A young woman said her father had sold her to De Jesus two years ago in her Mexican hometown. De Jesus paid 30,000 pesos for her, which is just over $2,000.
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RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's Carnival revelry drew to a close on Wednesday with the anxiously awaited award for the best parade in Rio de Janeiro going to a show featuring skiers dressed like Batman and a pregnant drum queen.
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A car belonging to Germany's Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere was stolen in the eastern city of Dresden, police said Thursday.
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BERLIN - A car belonging to Germany's Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere was stolen in the eastern city of Dresden, police said Thursday.
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Mexican quintet Los Pikadientes de Caborca was booked to play a show in Mexico's Jalisco state last year when the band's manager, Jose Juan Segura, ran into an acquaintance.
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Paris police advised people against going to the Champ de Mars area Sunday evening where a mass cocktail party organised over the internet is due to take place.
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Reuters - A large fire swept through Rio de Janeiro's Carnival center on Monday, destroying thousands of costumes and floats and throwing preparations for Brazil's annual festival of hedonism into chaos.
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Gertrude Baines, a 114-year-old California resident, will likely be crowned the world's oldest woman, according to the organization that keeps track of such honors. The previous oldest woman was Maria de Jesus, who died this week in Portugal at age 115, Guinness World Records said.
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Authorities said a 75-year-old woman drove her car through the front of an Atlanta liquor store on Monday — and it's not the first time. Constance Chapman tells police her brakes went out Monday afternoon while she was trying to park at Green's package store along Ponce de Leon Avenue, a major thoroughfare in the city's Midtown neighborhood.
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Police said an ice cream vendor threatened another vendor with a knife and told her to get off his turf. The man acknowledged talking with the woman Sunday in a cul-de-sac but denied making threats. Police found a knife in his truck and arrested him for investigation of assault.
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