Nicaragua to dig Atlantic-Pacific canal
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$18bn, 12-year project Nicaraguan president Enrique BolaÃ±os has called for international backing for a Nicargua canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific which, he says, is "needed for the rise in world shipping".â¦
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Global miner Rio Tinto Plc    said on Monday it was to invest $300 million developing  Eagle, a high-grade nickel and copper mine in Michigan, United  States.
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PUERTO CABEZAS, Nicaragua - Cecil Clark and Manuel Vendless could see the lights from land, could see safety, when Hurricane Felix's waves picked up their boat, slammed it deep into the ocean, and spit it out into the darkness again.
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua  - Nicaraguan police said late  on Sunday evidence mounted that two bodies found on a volcanic  island were the remains of an American and Briton who went  missing in the Central American nation last month.
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NONDALTON, Alaska -- The gold mine proposed for this stunning open country might be the largest in North America. It would involve building the biggest dam in the world at the headwaters of the world's largest sockeye salmon fishery, which it would risk obliterating.
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua  - Nicaraguan police found two  bodies on Friday on a volcanic island and said they were likely  the remains of an American and a Briton who went missing last  month.
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Nicaragua, Honduras and Mexico geared up for flooding from rain-swollen rivers Thursday in the wake of two devastating hurricanes which left more than 47 dead and scores missing this week.
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The United Nations calls for donors to give generously to help Nicaragua recover after Hurricane Felix.
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GUATEMALA CITY, Sept. 4 -- Hurricanes swept ashore in Nicaragua and Mexico within hours of each other Tuesday, the first time Atlantic and Pacific hurricanes have made landfall on the same day since 1998, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.
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LIMA, Peru  - Peru's new government plans a fresh   push against rising cocaine production in the world's No. 2   producer, betting on U.S. support to slash coca crops and catch   narcotics at ports, officials said on Wednesday.
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Global miner Rio Tinto Plc   said on Monday it was to invest $300 million developing Eagle, a high-grade nickel and copper mine in Michigan, United States.
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Panamanians will vote Oct. 22 on whether to undertake the biggest modification to the Panama Canal since it was opened in 1914.
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The groundbreaking on an expansion of the Panama Canal is seen by many Panamians as a coming of age moment
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The Latin American gold miner looks to consolidate the sector in a big way.
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LIMA, Peru  - Colombia's U.S.-backed eradication  of coca, the raw material for cocaine, is driving drug  traffickers into neighboring Peru and pushing up drug  production there despite a campaign to cut coca-growing areas,  Peru's anti-drugs agency said on Friday.
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Nicaraguan police step up the hunt for stocks of illegal alcohol blamed for the deaths of at least 22 people.
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Britain is seeking to legally annex stretches of the south Atlantic seabed in a bid to tap gas, mineral and oil wealth, in a move that could raise tension with Argentina, a newspaper reported Saturday.