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Peru

LIMA — Peru has reportedly approved a plan to sue Yale University for thousands of Inca artifacts excavated decades ago by a U.S. scholar at Machu Picchu. State newspaper El Peruano said Sunday the Justice Ministry will assign a prosecutor to press the government's case against the New Haven, Conn., university. It did not say when or where such a suit would be filed.

Mexico

MEXICO CITY — A Vatican envoy tried to reassure disillusioned Mexicans on Sunday that Pope Benedict XVI was not snubbing the deeply Roman Catholic country with his decision not to attend an event here next year. The Vatican says the pope declined an invitation to attend World Family Day in January because Mexico City sits too high (7,300 feet) above sea level for someone his age — 81. But the pope is sending his top aide, Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, to stress the importance he places on the event and his affection for Mexico.

Ireland

SHANNON — The U.S. said Sunday it has begun transferring more than $500 million in Libyan compensation money to the families of American victims of the 1988 Pan Am 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland. More money is on the way to complete the settlement, but $504 million of $536 million to be distributed to the families was moved from the Treasury to a private account administered by Lockerbie families' lawyers on Friday, the top U.S. diplomat for the Mideast said.

Guatemala

GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemalan police are investigating possible gang ties to a bus fire that killed 15 people. Flames engulfed the bus late Saturday on a rural road in Zacapa, an eastern region notorious for drug violence. Police spokesman Sergio Garcia says the blaze "was very strange" and may have been sparked by a gang attack. At least 11 people died in a gang fight in Zacapa in March, when several vehicles were torched.

Indonesia