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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 2 — Several Pakistani politicians and local media outlets have started to sharply criticize the government’s new offensive against Islamist insurgents, as paramilitary troops on Wednesday continued to press operations in the country’s northwest.
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NEBAJ, Guatemala — A decade after the conclusion of the long civil war that ravaged this Central American nation, Guatemalans are literally trying to dig up their past.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, July 3 — A day after being rescued from captivity, Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt was reunited with her two children in Bogota for the first time in six years.
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MEXICO CITY, July 1 — Videos showing Mexican police learning torture methods appeared on the Internet this week as the country, soon to receive hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. anti-drug aid, is seeking to improve its human rights record.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, July 2 — Continuing to press the themes of values, faith and patriotism, Sen. Barack Obama exhorted Americans on Wednesday “to step into the strong currents of history” and volunteer for service to their country, pledging to dramatically expand opportunities for those accepting his challenge.
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The nation’s top military officer said yesterday that more U.S. troops are needed in Afghanistan to tamp down an increasingly violent insurgency, but that the Pentagon does not have sufficient forces to send because they are committed to the war in Iraq.
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Colombia’s military yesterday rescued the most prominent of several hundred hostages held by Marxist rebels, a group of 15 that included the French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt and three American Defense Department contractors who had been imprisoned in remote jungle camps since 2003.
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - Ex-hostage Ingrid Betancourt, rescued from leftist rebels in a stunning Colombian military operation after six years in captivity, was reunited with her children on Thursday.
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By Alister Bull
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employers cut workers from their payrolls for a sixth straight month in June for the longest losing streak for the labor market since 2002, and a jump in first-time claims for jobless benefits points to more weakness ahead.
The Labor Department said […]
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French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt has hailed as a “miracle” her release from more than six years of captivity in the Colombian jungle.
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Betancourt, 46, was abducted in February 2002. The Americans were captured a year later when their drug surveillance plane went down in rebel-held jungle. Some of the others had been held for a dozen years.
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Leona Helmsley, the New York hotelier and property magnate who bequeathed $12m (€7.5m) to her dog Trouble, has left billions more to the canine world.
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Polish President Lech Kaczynski said last night he would only sign the Lisbon Treaty if Ireland also ratified it.
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“One reason why there have been more deaths is because our troops are taking the fight to a tough enemy, an enemy who doesn’t like our presence there because they don’t like the idea of America denying safe haven (to terrorists),” Bush told reporters. “Of course there’s going to be resistance.”
Bush said it was a […]
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Two high-flying French exchange students found dead in their burnt-out flat in Britain may have been tied up and tortured before being horrifically murdered.
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Australian scammers are sending hoax text messages supposedly from a hitman who says he will kill you unless you pay up within two days.
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The trial of Michel Fourniret — who reportedly enlisted his wife’s help to seize virgin girls to rape and kill — began March 27, 2008, with Fourniet refusing to speak unless court went into closed session and refusing to let the press take his photograph. The Times of London reported the gory details:
“The couple resembled […]
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The trial of Michel Fourniret — who reportedly enlisted his wife’s help to seize virgin girls to rape and kill — began March 27, 2008, with Fourniet refusing to speak unless court went into closed session and refusing to let the press take his photograph. The Times of London reported the gory details:
“The couple resembled […]
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Israelis are accustomed to being on the lookout for suicide bombers. But today they were attacked by a suicide bulldozer driver, who plowed over cars and tipped over a bus on a busy downtown stretch — killing three and injuring dozens before he was shot to death. From the Jerusalem Post:
“A half-dozen cars were flattened […]
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Mary Schmich, John Williams and I discuss Mary’s column today concerning Chicago’s nomination as America’s most regulated city.
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