AP - Mexican emigration has dropped 42 percent over the last two years, a government study released Thursday showed, confirming that America has become less appealing amid an economic downturn and stepped up raids against illegal migrants.

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AP - Relatives of dozens of miners killed in a 2006 explosion took over the abandoned mine Thursday in northern Mexico.

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AP - Nicaragua lambasted the U.S. government and the head of the Organization of American States on Thursday, accusing both of trying to destabilize President Daniel Ortega’s government by criticizing local elections.

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AP - Peruvian President Alan Garcia, who won elections in 1985 and 2006, says he’d like to try again — in 2016.

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AP - Mexican emigration has dropped 42 percent over the last two years, a government study released Thursday showed, confirming that America has become less appealing amid an economic downturn and stepped up raids against illegal migrants.

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AP - Relatives of dozens of miners killed in a 2006 explosion took over the abandoned mine Thursday in northern Mexico.

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Reuters - The Group of Eight major industrialized countries should be doubled to include Brazil, China and India and other nations to better tackle global challenges like climate change and economic stability, a blue chip panel said on Thursday.

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Reuters - Oil prices dropped more than 7 percent to below $50 a barrel on Thursday as a bearish U.S. jobs report intensified concerns of a long and deep global recession and further crushed fuel demand expectations.

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Reuters - Rampant piracy off Somalia is forcing shipping companies to avoid the Suez Canal and send cargoes of oil and other goods on a longer journey around southern Africa, industry officials said on Thursday.

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AFP - Pop megastar Madonna and her British husband Guy Ritchie are to be divorced in London Friday, according to a court listing, as reports said they had struck a deal giving him little of her vast fortune.

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