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By RACHEL ZOLL, AP Religion Writer
17 minutes ago



NEW YORK - Pope Benedict XVI has reached out in compassion to beleaguered clergy, victims of clergy sex abuse and members of other religious groups during his first U.S. trip.

On the final day of his journey, he turns his focus to the people of New York, in a prayer service Sunday at the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Benedict has invited 24 people with ties to ground zero to join him: survivors, relatives of victims and four rescue workers. He will pray for peace, hope and healing, including for those who became ill after breathing toxic air in the ruins.

More than 2,700 people were killed in the terrorist strike.

"God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world," the pope is expected to pray. "Turn to your way of love those whose hearts and minds are consumed with hatred."

The site where the World Trade Center was destroyed is normally filled with hundreds of workers building a 102-story skyscraper, a memorial and transit ...

Fri Apr 18, 11:57 AM ET



OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested a former senior Liberal official on Friday on fraud charges in connection with an advertising scandal that helped topple the Liberal government in 2006.

The Mounties arrested Benoit Corbeil, who headed the Quebec wing of the Liberal Party, in connection with offenses committed against the government and against his party, a police statement said.

He will face charges of fraud and exercise of influence that have been laid in the wake of irregularities in a former federal government sponsorship program that was designed to combat separatism in Quebec.

The so-called sponsorship scandal involved C$100 million ($100 million) in government advertising and sponsorship contracts being funneled to Liberal-friendly firms for little or no work.

Largely because of those revelations, the Liberals were defeated in the January 2006 election and replaced by a minority Conservative government.

(Reporting by Randall Palmer; ...

By John McCrank
Fri Apr 18, 4:42 PM ET



TORONTO (Reuters) - Commuters in Canada's biggest city will likely face a long, slow trip to work on Monday morning, as a strike by members of Toronto's main transit union looks virtually certain, a source close to the contract talks said on Friday.

The person, who asked not to be identified, said talks between the Amalgamated Transit Union and the Toronto Transit Commission had broken down.

"The TTC, as early as this morning, has told the union there is no more," the source said.

"They are not putting anything on the table and this follows the union's press conference where they said if there is not an acceptable offer by Sunday at 4 p.m., there will be a strike on Monday morning. So, it looks bad."

The TTC carries more than 1.5 million passengers every weekday.

The Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 113, which represents nearly 9,000 TTC employees, said the main issues are benefits and compensation.

It said its workers have a substandard benefits ...

By Roberta Rampton
Fri Apr 18, 4:48 PM ET



WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - A Canadian native chief has asked Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to help his people gain a share of revenues from two pipelines being built to ship surging volumes of oil to the United States.

Terrance Nelson, chief of the Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation in southern Manitoba, wrote to Chavez this week to ask the leftist firebrand for C$1 million ($1 million) to help fund a legal bid for royalties from the pipelines, which run near the reserve.

"All the white guys are getting money off this resource," Nelson said in an interview. "None of this oil ... came over on the boat with John Cabot," he said, referring to the Italian explorer who landed in what is now Canada in 1497.

Venezuela is a major oil exporter and Chavez is a fierce critic of the United States, and Nelson said he could score public relations points by allying himself with Canada's aboriginal people, who often live in worse conditions than other segments ...

By BILL CORMIER, Associated Press Writer
Sun Apr 20, 3:54 AM ET



ASUNCION, Paraguay - One candidate is a former bishop who casts himself as a Paraguayan David fighting a "monstrous Goliath" in a bid to end 61 years of one-party rule. His rival wants to become the nation's first female president.

Polls suggest that Paraguayans could vote out the only ruling party most of them have ever known on Sunday. The Colorado Party has endured through democracy and dictatorship in this poor, agrarian South American nation, and has been in power even longer than Cuba's Communist Party.

Hoping to end the party's six-decade run is former Roman Catholic Bishop Fernando Lugo, sometimes called "the bishop of the poor," who several polls show narrowly leading Colorado candidate Blanca Ovelar as well as former army chief Lino Cesar Oviedo.

