Bolivia mining violence quelled, minister replaced
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HUANUNI, Bolivia  - A deadly dynamite battle between rival groups of Bolivian miners ended in a truce on Friday night and President Evo Morales fired his mining minister, who was criticized for not anticipating the violence.
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Ivory Coast named a new Cabinet Saturday, replacing the ministers of transport and environment but reappointing most others, after a toxic waste dumping scandal prompted the resignation of the entire 32-member body last week.
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Jakarta, Indonesia - Indonesia&#39;s environment minister charged Friday that Denver-based Newmont Mining Corp. &quot;cut corners&quot; to boost profits at its Indonesian gold mine and expressed confidence the government
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By Rene Villegas LA PAZ, Bolivia  - Anti-government protests inBolivia on Tuesday paralyzed two cities and pushed authoritiesto meet a key demand -- the cancellation of a water concessionrun by a foreign company.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - Kosovo's interior minister resigned on Monday over the deaths of two protesters in clashes between police and ethnic Albanians demonstrating against a UN plan for the breakaway province.
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Opposition leader in Bolivia's wealthier lowlands claim success in a protest against changes to the constitution.
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The ritual sacrifice of a snow-white llama Friday symbolically marked President Evo Morales' nationalization of Bolivia's lone operating tin smelter.
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BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 30 -- Intensifying labor strife, political infighting and budgetary pressures are threatening to chip away at the domestic support of Bolivian President Evo Morales, who took office in January promising to nationalize the natural gas industry and to achieve social equality for the...
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LA PAZ, Bolivia  - The Bolivian Defense Ministrywas damaged on Wednesday by small explosives thrown at thebuilding in what officials said was a terrorist attack bypeople seeking to destabilize the government.
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Honduran gangs had killed before, leaving dismembered bodies and grisly messages in defiance of President Ricardo Maduro&#39;s no-tolerance campaign against them.
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Bolivia's Roman Catholic Church urges calm in the growing conflict over fuel price increases and regional autonomy.
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RIGA, Latvia (International Herald Tribune) - Latvia's government lost two ministers Friday in a widening row over the prime minister's decision to suspend the Baltic nation's top anti-corruption investigator. The dispute has left the government on the verge of collapse, but Prime Minister Aigars Kalvitis said his four-party coalition would stay in office to work on the national budget.
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A member of a government task force working to stop illegal diamond mining on Indian reservations in the Amazon was shot dead at an ATM, authorities said.
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MEXICO CITY, Jan. 16 -- President Felipe CalderÃÂ¿n replaced Mexico's interior minister on Wednesday, a move that political experts say is designed to build better relations with opponents in the legislature who stymied efforts to reform the country's economy and judicial system.
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Peru's interior minister said Wednesday that police acted in self-defense when they killed three coca farmers who were part of a group that hurled rocks and tried to burn a police lieutenant alive to protest U.S.-backed eradication of their cocaine producing crop.
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Clashes between state-employed and independent miners kill at least nine at Bolivia's largest tin mine.
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POTOSI, Bolivia  - High silver prices are drawing a frenzy of miners to a colonial-era mine at Potosi in Bolivia, but the mine has become so dangerous that authorities fear the mine, part of a World Heritage Site, could collapse.