GEORGIA: Russia in a war of words - Putin cites state terrorism
TBILISI (AP): Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday denounced Georgia's arrest of Russian officers as "state terrorism," but ordered the withdrawal of Russian troops from the neighbouring country to continue as planned.
BRAZIL: Hunt on for crash dead
BRASILIA (Reuters): Rescuers yesterday cleared the thick jungle around the wreckage of a Brazilian passenger plane that crashed in the Amazon with 155 people on board, opening the way for teams to begin retrieving bodies.
NICARAGUA: Cops make record cocaine bust - three-ton drug haul recovered after gunfight
MANAGUA (AP): Police on Nicaragua's Pacific Coast recorded the largest drug seizure in the nation's history, exchanging gunfire with 14 suspected smugglers and confiscating the three tons of cocaine they left behind when they fled...
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