Nicaragua plans Panama Canal rival
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Nicaragua proposes a new inter-oceanic waterway that would carry bigger ships than the Panama Canal.
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WASHINGTON The United States has clinched a berth in the regional qualifying finals for the 2006 World Cup by routing Panama 6-to-0.
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By Daniel Carson, The News Herald, Panama City, Fla.  Dec.
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Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega is ready to work more closely with Washington on anti-narcotics initiatives, he told a visiting group of DEA and State Department officials Monday.
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TechWeb - The announcements come as Nortel launches its North American Optimized Networking campaign, building on IPT 1-2-3 campaigns from last year.
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PARAISO, Panama  - Work started on Monday on a $5.2 billion expansion of Panama's famous canal, the largest-ever overhaul of the short cut between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
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Panama says it wants Manuel Noriega extradited when he is freed from a US jail, but France is also pursuing him.
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GREYTOWN, Nicaragua  - Resting his work-worn hands  on a marble headstone, Nicaraguan caretaker Charly Thomas  points to the epitaph of an American sailor who died in the  Caribbean port of Greytown in the 1850s.
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THE HAGUE, The Netherlands, Dec. 18 (IPS) - Uruguay urged the International Court of Justice  Monday to force Argentina to take measures against environmental  activists who block three access roads to Uruguay, where a  controversial pulp mill is being constructed.
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When accused drug kingpin Francisco Javier Arellano Felix began planning a deep-sea fishing trip more than a year ago, federal drug agents also got ready &#151; to catch their prey.
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Nicaraguan President-elect Daniel Ortega, making his first official trip outside the country, promised on Tuesday to work toward a unified Central America but also said his country needs new trade partnerships beyond its neighbors and the United States.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, in Nicaragua on an official visit, was expected to seek destruction of hundreds of surface-to-air missiles left over from the Latin American country's days as a client of the Soviet Union.
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Substitute Eddie Johnson scored three goals and Landon Donovan netted two as the United States advanced into North American final round qualifying for World Cup 2006 by beating Panama 6-0 on Wednesday.
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The Mets are hoping to use Pedro MartÃ­nez as a tool for expanding their appeal in the Caribbean and South America.
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Panama blasted away part of a hillside next to the canal on Monday, marking the start of the waterway's biggest expansion since it opened 93 years ago.
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The groundbreaking on a new expansion of the Panama Canal is seen by many Panamians as a coming of age moment
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PUERTO CABEZAS, Nicaragua  - The number of people killed when Hurricane Felix tore into the border area between Nicaragua and Honduras this week has jumped to at least 130, a Nicaraguan rescue official said on Friday.