Colombian hostages say life grew more dire
(AP)
03.07.2008, 21:23:07
 AP - A meal was rice and beans. Bed was the ground under a patched plastic tarp. They bathed in rivers, and when they weren't chained by the neck to trees, they were forced on long marches to new hideouts under the jungle canopy. |
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Iraqi PM to parade progress on trip
(AP)
03.07.2008, 21:06:27
 AP - Iraq's prime minister plans trips to Europe and the Persian Gulf this month, apparently hoping improved security at home will pay dividends in greater international support — including from a country that did not back the U.S. invasion. |
Freed hostage Ingrid Betancourt reunites with children
(AP)
03.07.2008, 19:34:08
 AP - Former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt embraced her children for the first time in six years Thursday, saying the thought of them helped her stay alive until a daring rescue plucked her and 14 other hostages from the jungle. |
After attack, Israeli Jews fear for security
(AP)
03.07.2008, 18:50:34
 AP - A day after a Palestinian construction worker's deadly rampage in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Thursday called for reviving the practice of demolishing the homes of attackers' families, and his chief deputy proposed cutting some Arab neighborhoods off from the rest of the city. |
200 fearful Mugabe foes seek refuge at US Embassy
(AP)
03.07.2008, 19:29:53
 AP - Some 200 opposition supporters crowded outside the U.S. Embassy in Zimbabwe on Thursday, appealing for protection amid new reports of violence aimed at dissenters against the heavy-handed rule of President Robert Mugabe. |
U.S. trade court rules against sex-bias claim
(Reuters)
03.07.2008, 21:51:12
Reuters - A U.S. trade court on Thursday
rejected an importer's claim that differing tariff rates for
men's gloves amounted to unconstitutional sex discrimination,
in a case closely watched by the fashion industry. |
Iran says 4 missing Iranians alive in Israel
(AP)
03.07.2008, 19:56:29
 AP - An Iranian diplomat said Thursday that four Iranians who disappeared in Lebanon in 1982 are alive in Israel and called for their release. |
Puerto Rico police rescue 181 animals
(AP)
03.07.2008, 21:38:05
AP - Police say they rescued 181 dogs, cats and birds from a farm in southern Puerto Rico where they were found sick and undernourished in dirty cages. |
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