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24 February 2012 Last updated at 00:18 ET

Chavez set for new Cuba surgeryHugo Chavez

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who had cancer last year, is heading to Cuba again on Friday for surgery to remove a potentially cancerous lesion.


Disabled protesters clash with police in La PazBolivia disabled and police clash

Dozens of disabled people clash with police in Bolivia's main city of La Paz during a protest calling for higher state subsidies.

Mayan ruins at Palenque in southern MexicoMild drought 'caused Maya fall'

New research suggests mild drought conditions were enough to cause the collapse of the Central American Maya civilisation after AD950.

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