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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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Recently, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez tried to leverage his ties with FARC to free onetime Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and other hostages, hoping that securing the release of such a high-profile hostage would earn brownie points for his Bolivarian regime. (His intervention led to the January release of Betancourt’s running mate, Clara Rojas.) Chavez […]
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I was a bit disoriented all day yesterday — Friday — since the holiday felt so much like a Saturday (in fact a neighbor had invited us, by e-mail, to a little get-together on “Saturday, July 4″).Â
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1:22pm UK, Saturday July 05, 2008
Secret footage showing how Robert Mugabe’s supporters rigged Zimbawe’s elections has been uncovered.
The footage shows vote rigging in Harare
A prison guard working in Harare central jail used a hidden camera to capture images of people being forced to fill in their ballot papers in front of Zanu-PF officials.
Having passed the […]
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Stuart allowed Rebecca to cut his hair this afternoon, despite knowing that she had never had any practice.
As soon as he suggested the idea, Bex ran to Lisa and begged to be allowed to borrow her hairdressing scissors.
Mario warned that the scissors were sharp, and suggested that Bex should be especially careful when handling them.
“You […]
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More than 1,000 people marched in northern Japan today to protest an upcoming summit of the top industrialized countries, and police arrested four protesters after a brief scuffle.
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Colombian military intelligence agents posing as aid workers and a media crew flew to the jungle aboard a white helicopter, staging a mock humanitarian mission that rebels were told would ferry their hostages to another camp for talks on a prisoner swap.
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For the second time in two weeks, Ralph Nader has questioned Barack Obama for what he called his determination to “talk white” — because he’s apparently irked that the Democrat has failed to raise issues of poverty and joblessness of concern to African Americans.
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In Colombia, Betancourt freed, the rebels embarrassingly weakened
Javier Casella/Colombian Defense Ministry/Handout, via Reuters
The Colombian-French politician Ingrid Betancourt (center, flanked by uniformed military personnel), and other hostages liberated from their rebel captors, arrived yesterday at a military airport in Bogotá
“What I’m feeling now is something very close to paradise.”
So declared Ingrid Betancourt, fresh from her […]
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A pesar de los asesinatos de quienes combaten el tráfico de drogas ilegales, la influencia corruptora de los dineros de la droga, la sensación de que en algunas partes del paÃs los narcotraficantes tienen la última palabra, México no es Colombia, aunque los dos son comparados con frecuencia.
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LONDON — John McCain would kick Russia out of the Group of Eight economic powers that meet in Japan this week. But this is no time to think small. The G-8 leaders themselves should declare surrender and disband their high-profile huddle on the state of the world.
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Most overseas storage sites for U.S. nuclear weapons, particularly in Europe, need substantial improvements in physical security measures and the personnel who guard the weapons, according to a newly available Air Force report.
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On Tuesday, the White House announced that President Bush was planning to visit South Korea on Aug. 5 and 6.
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CASILDA, Cuba — Tiny flames jump and sputter in the night here, suspended above the roadbed as if held by an invisible wand.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, July 3 — On their first full day of freedom, the hostages rescued from guerrilla captivity in Colombia were reunited with relatives, as new details emerged Thursday about their captors and the conditions under which they were held.
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MEXICO CITY, July 3 — Sen. John McCain’s trip to Colombia and Mexico this week made one thing clear: The shape of the United States’ relationship with Latin America will hinge on the outcome of the 2008 election.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe — President Robert Mugabe summoned his top security officials to a government training center near his rural home in central Zimbabwe on the afternoon of March 30. In a voice barely audible at first, he informed the leaders of the state security apparatus that had enforced his rule for 28 years that he […]
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FARGO, N.D., July 3 — Sen. Barack Obama raised the possibility of slowing a promised gradual, 16-month withdrawal from Iraq if he is elected president, saying that Thursday he will consult with military commanders on an upcoming trip to the region and “continue to refine” his proposals.
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EL FASHER, Sudan — Nearly a year after its creation, a joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping mission to Darfur is struggling, with fewer than half the soldiers promised, broken-down equipment, government obstacles, and what commanders say are the unrealistically high expectations of a world that has failed to support them.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt was given a hero’s welcome on Friday in France, where President Nicolas Sarkozy had made her release a foreign policy priority and thousands had campaigned for her freedom for years.
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