Bogota, May 3 (IANS/EFE) A Colombian presidential candidate has revealed that he smoked marijuana like the majority of his classmates while studying at a US university.
Government-backed candidate Juan Manuel Santos, from the Partido de la U, admitted Sunday that he and his classmates used marijuana during their studies at the
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San Salvador, May 3 (IANS/EFE) Six people were killed and one wounded when five gunmen opened fire at a football field in El Salvador, police said.
The incident occurred Saturday in Olocuilta town, 22 km from San Salvador, National Civilian Police officials said Sunday.
Three men died at the spot, two succumbed
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Bogota, May 2 (IANS/EFE) Colombian journalist Oscar Rubio Cardenas was murdered in his apartment in downtown Bogota, apparently by two people attempting to rob him, officials said.
The body of the journalist, 75, was found in an apartment in downtown Bogota with signs of suffocation and knife wounds.
Preliminary investigations by the
La Paz, May 2 (IANS/EFE) Bolivian President Evo Morales Saturday nationalised three power companies with foreign capital and a local electricity cooperative during a ceremony to mark International Workers' Day.
The nationalised power generating companies were Corani, which was 50 percent owned by Ecoenergy International, a unit of France's GDF Suez;
Sao Paulo, May 2 (IANS/EFE) The Brazilian automotive industry will invest $11.2 billion during the three-year period between 2010 and 2012, an amount that tops the $8.1 billion of the three preceding years, local media said.
The new president of Brazil's National Automotive Vehicles Association, or Anfavea, Cledorvino Bellini, said Saturday
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Lima, May 2 (IANS/EFE) Some 20 pink dolphins were apparently poisoned and killed by poachers in Bazagan Lagoon in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon, the Lima press said.
According to the daily La Republica, these pink dolphins (Inia geoffrensis) are believed to have been poisoned by fishermen to keep them
Bogota, April 23 (IANS/EFE) Colombian model and television presenter Lina Marulanda died when she fell from the balcony of her sixth-floor apartment here in the Colombian capital, authorities have said.
Marulanda died instantly Thursday, authorities said, adding that it was a case of possible suicide.
The model was going through a divorce
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Caracas, April 23 (IANS/EFE) Venezuela and Cuba have signed a treaty for exploration of crude oil and natural gas in two Venezuelan states, the state-owned oil authority has said.
The joint venture, named Petrolera VENCUPET SA, will be 60 percent owned by venezuela's Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) and 40 percent
Santo Domingo, April 23 (IANS/EFE) Two Dominicans, who fled to Mexico after they were implicated in 36 murders-for-hire, were detained there and have now been sent back to the Dominican Republic, police said.
Joel Bautista Vasquez and Sergio Humberto Mota Reynos are also accused of wounding 15 other people.
The pair fled
Madrid, April 23 (IANS/EFE) The arrival of international tourists in Spain rose by 3.2 percent last month to 3.5 million, the biggest monthly increase since May 2008, the industry ministry said.
The figure shows a recovery with respect to data provided in recent months by the ministry's Tourism Studies Institute.
In February,
