Thursday, August 27, 2009

Daily Headlines: August 27, 2009

* U.S.: South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford remains defiant in the face of increased pressure to resign over his affair with an Argentine mistress and possibly using state funds illegally to travel to see her.

* Costa Rica: Search parties continue to look for a Chicago man who has been lost for two weeks while hiking in Costa Rica.

* Mexico: Six men were arrested in Tijuana trying to steal parts of the U.S.-Mexico border fence to sell for scrap metal.

* Colombia: Were leftist guerillas or right-wing paramilitaries behind the massacre of twelve members of the indigenous Awa yesterday?

Image- AP
Online Sources- MSNBC, UPI, Guardian UK, CNN

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