| (EFE).- The Honduran armed forces acknowledged Wednesday that 22 RPG-7 grenade launchers were stolen from an armory in 2010. By
itself, the launcher "does not represent a lethal danger," the military
said in a statement, explaining that the weapon is not usable without a
sight and a warhead.
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| Washington, Feb 8 (EFE).- Two Hispanic sisters from Presidio, Texas,
have had their efforts and their inventiveness at designing rockets
recognized by being invited to participate in the White House Science
Fair, which is sponsored by President Barack Obama. Janet and Ana
Karen Nieto are following in the footsteps of older brother Hilario by
deciding to devote their efforts to science, thus responding to the
great obsession their parents have had ever since they immigrated to the
United States from Mexico, namely that their children study hard to get
ahead.
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| Mexico City, Feb 8 (EFE).- Mexico's wind power sector is playing an
expanding role in the global development of that renewable energy
source, having just achieved the milestone of 1,000 megawatts of
installed generating capacity, a sector leader said Wednesday. The
president of the Mexican Wind Energy Association, or AMDEE, Leopoldo
Rodriguez, told Efe in an interview that that figure is significant
because it represents 2 percent of the country's total power generating
capacity.
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| Santo Domingo, Feb 8 (EFE).- The death toll from the sinking over the
weekend of a small boat carrying migrants from the Dominican Republic to
Puerto Rico has risen to 43, with the search for the missing
continuing, a navy commander told Efe Wednesday. "I have 18 bodies on land," navy eastern region commander Capt. Hector Ramon Mendez said by telephone.
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