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In this April 6, 2012 photo, officials stand next to dolphin carcasses on the shore of Pimentel Beach in Chiclayo, Peru. Scientists and Peruvian officials are investigating a mass die-off of hundreds of dolphins along the South American country's coast. (AP Photo/Nestor Salvatierra)

800-plus dolphins found dead off Peruvian coast

Last updated Friday, April 20, 2012 - 11:20am

LIMA, Peru -- As many as 877 dolphins washed up on the coast of northern Peru, the country's Deputy Environment Minister Gabriel Quijandria Acosta said Friday.

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Joran van der Sloot, left, enters the courtroom for the continuation of his murder trial at San Pedro prison in Lima, Peru, Wednesday Jan. 11, 2012. The Dutch citizen sought and received more time to decide how to plead when his trial opened on Jan. 6 for the murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores on May 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro)

Van der Sloot pleads guilty to killing Peru woman

Last updated Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - 10:54am

LIMA, Peru -- Joran van der Sloot pleaded guilty on Wednesday to the 2010 murder of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman he met at a Lima casino who was killed five years to the day of the unsolved disappearance in Aruba of an American teen in which he remains the main suspect.

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