Most Asian stocks rise on improving US data (AP)
AP – Most Asian stock markets climbed Friday as investors took heart from improving U.S. housing and jobs data amid lingering worries over the pace of the global economic recovery.
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Calderon: Violence price worth paying in drug war (AP)
AP – President Felipe Calderon tried to rally frustrated Mexicans behind his increasingly bloody drug war Thursday, saying he knows violence has surged under his watch, but arguing that it is the price of confronting powerful and brutal cartels.
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Typhoon kills 5 South Koreans (AP)
AP – The death toll from Typhoon Kompasu, which battered the Korean peninsula with strong winds and heavy rains, rose to five in South Korea, an official said Friday.
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Mexico: Soldiers kill 25 in gunbattle near border (AP)
AP – Mexico’s military says 25 suspects have been shot dead by soldiers in a gunbattle near the U.S. border.
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Ecuadorean survivor urges migrants to avoid Mexico (AP)
AP – One of two known survivors of a drug gang’s massacre in northern Mexico of 72 undocumented Central and South American migrants urged others in an interview broadcast Thursday not to attempt the journey to the United States.
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