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| Promising to fight to improve the lot of the nation's poor and to root out corruption, Alejandro Toledo was sworn in Saturday, becoming Peru's first elected president of Indian descent and returning the country to democracy after 10 ... |
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HANOI, Vietnam -- Myanmar's foreign minister insists that landmark talks with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi are making progress and says Western sanctions would only push the country towards poverty, not democracy.
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MOUNT ETNA, Sicily -- The authorities in eastern Sicily have been forced to close the main airport as emergency crews battle to halt lava flows from Mount Etna.
It was the second time in as many weeks that flights into and out of Fontanarossa airport have had to be cancelled or diverted because thick flakes of gray ash covering the airstrip made flying too dangerous. The move, on Saturday, came as emergency workers continued a round-the-clock battle to prevent Etna's lava flow reaching mountainside tourist facilities.
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| Lima |
Peru's President-elect Alejandro Toledo will be inaugurated , a year after enduring smear campaigns in a battle against the autocratic regime of ex-President Alberto Fujimori.
Toledo, an economist who overcame poverty to earn a ... |
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