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Stories for January 24th 2006

• Tuesday, January 24th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Pinochet's Family has been arrested for Tax Evasion

  A judge in Chile has charged Lucia Hiriart, the wife of former dictator Augusto Pinochet, and four of their children, with fraud over millions of dollars held in secret bank accounts abroad.

• Tuesday, January 24th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Canada Conservatives win election

  Canada's opposition Conservatives were heading for a narrow victory in Monday's national election, ending 12 years of Liberal rule, major television networks said.

• Tuesday, January 24th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Zero corruption, zero bureaucracy Pte. Morales said to his new Cabinet

  Bolivia's new president, Evo Morales, has named union leaders and fellow Indians to his first cabinet with a mission to eradicate corruption and end neo-liberal policies.

• Tuesday, January 24th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Blockage harms Kirchner's thaw plan

  Five trucks that were headed for one of the two paper pulp mills under construction in the Uruguayan town of Fray Bentos were blocked yesterday by Argentine protesters who oppose the plants for environmental reasons.