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Syngenta Flowers' Don Snow Donates Truck to Charity

Don Snow, technical specialist manager for Syngenta Flowers, will donate his beloved truck Old Red to charity.

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Related Topix: Life, Charity , World News, Gilroy, CA

Fri Nov 27, 2009

CBS News

Guatemala Mob Kills, Burns 3 Suspected Criminals

Police say a mob in Guatemala burned to death two men and a woman suspected of killing a local bus driver.

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Related Topix: World News

WisInfo

Former Pacelli student considered for sainthood

A man who spent his childhood in Ellis, who was murdered in 1982 while doing mission work in Guatemala for the Catholic Church, has taken the first steps toward sainthood.

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Related Topix: World News, Central America, Stevens Point, WI,

Thu Nov 26, 2009

Inter Press Service

ENVIRONMENT-GUATEMALA: SOS from Lake Atitlan

GUATEMALA CITY, Nov 24 - A thick, chocolate-coloured scum floats on the normally clear blue waters of Lake Atitlan, in the southwestern Guatemalan province of Solola, caused by agricultural fertilisers and untreated sewage from surrounding villages and farms.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, World News, Davis, CA

Wed Nov 25, 2009

Prensa Latina

Guatemala Bolsters Security on Mexico Border

Guatemala, Nov 24 The presence of Guatemalan security forces have increased in border zones with Mexico, where locals had lost confidence on the police.

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Related Topix: Central America, World News

Tue Nov 24, 2009

The Herald

Darrington Elementary honored by Guatemala for helping schools

Children from this small, economically depressed town in the Cascade Range foothills went all out last spring to help establish a community library in the mountain village of Zacatecas, Guatemala.

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Related Topix: World News, Central America, Darrington, WA, Libraries, Education Etc., Family, Kids

Mon Nov 23, 2009

GroundReport.com

Illegal Weapons Trafficking Grows in Mexico

The Intelligence Group of the Mexican Army Zone operating in northern Mexico, especially in the Gulf Coast, and those who patrol the border with Guatemala, are among the few who have heard of the Arabs.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Navy, US News, World News, Mexico,

Sat Nov 21, 2009

CCTV

US launches food aid for Guatemala

The United States has pledged 15 million dollars in food aid for Guatemala, in a bid to help thousands of families out of hunger and poor nutrition.

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Related Topix: Central America, World News,

Fri Nov 20, 2009

Ocala Business Journal

Boyfriend charged with abusing toddler; mom with neglect

Published: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 4:49 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 5:27 p.m. A man was arrested Friday in Williston on accusations that he molested a 2-year-old, while the man's girlfriend was arrested on accusations that she neglected the same child, who is her daughter.

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Related Topix: Williston, FL, World News, Levy County, FL

Thu Nov 19, 2009

TravelPod.com Recent Updates

Xela - Quetzaltenango, Guatemala

Quezaltenango is the crossroads of western Guatemala, and brother city to nearby Totonicapan, one of Guatemala's premier craft centers.

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Related Topix: World News

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Inside Costa Rica

40% of Guatemala's Elderly Living in Poverty

Forty percent of Guatemala's estimated 900,000 residents over the age of 60 are living in a state of poverty, the national ombudsman's office said.

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Related Topix: World News, Alvaro Colom

TravelPod.com Recent Updates

Way Way - Huehuetenango, Western Highlands, Guatemala

Huehuetenango , Western Highlands , Guatemala Tuesday, December 13, 1977 Huehuetenango is the first town you come to on the highland route from Chiapas, and market center for the surrounding countryside.

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Related Topix: Central America, World News

Tue Nov 17, 2009

Inside Costa Rica

Lynching on the Rise in Guatemala

The imposition of the law into one s own hands in Guatemala worries the authorities because even now it is observed a rise regarding last year.

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Related Topix: Central America, World News

Mon Nov 16, 2009

Prensa Latina

Venezuelan Relief to El Salvador

San Salvador, Nov 12 Venezuela sent humanitarian aid to El Salvador devastated by heavy rain and mudslides, which so far left 157 dead, 58 missing and 14,000 victims.

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Related Topix: Weather, World News, El Salvador

Sat Nov 14, 2009

TravelPod.com Recent Updates

San Pedro La Laguna - San Pedro La Laguna, Solola, Guatemala

San Pedro La Laguna in two different towns it has a little village right next to the lake were all the foreigners live the locals call it Gringo town.

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Related Topix: World News

CLTV - Chicago Land's TV

A day of prayer and joy

Pope John Paul II, the most traveled pope in history, came yesterday to Baltimore, the birthplace of American Catholicism, and presided over a day of celebration, pageantry and prayer.

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Related Topix: Roman Catholic Church, Religion, Pope Benedict XVI, Maryland, World News,

Thu Nov 12, 2009

Fides News

AMERICA/GUATEMALA - 'He was a friend to the youth, sincere and coherent,' fellow ...

Fr. Juan Pablo Lobos, a fellow Franciscan brother of Fr. Miguel Angel Hernandez, who was kidnapped and murdered in Honduras in recent days , sent Fides some news about his funeral and his remembrance of Fr.

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Related Topix: World News, Central America, El Salvador,

Wed Nov 11, 2009

Fides News

AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Franciscan priest working in Honduras found murdered in Guatemala after ...

Guatemalan Franciscan priest Fr. Miguel Angel Hernandez, who had been assigned to a parish in Ocotepeque and who had disappeared last weekend, was found dead in a province of eastern Guatemala.

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Related Topix: Central America, World News,

Mon Nov 09, 2009

Prensa Latina

New Operation Miracle Clinic in Guatemala

Guatemala, Nov 9 Guatemala has opened in Villa Nueva Municipality the fourth eye clinic as part of the Operation Miracle, six miles from downtown Guatemala City.

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Related Topix: World News,

Freerepublic.com

Ignore the movie: 2012 will not be the end of world, say Mayans

The world is beset by a series of outlandish catastrophes in the much-hyped Sony Pictures movie.

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Related Topix: World News, 2012, China, Tsunami, Natural Disasters, Short, Independence Day, Thriller, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Science Fiction Movies, Central America,

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