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France ready to fete Betancourt’s long-awaited return

July 4, 2008
Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt embraces her son Lorenzo, right, and daughter Mélanie in Bogota on Thursday. Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt embraces her son Lorenzo, right, and daughter Mélanie in Bogota on Thursday. (Ricardo Mazalan/Associated Press)

Rescued hostage Ingrid Betancourt was to get a hero’s welcome upon return home to France on Friday after being held captive for six years in the Colombian jungle.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy was to personally greet Betancourt’s plane at its landing at about 10 a.m. ET at the Villacoublay military base, outside Paris. Betancourt and her family were then to be brought to the lavish Élysée Palace, the official presidential residence in the heart of the city.

Pope Benedict XVI also expressed interest Friday in meeting with Betancourt as soon as possible. He sent a telegram to Betancourt expressing his happiness for her release, according to the Vatican.more

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Tribunal Struggles With Civil Party Role

Chum Mey, one of the few survivors of Tuol Sleng prison, is one of the civil parties participating in Khmer Rouge tribunal proceedings.
Chum Mey, one of the few survivors of Tuol Sleng prison, is also one of the civil parties participating in Khmer Rouge tribunal proceedings.
As the pre-trial detention hearing of jailed Khmer Rouge leader Ieng Sary came to a close this week, participants found themselves at odds over how much victim participation through civil parties was too much.

Prior to one session of the hearings, the Pre-Trial Chamber judges ruled that one individual, Seng Theary, a Cambodian-American lawyer whose parents died under the Khmer Rouge, would not be allowed to participate directly. Pre-trial judges ruled that for the Ieng Sary hearings, civil party victims of the regime would only be allowed to express themselves through lawyers.

That ruling has raised questions over how much participation should be allowed in the future.

The UN-Cambodia tribunal was designed with a unique element: the presence of civil parties, who participate alongside prosecutors and the defense, representing their own cases but also speaking as a voice of the victims. But following the hearings Thursday, lawyers told reporters there was a limit.more

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Bush says US to send more troops to Afghanistan

July 3, 2008

President Bush makes remarks about the troubled housing market at the Family Services Agency on Tuesday, July 1, 2008 in North Little Rock, Ark. President Bush makes remarks about the troubled housing market at the Family Services Agency on Tuesday, July 1, 2008 in North Little Rock

WASHINGTON—Grappling with a record death toll in an overshadowed war, President Bush promised Wednesday to send more U.S. troops into Afghanistan by year’s end. He conceded that June was a "tough month" in the nearly seven-year-old war.

In fact, it was the deadliest month for U.S. troops in Afghanistan since the conflict began.

"One reason why there have been more deaths is because our troops are taking the fight to a tough enemy, an enemy who doesn’t like our presence there because they don’t like the idea of America denying safe haven (to terrorists)," Bush told reporters. "Of course there’s going to be resistance."more

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Fugitive hedge-fund swindler Sam Israel arrested

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NEW YORK (AP) — Fugitive hedge-fund swindler Samuel Israel turned himself to federal authorities in Massachusetts after nearly a month on the lam, the U.S. attorney’s office said Wednesday.

Israel turned himself into Southwick, Mass., police between 9:15 and 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, said Suzanne Anderson, police Chief Mark Krynicki’s assistant. She said he was being processed at Southwick Police headquarters and referred all further questions to federal authorities.more

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McCain aide takes over day-to-day campaign duties

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. and his wife Cindy McCain attend a press conference in Cartagena, Colombia, Wednesday, July 2, 2008.

WASHINGTON (AP) — John McCain put a top adviser in control of day-to-day campaign operations Wednesday after weeks of private concerns among Republicans that the GOP presidential campaign had not made the transition for the general election.more

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Study Finds Benefit in ‘Magic Mushrooms

July 2, 2008

In 2002, at a Johns Hopkins University laboratory, a business consultant named Dede Osborn took a psychedelic drug as part of a research project.

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She felt like she was taking off. She saw colors. Then it felt like her heart was ripping open.

But she called the experience joyful as well as painful, and says that it has helped her to this day.

"I feel more centered in who I am and what I’m doing," said Osborn, now 66, of Providence, R.I. "I don’t seem to have those self-doubts like I used to have. I feel much more grounded (and feel that) we are all connected."

Scientists reported Tuesday that when they surveyed volunteers 14 months after they took the drug, most said they were still feeling and behaving better because of the experience.more

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