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Honduras complains about "threatening" El Salvador, Nicaragua boats

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduran President Porfirio Lobo on Thursday said he had complained to El Salvador and Nicaragua about the presence of "threatening" boats in a shared gulf that gives the nations access to the Pacific Ocean.Full story

Mennonite minister sentenced in international kidnapping case

(Reuters) - A Mennonite minister was sentenced in Vermont on Monday to more than two years in prison for helping a woman flee to Nicaragua with her daughter to evade court orders granting visitation rights to the woman's former lesbian partner. Full story

Hundreds evacuate from volcano in Nicaragua

  Some 300 families living on the flanks of the highest volcano in Nicaragua have been advised to leave after it began spewing hot gas and ash. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.

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A man collects water from the Las Canoas dam, north of the capital Managua
A man collects water from the Las Canoas dam, north of the capital Managua

A man collects water from the Las Canoas dam, some 59 km north of the capital Managua April 26, 2013. A large area of the dam has been dry since last February, as most of its water have been used by rice farmers for their crops, affecting around hundreds of peasants living in the area, according to

A man collects water from Las Canoas dam, north of the capital Managua
A man collects water from Las Canoas dam, north of the capital Managua

A man collects water from Las Canoas dam, some 59 km north of the capital Managua April 26, 2013. A large area of the dam has been dry since last February, as most of its water have been used by rice farmers for their crops, affecting around hundreds of peasants living in the area, according to loc

A calf drinks water on cracked ground at the Las Canoas dam, north of the capital Managua
A calf drinks water on cracked ground at the Las Canoas dam, north of the capital Managua

A calf drinks water on cracked ground at the Las Canoas dam, some 59 km north of the capital Managua April 26, 2013. A large area of the dam has been dry since last February, as most of its water have been used by rice farmers for their crops, affecting around hundreds of peasants living in the are

Eric Justin Toth of the U.S. is presented to the media at police headquarters building in Managua
Eric Justin Toth of the U.S. is presented to the media at police headquarters building in Managua

Eric Justin Toth of the U.S. is presented to the media at police headquarters building in Managua April 22, 2013. Toth, a former Washington schoolteacher on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list for alleged child pornography had been arrested in the Central American country of Nicaragua, a federal law enfo

Eric Justin Toth of the U.S. is escorted after a presentation to the media at police headquarters building in Managua
Eric Justin Toth of the U.S. is escorted after a presentation to the media at police headquarters building in Managua

Eric Justin Toth of the U.S. is escorted after a presentation to the media at police headquarters building in Managua April 22, 2013. Toth, a former Washington schoolteacher on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list for alleged child pornography had been arrested in the Central American country of Nicaragua