Published: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:19:29 GMT
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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- The plan was nothing if not audacious: A turncoat persuades rebels to bring together their most prized hostages and march them 90 miles through Colombia's wilderness. A month later, disguised commandos primed with acting lessons land in a helicopter and trick the rebels into handing them over....
Published: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:23:15 GMT
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BOGOTA, Colombia (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....
Published: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:06:29 GMT
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BAGHDAD (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....
Published: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:50:40 GMT
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JERUSALEM (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....
Published: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:06:59 GMT
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- More than 200 mainland Chinese tourists arrived in Taiwan on Friday on the first regular commercial flight in nearly six decades, a historic move aimed at further easing tensions between the old foes....
Published: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:29:59 GMT
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (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....
Published: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:29:05 GMT
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JERUSALEM (AP) -- Saudi Arabia has invited an Israeli rabbi to an interfaith conference in Spain, potentially the first step in wider contacts between the kingdom and Israel, the rabbi told The Associated Press on Thursday....
Published: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:16:35 GMT
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TOKYO (AP) -- The Group of Eight nations, holding their annual summit in Japan starting Monday, have always been a club for the world's biggest and brightest economies. Now a growing chorus is saying it's time the clubhouse doors swing open to some newcomers....
Published: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:21:17 GMT
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Not so long ago, the U.S. enjoyed something akin to a mythical status in Poland. Ronald Reagan was a hero, the dollar was king and Washington was a trusted guardian against Russia....
Published: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:29:25 GMT
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QUEBEC CITY (AP) -- U.N. officials decided Thursday to retain the eastern German city of Dresden as a World Heritage Site for now despite earlier warnings that the construction of a bridge endangered its status....
