Draft law sparks protests in Peru
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Thousands protest in Cuzco, Peru, against a law promoting development near ancient Inca monuments.
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LIMA, Peru  - The Peruvian government put a  southern Andean town under curfew on Monday after launching a  military offensive to retake a police station held for three  days by ex-soldiers demanding the president's resignation.
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LIMA, Peru  - Peruvian President Alejandro Toledosaid on Thursday he would cooperate with a probe intoallegations he helped forge signatures to register his partyfor the 2000 election, but warned of a "conspiracy againstdemocracy" trying to bring down his government.
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University students have held a week of protests against President Hugo Chavez's decision to force a popular TV station off the air, and their emergence could be the birth of a new opposition movement.
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Venezuelan police fired tear gas and plastic bullets Monday into a crowd of thousands protesting a decision by President Hugo Chavez that forced a television station critical of his leftist government off the air.
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By Jude Webber and Monica Vargas LIMA, Peru  - An armed group led by a radicalformer soldier stormed a police station in a southern town onSaturday and took 10 officers hostage to demand the resignationof Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo.
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Chile is violating the rights of indigenous people by resorting to an outdated anti-terrorism law, a leading rights group says.
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A general strike is called in Bolivia's wealthier lowlands to protest against changes to the constitution.
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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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Peru&#039;s government rejected Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez&#039;s suggestion that Alan Garcia was not the true winner of Peru&#039;s presidential runoff.
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LIMA, Peru  - Four Peruvian police died on Sunday  after security forces battled to retake parts of a southern  town seized by an armed group early on New Year's Day to demand  the resignation of President Alejandro Toledo.
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Prime minister faces objections from all sides over draft law to centralise ownership of reserves.
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Protesters take to the streets in several Guinea towns angry at the president's declaration of martial law.
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Peru's Congress complains to Spanish airline Iberia about alleged discrimination against two indigenous members.
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LIMA, Peru  - Indian peasants burned alive a man  accused of stealing a gas canister in the latest outbreak of  mob justice in Peru's remote southern Andes.
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SEOUL : Tens of thousands of workers have rallied here to protest a government reform bill aimed at stopping union militancy and securing flexible job markets, as a powerful labor group called a massive strike next week against the legislation.
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Supporters of leftist President Rafael Correa armed with sticks and stones fought their way into the Congress building Tuesday, demanding lawmakers call a referendum on whether the country's constitution should be rewritten.