"Lion" roars spook Caracas residents
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Roars from an unidentified feline have scared residents of a mountainous Caracas suburb and triggered a hunt for the capture of what neighbors are convinced is a lion.
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A frame grab from video shows a lion attacking a man who jumped into the animal&#39;s enclosure and shouted &quot;Jesus will save you&quot; Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2004, at the Taipei Zoo, in Taipei, Taiwan.
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Tens of thousands march in Caracas in support of opposition presidential hopeful Manuel Rosales.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan - A man jumped into the lions&#39; enclosure at the Taipei Zoo and shouted &quot;Jesus will save you&quot; before being bitten Wednesday.
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The racist chanting by Spanish fans at Wednesday night&#39;s friendly international in Madrid has left the government here red-faced and fearing a black-mark against the city&#39;s bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games.
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By POLLY SUMMAR Journal Staff Writer  Zozobra may have been burned Thursday night, but there will be gloom on Escalante Street until a marauding mountain lion is caught.
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Masked gunmen open fire on students protesting in Caracas against planned constitutional reforms.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - As the setting sun casts  long shadows over a Caracas cemetery, crime-weary Venezuelans  pray at the tomb of the notorious thief Ismael, believing he  and other dead gangsters can protect them against violent  attacks and robberies.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Residents of crime-plagued Rio de Janeiro have a new kind of predator to worry about - hawks.
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Summoned by bugle calls and the detonations of huge firecrackers, Venezuelans turned out in unprecedented numbers Sunday to vote on whether to force leftist President Hugo Chavez from office.
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- Amid tumbledown cinder-block homes, the Don Bosco community center rings with music. A chorus of pint-size students sings traditional Christmas songs; 20 budding teenage musicians take gratingly painful stabs at playing violins and cellos; and tiny harpists dwarfed by their...
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ST. LOUIS -- This was the kind of deflating loss that would send some teams -- the Cubs come to mind -- into the fetal position. Twelve grueling innings, a booming walkoff two-run homer and 52,144 people screaming loud enough to make your ears ring.
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Some people have nightmares, others   fear tall buildings and others cringe at the sound of airplanes   overhead.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan - A lion attacked a man who jumped into the animal's enclosure and shouted "Jesus will save you!" at the big cat Wednesday at the zoo in Taiwan's capital.
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CARACAS, Venezuela - Summoned by bugle calls and firecrackers, millions of Venezuelans turned out in unprecedented numbers Sunday to vote on whether to force leftist President Hugo Chavez from office.    Lines snaked for blocks in upscale neighborhoods, where suspicion is high that the leftist leader plans a Cuba-style dictatorship, and in the slums, where support for his "revolution for the poor" is fervent...
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President Hugo Chavez&#039;s plans to build the first Kalashnikov factory in South America are stirring fears Venezuela could start arming his leftist allies in the hemisphere with Russian assault rifles.
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Venezuelan authorities accuse a TV channel of inciting the murder of the president, a day after closing another station.