Eight months ago, Lugo welded leftist unions, Indians and poor farmers into a coalition with Paraguay's main opposition party to form the Patriotic Alliance for Change.

Lugo, ...

By JEANNETTE NEUMANN, Associated Press Writer
Sat Apr 19, 11:49 PM ET



BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - President Cristina Fernandez surveyed more than 200 raging brush fires by air, vowing to prosecute anyone who lit the blazes that have sent smoke billowing across the capital, clouding highways and grounding jetliners.

"People must be held responsible for this," Fernandez said after riding in a helicopter Saturday over cattle ranches and farms north of Buenos Aires, where hundreds of firefighters worked with the army to extinguish the fast-moving flames.

Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo and Environmental Minister Romina Picolotti urged Argentina's judiciary to investigate owners of charred farmland, to see if fires were intentionally set by some farmers to clear scrub brush on the cheap.

Two people have been arrested in an arson investigation, and more than 15 search warrants have been issued to inspect private farm property, Randazzo said.

Farmers, who dumped soy and grains on highways to ...

By WILL WEISSERT, Associated Press Writer
Sat Apr 19, 3:03 PM ET



HAVANA - First comes the stink of diesel, then a metallic roar, and finally a tower of black smoke that tells you the "camello" — the camel — has reached your stop.

These hulking 18-wheeled beasts, iron mutants made of two Soviet-era buses welded together on a flatbed and pulled by a separate cab, have long been Havana's public transport nightmare — bumpy, hot and jammed with up to 400 passengers at a time.

But their gradual disappearance is a telling sign of change in the twilight of the Fidel Castro age. The last "camello" is expected to go out of service in Havana on Sunday night.

The camello, so named for its humped front and rear sections, is being eclipsed by thousands of new city buses from China as the government under Castro's brother, Raul, resuscitates a public transportation system on the brink of collapse.

Route M-6, running from the capital's southern outskirts uptown to the University of Havana, is the city's ...

By BEN FOX, Associated Press Writer
Sat Apr 19, 1:45 PM ET



PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Hundreds of Haitians stood in long lines Saturday, just as others had walked for hours throughout the week to receive the U.N. and regional food aid pouring into the country after a spate of deadly riots.

But amid the tenuous calm, aid groups say they are just buying time — and long-term solutions seem remote in the desperately poor nation.

"The beans might last four days," said Jervais Rodman, an unemployed carpenter with three children who emerged from a churchyard Friday with small bags of food. "The rice will be gone as soon as I get home."

Rodman was one of the lucky ones. Luis Elaine, 48, clutched an empty sack after being told at the same church that there was no food left. Many distribution centers simply ran out.

"I just hope God will provide something," Elaine said.

More than half of Haiti's nearly 9 million people live on less than $2 a day, but the sharp rise in prices has thrown some of those ...

By DAN KEANE, Associated Press Writer
Fri Apr 18, 11:52 PM ET



LA PAZ, Bolivia - Bolivia's government is seeking to charge an American rancher and his son — a former Mr. Bolivia pageant winner — for their alleged role in violent protests against President Evo Morales' land redistribution plan.

Ronald Larsen, who has extensive land holdings in Bolivia, and his son Duston are named in a criminal complaint for "sedition, robbery, and other crimes." The complaint was announced on Friday by Deputy Minister of Land Alejandro Almaraz.

Ronald Larsen, of Montana, is accused of firing on Almaraz's vehicle and holding the minister hostage as he tried to carry out a government inspection of Larsen's ranch in southern Bolivia on February 29. The Larsens are also accused of leading a protest last week in the nearby town of Cuevo that left some 40 people injured.

Prosecutors will now decide whether to file charges against the pair. Neither could be immediately be reached for comment, and it was unclear if ...

By JEANNETH VALDIVIESO, Associated Press Writer
Fri Apr 18, 7:22 PM ET



QUITO, Ecuador - Ecuador's constitutional assembly on Friday approved a decree revoking most of the mining concessions in the country, following up on the leftist government's pledge to take greater control over natural resources.

