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01/11/2006:
"Spain's Little Piece of Africa"
Panamanian official resigns, citing U.S.PANAMA CITY, Panama -- Panama's agricultural minister resigned Tuesday, accusing the United States of pressuring the Central American country to accept lower agricultural inspection standards.
UN admits civilians may have died in Haiti peacekeeping raid
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has accused the United States of blocking a purchase of training jets from Brazil.
Two dozen Haitians found dead in Dominican van
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Ten years after the first significant planting of genetically modified (GM) crops there are no apparent benefits for consumers, farmers or the environment, said a report made public on Tuesday.
Spain's Little Piece of Africa
For half a millennium, the Spanish have held on to this little piece of Africa, an enclave carved by conquistadors chasing the last Moors from Catholic Spain. Melilla and its sister enclave, Ceuta, are sovereign Spanish territory with Spanish citizens and flag, geographically in what is today Morocco: the last remnants of Europe in Africa.