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More protests expected at G-20 summit

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Police said they were preparing for more disruptions Sunday after groups of protesters burned cars, hurled bricks and smashed windows as they tried to penetrate the fence surrounding the G-20 summit.

A medical group in Argentina is asking for more drug-testing regulations in the South American country after a officials fined pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline for alleged irregularities in a pediatric pneumonia vaccine trial.

Colombia’s president says devastating flooding forced him to cancel his scheduled trip to the United Nations’ climate change conference this week — even though global warming itself could be causing the disaster his country faces.

Peruvian Health Minister Alberto Tejada visited Sunday surviving victims of a fire at a rehabilitation center, promising to crack down on treatment facilities that operate “outside the law.”

Eight of the 10 Americans once detained in Haiti landed late Wednesday at Miami International Airport, according to CNN affiliate WFOR.

Sunday.

Mexico began a day of grieving Saturday for Interior Minister Jose Francisco Blake Mora and all seven other passengers and crew who were killed a day earlier in a helicopter crash.

Chilean officials were awaiting the arrival of a main drill and other equipment to begin boring a rescue shaft in a months-long operation to reach 33 miners who have been trapped underground for more than three weeks.

For the last 15 years, Victoria Vigo has been trying to find the truth about her infertility. After her third child was born dead, the 49-year-old leadership skills instructor who lives in Lima, the Peruvian capital, was never able to conceive again.

A spokesman for Colombia’s president says the country has never had any intention of attacking Venezuela.

Search-and-rescue efforts at a supermarket in Haiti’s capital have ended after teams determined no one else was alive beneath the rubble, an official told CNN Wednesday.

It’s the largest producer of cocaine in the world and a key supplier of heroin to the United States.

Guatemalan police on Thursday were searching for a drug trafficker who initiated a shootout with police at a shopping mall the day before.

Police in Rio de Janeiro are searching for a high-profile soccer player accused of orchestrating the kidnapping and murder of a pregnant woman believed to have been a former lover, officials said Wednesday.

Cuban President Raul Castro has replaced two high-level government ministers — citing errors and incompetence — in the latest round of replacements at top-level government posts.

The death toll rose to 75 Sunday on Brazil’s southeast coast after three days of torrential rains unleashed a series of deadly mudslides, an emergency official said.


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