Mexican and US health officials searched on Saturday for signs an outbreak of a new flu strain is spreading further, after it killed up to 68 people.
El Salvador’s former Marxist guerrillas finally won power through the ballot box after a tight election victory over their right-wing civil war foes.
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/ 6 November 2006
Nicaraguans voted in huge numbers for a new president on Sunday with former Marxist guerrilla Daniel Ortega close to returning to power despite opposition from the United States. Sixteen years after he was thrown out of office by voters tired of a civil war with US-backed Contra rebels, the mustachioed Sandinista leader was ahead of his conservative rivals.