturday morning, causing power outages and
material damage. There were no immediate report of
casualties, however, three persons suffered heart attack,
dying in hospital and one death in a traffic accident.
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Ibero-American
Summit Lacks Star Power
Despite the absence of many of
the region's key leaders, the two-day Ibero-American Summit
of Spain, Portugal and Latin American heads of state kicked
off Friday with talks expected, at least publicly, to focus
on education.
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Street
Vendors Can Stay Until January
In a show of compassion, listing
to the cries of the Street Vendors, San José Municipal
Mayor, Johnny Araya, announced that the removal of the
street vendors won't occur until January.
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Cuba,
Panama resume consular ties
Cuba and Panama took the first
step Friday to resume their
diplomatic relations that were
suspended in August after the
then Panamanian President Mireya
Moscoso pardoned four
Cuba-Americans accused of trying
to kill Cuban leader Fidel
Castro.
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UN urges
hostage release in Colombia
The office of the United Nations
Human Rights Commission in
Colombia Friday urged the
Colombian government to speed up
proposals leading to the release
of hostages kept by guerrilla
forces.
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Venezuelan
govt condemns assassination of
prosecutor
The Venezuelan government Friday
described as "brutal act of
terrorism" an explosion that
killed a state prosecutor who is
leading a probe into backers of
Venezuela's coup in 2002.
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BRAZIL:
Indians'
Genetic Material Sold on
Internet
The Brazilian government has
asked Interpol, the
international police, to
intervene in what it says is the
illegal sale of genetic material
from its indigenous peoples by a
U.S. research centre.
Living cells from individual
members of Karitiana and Suruí
Indians, as well as other South
and Central American indigenous
groups, are available for 85
dollars, purchased through the
Internet from the Coriell Cell
Repositories, a division of
Coriell Institute for Medical
Research.
The cells are intended to be
used for research purposes only,
says the independent,
not-for-profit, biomedical
research institute, based in the
northeastern U.S. city of
Camden, New Jersey.
Mercio Pereira, president of
Brazil's National Indigenous
Peoples Foundation (FUNAI),
asked the federal police to
investigate the matter in
October.
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