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With busted well dead, BP and partners face multiple probes
(AFP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:35:01 GMT
 AFP - With a key piece of evidence raised from the depths of the Gulf of Mexico and BP's Macondo well ruled a threat no longer, the focus is shifting back to what went wrong and who is to blame.
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BP hikes asset sale target after oil spill: report
(AFP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:56:05 GMT
 AFP - Oil giant BP has increased to nearly 25 billion pounds the amount it wants to raise from an asset sale programme in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the Sunday Times newspaper reported.
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BP Gulf well "secured," awaiting final kill: U.S.
(Reuters)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:59:16 GMT
Reuters - BP Plc's ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well is secure with no threat of spewing crude again, the top U.S. official overseeing the spill response said
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Busted BP well no longer 'threat' to Gulf
(AFP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 05:45:35 GMT
 AFP - The Macondo well, which spilled an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, has been secured and no longer constitutes "a threat," a senior US official said.
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Up to 100 feared buried in Guatemala landslide
(Reuters)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:04:58 GMT
 Reuters - As many as 100 people may have been buried in a landslide in Guatemala on a major highway, a spokesman for the fire department said on Sunday.
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Mexican suspect in US consulate killings in Texas court
(AFP)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:02:36 GMT
 AFP - A Mexican suspect in the March drive-by shooting of a US consulate worker in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez appeared at a closed-door hearing in a Texas court, the San Antonio News said Saturday.
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Ariz. governor says she was wrong about beheadings
(AP)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:11:20 GMT
AP - A claim by Arizona's governor that rising violence along the U.S.-Mexico border has led to headless bodies turning up in the desert came back to haunt her during a stammering debate performance in which she failed to back it up.
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Judge orders Mexico drug lord 'La Barbie' held for 40 days
(AFP)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:05:39 GMT
 AFP - A Mexican federal judge has ordered 40 days of initial detention for Edgar Valdez, a notorious accused drug lord who police arrested this week, the attorney general said Saturday.
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Mexican judge orders drug lord held 40 more days
(Reuters)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:09:27 GMT
 Reuters - A Mexican judge ordered Edgar "La Barbie" Valdez, believed to be one of the country's top drug bosses, held for 40 more days of investigation, the federal prosecutor's office said on Saturday.
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Judge orders alleged kingpin 'La Barbie' held
(AP)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:41:15 GMT
 AP - A judge has ordered a U.S.-born suspected drug lord known as "La Barbie" held for 40 days pending an investigation into organized-crime and other possible charges, authorities announced Saturday.
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Suspect in consulate deaths appears in Texas court
(AP)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:26:54 GMT
AP - A man who told Mexican authorities he ordered the March killing of a U.S. Consulate worker in Mexico has been extradited to the U.S. and appeared in a federal court in Texas, the San Antonio Express-News reported.
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BP spill costs hit 8 bln dlrs as crews unearth clues
(AFP)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:25:06 GMT
 AFP - British oil giant BP has spent eight billion dollars to battle the Gulf of Mexico disaster, the company has revealed as its crews retrieved key evidence from the seabed.
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BP replaces failed blowout preventer on Gulf well
(Reuters)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:16:47 GMT
Reuters - BP Plc successfully replaced a failed blowout preventer from atop its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well late on Friday, the top U.S. official overseeing the spill response said.
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Mexico arrests 6 in deadly Cancun bar blaze
(AP)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:51:12 GMT
 AP - Mexican police have arrested six suspects in a bar fire that killed eight in the resort city of Cancun.
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What now for Gulf? Fire complicates drill debate
(AP)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:24:10 GMT
 AP - What now for the Gulf? News of another oil rig fire in the Gulf of Mexico, so soon after the BP oil spill, has set off a wave of anxiety along the Gulf Coast and prompted calls for the government to extend its six-month ban on deepwater drilling.
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Government says no leaking oil at Mariner platform
(Reuters)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 02:03:16 GMT
 Reuters - U.S. government inspectors found no leaking oil at Mariner Energy Inc's burned platform in the Gulf of Mexico, officials said late on Friday, allaying fears about more environmental damage after BP's massive spill.
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Official: Honduran helped massacre survivor flee
(AP)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:31:32 GMT
 AP - A Honduran who survived the massacre of 72 migrants in Mexico helped untie the only other survivor — a wounded Ecuadorean — and the two fled together, an official said Friday.
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Two Mexican congressmen die in plane crash
(Reuters)
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:30:17 GMT
 Reuters - Two members of Mexico's Congress were among six people killed on Friday when their private plane crashed near a popular Mexican Pacific beach resort, officials said.
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Mexican drug kingpin gets 27 years in Ariz. prison
(AP)
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:59:22 GMT
AP - A Mexican man who prosecutors say headed a major drug-smuggling ring that shipped tons of marijuana into the U.S. was sentenced Friday to 27 years in prison and ordered to forfeit $4 million to the American government.
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Aid groups hails US ruling on water for immigrants
(AFP)
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:55:35 GMT
 AFP - Aid groups welcomed Friday a US court ruling that leaving bottled water in the desert to help illegal immigrants hiking across into the United States from Mexico is not a crime.
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