Polish President Lech Kaczynsky was killed early this morning along with an estimated 96 other passengers, mostly top Polish officials, when his plane crashed at the Smolensk airport in western Russia. The Polish delegation was on its way to mark the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre of thousands of Poles by Soviet forces...
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Frenchwoman Michèle Lampe, age 53, was found dead on Tuesday, strangled in the Second Street room she was renting in Isla Colon, Bocas del Toro. La Critica reports that the foreigner’s “concubine,” otherwise known as Eddie, was investigated for the murder but then released. Hours later, 27-year-old Roberto Alexis Taylor Urriola, who has been...
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Alberto Montezuma, Chief of the Ngöbe Bugle General Congress, has called an extraordinary meeting to oppose President Martinelli offering Cerro Colorado to the South Koreans. “I have called all of the representatives of our congress’s three regions to let our opposition and the steps we will take be known,” said Montezuma, adding that Martinelli...
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