The decision by the government-controlled assembly, which is writing a new constitution, suspended some 3,100 of the 4,112 active concessions in Ecuador and 1,220 concession requests. Affected companies include Canada's Aurelian Resources Inc., EcuaCorriente and Iamgold Corp.

President Rafael Correa, who is a close ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, said the decree will not "impede future concessions, but rather, the current ones, the majority of which are awful."

"The current dilemma is not whether to say yes to mining, but to seek economically, socially and environmentally responsible mining," he said in a presidential statement.

The 130-member assembly, which is acting as Ecuador's ...

By HERVE BRIVAL, Associated Press Writer
Thu Apr 17, 4:13 PM ET



FORT-DE-FRANCE, Martinique - Aime Cesaire, an anti-colonialist poet and politician who was honored throughout the French-speaking world and was an early proponent of black pride, has died at 94.

Cesaire died Thursday at a Fort-de-France hospital where he was being treated for heart problems and other ailments, said government spokeswoman Marie Michele Darsieres.

He was one of the Caribbean's most celebrated cultural figures and was revered in his native Martinique, where his passing brought tears and spontaneous memorial observances.

The French island sent him to the country's parliament for nearly half a century and repeatedly elected him mayor of the capital.

Cesaire helped found the "Black Student" journal in Paris in the 1930s that launched the idea of "negritude," urging blacks to cultivate pride in their heritage. His 1950 "Discourse on Colonialism" became a classic of French political literature.

French President Nicolas ...

Thu Apr 17, 3:14 PM ET



GEORGETOWN, Guyana - Guyana is tackling the soaring price of food in markets by sending citizens to their gardens to grow their own.

President Bharrat Jagdeo said Thursday the government would give seeds — mostly rice — in rural communities, hoping that people will sow them on idle land and in gardens in the small South American nation.

"I don't want to say that everyone should become a farmer because not everyone is cut out for that, but when the economics are right you can do anything," said Jagdeo, who did not reveal the cost of the program.

Indian communities would get seeds for a special variety of rice suitable for the hilly communities where many life.

Isolated protests have broken out over rising food costs in Guyana, where chicken costs 50 percent more than it did last year. Rice prices have risen 80 percent. U.N. officials have expressed alarm about food price rises worldwide.

Guyana also announced Thursday that it has restricted rice exports to Africa to ...

By MARCO SIBAJA, Associated Press Writer
Thu Apr 17, 7:10 AM ET

BRASILIA, Brazil - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva made an impassioned defense of biofuels, denying that their production contributes to food scarcity and rising global prices.

He also sharply criticized industrial countries for subsidizing agricultural output, which he blamed for undermining the competitiveness of developing nations and reducing world production.

"Biofuels aren't the villain that threatens food security," he said at the start of a Latin American meeting of the U.N.'s Food and Agricultural Organization. "On the contrary ... they can pull countries out of energy dependency without affecting foods."

Brazil is the world's leading exporter of ethanol, and the world's No. 2 producer after the United States. Brazil makes the biofuel from sugar cane, as opposed to the corn-based ethanol that dominates U.S. production.

Silva's speech Wednesday was seen as a response to a U.N. report released Tuesday that called biofuels ...

By THERESA BRADLEY, Associated Press Writer
Wed Apr 16, 10:46 PM ET

CANCUN, Mexico - Latin American leaders vowed to boost trade and investment in the region to withstand a sharp economic downturn in the United States.

"We have to learn to turn on our own motors," Mexican President Felipe Calderon told the closing session of the two-day World Economic Forum on Latin America in Cancun, Mexico. "We have to speed up our own rhythm of growth."

After widespread free-market reforms during the 1990s, the commodity-producing region has harnessed soaring metal and oil prices to grow more than 5 percent in the past five years.

Many countries are now deepening their economies, investing record commodity earnings in public spending while credit, pension and securities markets swell.

Still, many have relied on the U.S. as their main trade partner and source of investment — especially Mexico, which sends 80 percent of its exports to its northern neighbor.

Now that the sub-prime mortgage crisis has slowed ...