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Colombia rescue hinged on rebel disarray, payback
BOGOTA, Colombia -- 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. (Updated 6:19 p.m. PT)
Puerto Rico police rescue 181 animals
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- 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. (Updated 2:38 p.m. PT)
A look at past rescue missions
Some rescue missions around the world, both failed and successful, before Wednesday's operation that freed 15 hostages in Colombia: (Updated 2:24 p.m. PT)
Colombian hostages say life grew more dire
BOGOTA, Colombia -- 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. (Updated 2:23 p.m. PT)
Slow, painful task: identifying Guatemalan dead
COCOP, Guatemala -- Guatemala's 36-year civil war cost some 200,000 lives, mostly of Mayan Indians caught between government forces and rebels. Twelve years after peace was signed, forensic anthropologists are still hunting for the missing. (Updated 12:26 p.m. PT)
US denies instigating July 4 protests in Cuba
HAVANA -- A spokesman for the U.S. mission here on Thursday denied Cuba's charge that American diplomats were instigating opposition protests linked to American independence day. (Updated 11:47 a.m. PT)
Bulgaria army depot explodes near Sofia
SOFIA, Bulgaria -- A series of powerful explosions erupted Thursday at two army ammunition depots near Sofia, shattering windows in hundreds of buildings, spewing smoke and debris into the sky and forcing Bulgaria's main airport to shut down. (Updated 8:18 a.m. PT)
4 decapitated bodies found on Mexican city street
MEXICO CITY -- Four decapitated bodies were found on a street in the Mexican city of Culiacan, blocks away from their severed heads. (Updated 7:21 a.m. PT)
Freed hostage Ingrid Betancourt embraces children
BOGOTA, Colombia -- The children of rescued hostage Ingrid Betancourt are embracing their mother for the first time in six years. (Updated 6:42 a.m. PT)
 | WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 2008 |
- Venezuela 1Q oil income rises 80 percent
- Ex-hostage Betancourt describes rescue, gratitude
- Contractors: Longest-held US hostages
- French president says freed hostage in good health
- Key dates in kidnappings of politician, Americans
- Prince William's ship makes major cocaine bust
- Anti-Chavez Venezuelan general is released
- Weather around the world
| TUESDAY, JULY 1, 2008 |
- Police 'torture' videos cause uproar in Mexico
- Boris weakens in Pacific far off Mexico
- Anti-Castro militant pardon overturned
- Police find 20 Cubans at Mexico home
- Chavez: Agreement near on Sidor takeover
- 39 US missionaries robbed in Jamaica
- Peru, Bolivia leaders not so neighborly
- Chavez says US fleet a regional threat
- Chavez: EU migration rules 'barbaric'
- Chile moves people from path of volcano lava
| MONDAY, JUNE 30, 2008 |
- Venezuela priests open pro-Chavez church
- Mercosur urges regional economic aid
- Mexican club owner charged in stampede
- Venezuela TV punished for 'Simpsons' run
- UN official says Gitmo trials unfair
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