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Mexican Foreign Minister to Pay Official Visit to China
Beijing, May 18 (Prensa Latina) The Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Jose Antonio Meade, will start Sunday a two-day official visit to China, said the Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei. Meade meets an invitation of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Those nations last year celebrated four decades of the establishment of diplomatic relations, which rose to strategic partnership in 2003. ...
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South America contraception up to 79 Middle Africa 19
Between 2003 and 2012, the total number of women worldwide wanting to avoid pregnancy and in need of contraception increased from 716 million to 867 million, with growth concentrated among women in the 69 poorest countries where modern method use was already very low. A young Chinese boy walks past a neighborhood 'sex shop', full of contraceptive suggestions, in central Beijing. (UPI ...
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General Assembly Adopts Texts on Items Ranging from Self-Determination to Peace in South Atlantic Supports Extension of Impunity Commission in Guatemala
The General Assembly, working through its busy agenda, today adopted five resolutions and one decision on a wide range of items, including on the self-determination of French Polynesia and on peace and cooperation in the South ...
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Mexican gangland film contends Cannes Palme d’Or
MEXICO CITY, Mexico -- The Mexican contender for top honors at this year's Cannes Film festival is a brutal depiction of the country's poverty and the gangland carnage it's helped spawn. The initial signs have been good: Director Amat Escalante's latest film "Heli" received a 15-minute ovation when it was shown in ...
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Professionals Dancers to Gather for CUBABALLET in July
Havana, May 18 (Prensa Latina) Havana-based center Prodanza will host the International Practical Course of the Cuban Ballet School (ECB), Cubaballet, on July 8-Aug.4, expected to be attended by ballet dancers and professors from different ...
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Correction Honduras-Death Squads story
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -; In a story May 13 about suspects disappearing or dying after being in the custody of the Honduran National Police, The Associated Press misquoted U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William Brownfield as suggesting that the Honduran armed forces have engaged in vigilantism. In fact, Brownfield was speaking of the danger of communities carrying out ...
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Popes Message to IV National Eucharistic Congress in Costa Rica
VATICAN CITY, April 22, 2013 (Zenit.org) - Here is a translation of the message that Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, sent in the name of the Holy Father Francis, to the participants in the 4th National Eucharistic Congress in Costa Rica (Cartago, April 14-21, 2013) on the topic: "The Eucharist: Bread of Life for Our People." The message was read by the ...
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Mexican homebuilder Geo says Scotiabank suing it over debt
MEXICO CITY | Fri May 17, 2013 3:29pm EDT MEXICO CITY May 17 (Reuters) - Mexican homebuilder Geo said on Friday the Mexican branch of Canadian lender Bank of Nova Scotia has begun legal proceedings to seek payments it is owed. Geo, which is struggling with weak home sales, said the payments to Scotiabank were worth less than 0.5 percent of the debt the company is trying to restructure, ...
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ALBA Countries Define in Cuba Its Social Agenda
Havana, May 17 (Prensa Latina) The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our ...
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Bill Gates Beats Out Mexican Billionaire
Image credit: Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images Bill Gates has regained his title as richest man in the world after five years out of the top spot, beating Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim. The net worth of Gates, founder of Microsoft and co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, hit a five-year high on Thursday at $72.7 billion, topping that of Slim, 73, according to Bloomberg Billionaires ...
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Guatemalas victory for human rights highlights a major US failure | Amy Goodman
Rigoberta Menchu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992, "in recognition of her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples." She continued telling me about her family's ...
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Yahoo Gets Mexican Yellow Pages Ruling Overturned
The Superior Court of Justice for the Federal District in Mexico agreed to overturn awards against Yahoo and Yahoo Mexico after Yahoo ...
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Yahoos $2.75 billion Mexican ruling overturned
A Mexican appellate court has thrown out a $2.75 billion ruling against Yahoo Inc. and Yahoo Mexico, Reuters reports. The ruling late last year was reported to equal as much as 40 percent of Yahoo's 2012 cash balance. The case involves two Mexican companies that allege Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) breached a contract related to an online yellow pages ...
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Mexican FM to visit China
Mexican Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Meade Kuribrena will visit China from May 19 to 20, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei announced at a regular press conference Friday in Beijing.According to Hong, the visit paid by Kuribrena, Mexico's Secretary of Foreign Relations, is at the invitation of the Chinese Foreign ...
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New construction in tourism industry – signs of recovery or misplaced optimism?
The whole of Central America has been affected by the global downturn. One of the industries effected most has been tourism, and while many construction and expansion projects were planned during the heady days of 2007 and early 2008, the region may now be facing a huge oversupply problem in terms of hotel accommodation, although there are signs of light on the horizon.
In 2006, the Tourism Ministers of various countries in the region came together at San Ramon for a conference and told Central American news providers that the tourism industry for the region as whole had grown by an average of 11%, which account for, on average, 5% of the region’s GDP for that year, in addition, there was astounding growth in the number of European tourists travelling to Central America, a 147% increase in fact. Read more
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