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• Samsung launches six music earphones in South Korea

  
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    Samsung today dropped six earphones to please the music aficionados in South Korea. The EP380 and EP340 are the entry-level products that promise to give unmatched quality at a very affordable price. In addition to the music quality, the EP380 comes in stylish body design with choice different of colors. The EC410 ...
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• Amnesty International denounces abuses by Mexican army

  
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  Mexico City, Dec 10 (EFE) Amnesty International (AI) says that in the past two years there has been an increase in human rights abuses by Mexican military personnel assigned to law enforcement activities, including torture and extrajudicial executions.AI spokesman Alberto Herrera presented here a report containing ...
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• $10.5 bn needed to guarantee drinking water: Brazilian agency

  
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  Brasilia, Dec 10 (EFE) Brazil must invest some $10.5 billion in production and distribution systems for potable water by the year 2015 to guarantee this service to its population, a government agency has reported.The Urban Water Supply Atlas Wednesday said that “potential problems” exist in 2,965 of the ...
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• Cuba ready for `respectful’ dialogue with US

  
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  Tokyo, Dec 9 (EFE) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez has said his government was ready for a “respectful” dialogue with the US and noted that there was “less tension” and “less rhetoric against Cuba” since President Barack Obama took power.There is no change in US policy, however, because the economic ...
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• Al Qaeda claims it kidnapped Spanish aid workers

  
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  Madrid, Dec 9 (EFE) In an audio tape sent to the Al Jazeera channel, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, has claimed responsibility for last month’s kidnapping of three Spanish aid workers in Mauritania.“Two units of the valiant mujahideen managed to kidnap four Europeans in two distinct operations: the ...
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• Brazilian thieves use tunnel to steal $5.7 million

  
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  Sao Paulo, Dec 8 (EFE) Thieves stole 10 million reais ($5.7 million) from an armoured-car company here in Brazil’s largest city using a tunnel they dug over the course of four months, the police said.The theft was carried out Sunday afternoon and so far police have not made any arrests, the police told reporters.The ...
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• Mexico City erects world’s largest Christmas tree

  
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  Mexico City, Dec 7 (EFE) Mexico City has been certified by Guinness World Records as having the world’s largest Christmas tree.The tree stands 110.35 meters high, has a diameter of 35 meters and weighs 330 tonnes.The new record exceeds by 24 centimeters the Christmas tree in Aracaju, Brazil, the city that had held ...
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• 1.8 tonnes of cocaine seized in Venezuela

  
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  Caracas, Dec 7 (EFE) Venezuelan authorities seized 1.8 tonnes of cocaine hidden in two containers bound for Spain, Interior Minister Tarek El Aissami said Sunday.The shipment was detected Saturday by National Guard members and officials at the Port of La Guaira, the country’s main customs station, located about 20 ...
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• ‘Google disabling applications for Cuban users’

  
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  Havana, Dec 4 (EFE) Cuba’s official Juventud Rebelde newspaper has criticised Google for blocking access to certain applications, including the Zeitgeist search trends tool, for users on the island.“Even though Google has a domain for Cuba (.cu), Zeitgeist appears to bypass the Caribbean archipelago in offering ...
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• Gunmen attack children’s shelter in Mexico, one killed

  
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  Oaxaca (Mexico), Dec 3 (EFE) Unidentified gunmen opened fire on a children’s shelter in a Mexican town, killing a boy and wounding three other children, officials said.The attack on San Juan Copala, where Triqui Indians live, occurred last Saturday, when “a group of armed people attacked the children’s ...
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• Ecuador feels `ill-treated’ in loan talks with China

  
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  Quito, Dec 2 (EFE) Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has said that during the course of negotiations with China to obtain financing for a hydroelectric dam, they “sometimes feel ill-treated”.Ecuador is negotiating with China for a loan to finance 85 percent the Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric dam but Correa ...
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• Argentine model dies after cosmetic surgery

  
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  Buenos Aires, Dec 1 (EFE) Model Solange Magnano, a former Miss Argentina, died of a pulmonary embolism after undergoing cosmetic surgery in Buenos Aires, a media report said.Magnano, 38, travelled Thursday from her home in the central province of Cordoba to the Argentine capital to have a cosmetic operation.While she ...
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• Seven rebels killed in bombing raid in Colombia

  
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  Bogota, Nov 29 (EFE) At least seven rebels were killed Saturday in the bombing of a rebel camp by the military in the jungles of the southeastern province of Guaviare, officials said.The insurgent base, located in a rural area near the town of Calamar, belonged to the First Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of ...
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• Brazil to spend $3.4 bn for amphibious armoured vehicles

  
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  Sao Paulo, Nov 28 (EFE) President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has authorised spending six billion reais ($3.43 billion) to finance construction of 2,285 amphibious armoured vehicles for the Brazilian army, officials said.Defence Minister Nelson Jobim said the new vehicle, the Guarani, will be built by Brazil in ...
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• Auto production rises in Spain

  
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  Madrid, Nov 27 (EFE) Production at automotive plants in Spain rose 5.7 percent last month, compared to October 2008, the National Automobile Manufacturers Association, or Anfac, said.Output during the month totalled 218,721 units, with private passenger vehicles accounting for 184,119 units, up 16.7 percent from ...
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• Brazil’s unemployment falls to 7.5 percent

  
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  Rio de Janeiro, Nov 27 (EFE) Brazil’s unemployment rate fell to 7.5 percent in October, the lowest level of the year, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, or IBGE, said.The September unemployment rate, which was also down, had been 7.7 percent, the IBGE said Thursday.The lowest unemployment rate in ...
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• More like Che needed to fight injustice: Aleida Guevara

  
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  Algiers, Nov 27 (EFE) Aleida Guevara, the eldest daughter of legendary Cuban-Argentine guerrilla Ernesto “Che” Guevara, said that the world needs “many (like) Che” to fight the injustices against which her father fought and from which human beings still suffer “to an even greater extent”.Aleida, who is on ...
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• Honduran Supreme Court, TV station hit by blasts

  
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  Tegucigalpa, Nov 26 (EFE) Honduras’ Supreme Court’s building and Channel 10 television station’s office in Tegucigalpa were hit by blasts, but no one was injured, police said.A rocket-propelled grenade was fired at the court’s building, police spokesman Orlin Cerrato told reporters.The grenade caused “minor ...
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• Chavez says Latin America faces US threat

  
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  Caracas, Nov 23 (EFE) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said the conciliatory discourse of his US counterpart, Barack Obama, has been just “a big story” and that an “imperial counterattack” is under way against Latin American development.“And Venezuela is the No.1 target on the imperial map on this ...
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• Mexico’s economy contracts 6.2 percent in third quarter

  
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  Mexico City, Nov 22 (EFE) Mexico’s gross domestic product fell by 6.2 percent in the third quarter relative to the same period of 2008, beating analysts’ expectations, authorities said.Inegi statistics institute said Friday that, excluding seasonal factors, the country’s GDP rose 2.93 percent in the ...
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