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22 February 2012 Last updated at 11:41 ET

Argentina train crash 'kills 49'

A commuter train crash at a station in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, kills 49 people and leaves at least 600 injured, officials say.

Mexico taxi drivers gunned down

Five taxi-drivers are shot dead as they wait for fares in the Mexican city of Monterrey, in an attack that is being blamed on extortion gangs.

Venezuela's Chavez faces new surgery

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who had cancer last year, says he will have to undergo another operation to remove a small lesion.
Cigarette linked to prison blaze

A prison fire in Honduras that killed 360 inmates was accidental and may have been started by a discarded cigarette, officials say.
US and Mexico sign Gulf oil deal
Honduras relatives storm morgue
Landmines close Chile-Peru border
Mexico sacks jail boss over riot
Rio parade draws record numbers
Honduras buries jail fire victims
Ecuador upholds Correa libel win

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