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Death stalked Betancourt's captivity in Colombia

BOGOTA, July 4, 2008 (Reuters) — Ingrid Betancourt began each day in captivity at 4 a.m. -- cold and depressed but awake in the dark waiting to hear her mother's words of encouragement over the radio. ...  > full story

Mongolia cleans up as capital under uneasy calm

ULAN BATOR, July 3, 2008 (Reuters) — Mongolian officials cleared away debris left by a night of deadly riots as parliament convened an extraordinary session on Thursday to decide how to move forward after violence over alleged election fraud. ...  > full story

Four men found decapitated as Mexico drug war rages

MEXICO CITY, July 2, 2008 (Reuters) — The severed heads of four men were found dumped on a Mexican street on Wednesday with a message accusing a drug gang kingpin of treachery, police said. ...  > full story

Cairo's gated compounds show rich-poor gulf

PALM HILLS, Egypt, July 2, 2008 (Reuters) — The four-wheel-drives outside the terracotta villas include a Lexus and a Porsche, and under the shade of the palms and the bright red poinciana trees men in liveried overalls are buffing them to a shine. ...  > full story

Freed Sudan terror suspect angry at bombers, Britain

KHARTOUM, July 2, 2008 (Reuters) — One minute, Omer Almagboul says, he and his fellow Sudanese flatmate were lazing at their student flat in England, recovering from a big night out. The next, their lives changed for ever. ...  > full story

Cuba to Juba: south Sudanese doctors come home

JUBA, Sudan, July 2, 2008 (Reuters) — They left as children and teenagers, crossing the border between dry southern Sudan and Ethiopia before being transported half a world away to the green strangeness of Cuba's Isla de la Juventud. ...  > full story

Canadian abortion crusader says he deserves award

TORONTO, July 2, 2008 (Reuters) — Henry Morgentaler, the doctor who led the fight to legalize abortion in Canada two decades ago, said on Wednesday he was proud to be receiving his country's highest civilian award, an honor condemned by anti-abortion advocates and hailed by his supporters. ...  > full story

Medvedev vows new tone to policy after Putin

MOSCOW, July 2, 2008 (Reuters) — Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday his presidency would have a different tone from his predecessor and mentor Vladimir Putin's and hinted the Kremlin might consider easing its complete dominance over domestic politics. ...  > full story

India government woos regional party to stay in power

NEW DELHI, July 2, 2008 (Reuters) — India's government tried to woo a regional party on Wednesday and secure a parliamentary majority amid signs its communist allies would withdraw their support to protest a nuclear deal with the United States. ...  > full story

German men sentenced for making women sex slaves

BERLIN, July 2, 2008 (Reuters) — A German court sentenced a pair of middle-aged men to more than 12 years in prison on Wednesday for sexually abusing and torturing two young women they held captive for several weeks -- part of the time in a dog kennel. ...  > full story
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