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Nicaragua: Damage
MANAGUA — Hurricane Ida swept onto Nicaragua's Atlantic coast Thursday, destroying homes, damaging schools and downing bridges before losing steam and becoming a tropical depression as it moved inland. Ida's winds swirled at 75 mph hen the storm struck land around sunrise in Tasbapauni, about 60 miles northeast of Bluefields, said meteorologist Dennis Feltgen of the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami. The storm is expected to regain strength when it emerges over the Caribbean Sea on Saturday, the center said.
Mexico: Baby back
MEXICO CITY — A 1-year-old girl is back with her mother a year after the Mexico City doctors who delivered her allegedly sold her to another woman.
Authorities handed the baby to Vanessa Castillo on Thursday after tests proved she was the mother. The case led to the arrest Wednesday of three doctors, a nurse and a receptionist at a hospital in a poor neighborhood. According to Castillo, doctors refused to let her see the baby after the October 2008 birth, then first told her the infant was taken to another hospital and later that she had died and been cremated.
Peru: Rebel attack
LIMA — Peru's defense minister says Shining Path rebels attacked a military outpost in the country's coca-producing highlands, killing one soldier and wounding three. The post is in Vizcatan, in southern Ayacucho province, long a jungle stronghold for a 350-strong rebel faction. Peru's military dislodged the rebels in an offensive last year, but have since lost 41 soldiers and six police officers in the region. The rebel death toll is unknown.
U.N.: Gaza vote
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly urged Israel and the Palestinians Thursday to investigate alleged war crimes during last winter's conflict in Gaza and raised the possibility of Security Council action if they don't. The 192-member world body approved an Arab-drafted resolution by a vote of 114-18, with 44 abstentions and 16 countries not voting. Supporters insisted there must be accountability — especially from Israel — during the conflict in which 13 Israelis and almost 1,400 Palestinians were killed. Israel rejected the resolution as "deeply flawed, one-sided and prejudiced" while the United States called it "unbalanced and biased."
Mexico: 10 arrested












