Bolivia airport row turns violent
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Clashes erupt as Bolivian security forces take control of the country's busiest airport in a row over landing fees.
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SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia - Armed with clubs and waving provincial flags, thousands of residents of Bolivia's wealthiest province seized control of the country's busiest airport yesterday from troops sent in by President Evo Morales.
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Residents in Bolivia's Santa Cruz province seize the country's busiest airport after troops withdraw.
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A plane carrying Ivory Coast's prime minister came under heavy gunfire as it landed yesterday at an airport in the country's north, but the leader was not harmed. Four other people were killed by the force of the landing at Bouake airport. Prime Minister Guillaume Soro was taken to a ...
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Violent protests have prompted an assembly rewriting Bolivia's constitution to call a monthlong recess in hopes of rescuing the new charter, one of President Evo Morales' central reforms.
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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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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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SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia  - Bolivia's energy-richregions came to a standstill on Thursday in a 24-hour strike todemand autonomy from capital city La Paz, where a poorindigenous majority has restricted development of the area'svast oil and gas reserves.
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Tensions between the government and opposition in Venezuela reach new highs after a fistfight breaks out in parliament.
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Warring drug cartels have brought a surge in gruesome violence to this Mexican resort town.
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Bolivia's wealthiest region moves to declare autonomy from the centre in protest at a planned new constitution.
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Police in Chile clash with demonstrators protesting against the government's economic policies.
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Respect MP George Galloway said he was subjected to a sectarian attack at Glasgow Airport.
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Clashes between state-employed and independent miners leave 12 dead at Bolivia's largest tin mine.
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Thousands of Bolivians marched for and against President Evo Morales on Saturday in dueling rallies, exposing the deep divisions that threaten to bring fresh political turmoil to South America's poorest country.
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OSLO (dpa) - Two pilots and a passenger on a Kato Air flight to Bodo airport in northern Norway were attacked and injured by an axe-wielding passenger Wednesday, reports said.
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An American woman with ties to the U.S. Embassy was detained at the La Paz airport for attempting to enter Bolivia with 500 rounds of .45-caliber ammunition, officials said Thursday. Donna Thi, 20, was taken into custody by Bolivian immigration officials Wednesday night.