Peru Coca Farmers Break Into Power Plant, Two Dead
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LIMA, Peru  - Hundreds of farmers seized a  hydroelectric plant in southern Peru on Tuesday to protest  government coca eradication efforts after a clash with police  in which two people died and 10 were hurt, officials said.
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By Marco Aquino and Jude Webber LIMA, Peru  - Peruvian police and troops on Mondaylaunched an offensive to retake a police station in a southernAndean town and end a three-day siege by ex-soldiers demandingthe resignation of unpopular President Alejandro Toledo.
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LIMA, Peru  - Peruvian special forces on Tuesday  freed 17 foreign tourists who were briefly taken hostage by  protesting coca growers in an Inca temple in the southern  tourist city of Cuzco.
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Fourteen coal miners died at the   weekend in two separate accidents, while the death toll at a   third pit climbed to nine, underscoring China's reputation as   the world's deadliest mining industry.
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SARDINATA, Colombia  - Explosions killed at least 30 workers in a Colombian coal mine in the northeastern province of Norte de Santander and another was feared dead, officials said on Sunday.
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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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Summoning President Evo Morales at dawn to the great hall of the presidential palace, two poncho-clad Indian shamans pour alcohol on coca leaves, candies and a dried llama fetus, and set them on fire.
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NUEVO JERUSALEM, Peru -- TomÃÂ¡s Maynas Carijano strolled through his tiny jungle farm, pinching leaves, shaking his head. The rain forest spread lushly in all directions -- covering what oil maps call Block 1AB.
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Soldiers carrying automatic weapons moved closer to a police station seized by paramilitary nationalists over the weekend in this remote Andean town after the Interior Ministry said Monday it was preparing to storm the building, and a police sharpshooter killed one rebel on the roof of the station.
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NUEVO JERUSALEM, Peru -- TomÃÂ¿s Maynas Carijano strolled through his tiny jungle farm, pinching leaves, shaking his head. Rain forest spread lush in all directions -- covering what oil maps call Block 1AB.
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The death toll from a coal mine explosion in central China last week has risen to 122, with 26 people still missing. The accident happened at the Daping mine in Xinmi, central Henan province, on Wednesday, when 446 miners were working underground.
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By Jude Webber and Tania Mellado LIMA, Peru  - Peruvian authorities were trying onTuesday to negotiate the surrender of an armed group holdinghostages in a police station, hours after arresting theirleader who had demanded the president's resignation.
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A miner survived is examined at a hospital in Fushun, city of northeast China&#39;s Liangning Province, Oct. 30, 2004. A sudden poisonous gas gushed at an operation platform of the Xilutian Mine of Fushun Coal Industry Corp.
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At least four Peruvian police officers die in a shootout with army reservists who took over a police station, reports say.
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The death toll of the Daping coal mine gas blast climbed to 62, as rescuers found two more bodies there Thursday night. The blast occurred 10:10 pm Wednesday when 446 miners
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LIMA, Peru  - Five inmates were killed and at  least 25 were injured in gun battles at South America's biggest  jail on Tuesday in what Peru's prisons chief said were gang  turf wars.
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THE death toll in a Chinese coal mine blast rose to 64 yesterday, with 84 people still missing. The explosion, on Wednesday in Henan province, was the deadliest this year in the country&#39;s mines.