 Questions have multiplied since police began their investigation into the weekend shooting of a disbarred lawyer and his wife, who lived on the same cul-de-sac as former President Clinton.Police said Tuesday that 58-year-old Carlos Perez-Olivo’s story of a mysterious roadside ambush that killed his wife and left him wounded is “unusual-sounding,” and have not ruled out the possibility he had something to do with the shootings.No arrests have been made and police said the lawyer was permitted to leave Northern Westchester Hospital late Monday. He apparently returned to his home on a Chappaqua cul-de-sac. Visitors arrived steadily at the home. A man who answered the door, Drew Stern, identified himself as a friend of the family and said a statement would be issued to the media but did not say when and he asked reporters to leave the property....
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 Journalist denies Colombian allegations of terrorism |
A correspondent for Telesur, the channel majority owned by the Venezuelan government of President Hugo Chavez, and his employer strongly denied Tuesday allegations he had a role in a series of bombings in northern Colombia. Rights groups also called for the release reporter Freddy Munoz, who was due to testify Tuesday on the allegations. Colombian authorities arrested Munoz on Sunday, accusing him of participating in attacks on the electrical infrastructure in and around the coastal cities of Barranquilla and Cartagena. No one was killed in the explosions which occurred in 2002. A spokesman for the federal prosecutor's office said initial indications were that the attacks were carried out by the 37th Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, better known as the FARC. Munoz, a Colombian national, said in a note published on Telesur's Web site that he believes he was detained because of his reporting critical of U.S. policy...
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/11/21/journalist.colombia.ap/index.html?eref=rss_world
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Editor - 12:29:00 11-22-06
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| Tomb find reveals pre-Inca city |
Archaeologists working in northern Peru have discovered a spectacular tomb complex about 1,000 years old. The complex contains at least 20 tombs, and dates from the pre-Inca Sican era. Among the discoveries are 12 "tumis", ceremonial knives which scientists have not been able to study in a burial site before, as well as ceramics and masks. The Sican culture flourished from approximately AD 800-1300, one of several metalworking societies which succumbed to drought and conquest. Archaeologists working on the project say the find will help them understand details of the culture. "It is a religious city, a sacred settlement, and at each excavation site is a cemetery," Izumi Shimada told Peru's El Comercio newspaper. "That tells us that Sican was a very organised society." Professor Shimada, based at the University of Southern Illinois in the US, has been excavating Sican sites for a quarter of a century. The latest dig was performed in conjunction with the Sican National Museum...
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Editor - 12:27:00 11-22-06
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| Pollution turns Yellow River red |
A stretch of China's Yellow River turned red for the second time in a month because of pollution, media says. Waste water from a heating station near the city of Lanzhou contaminated 1km of the river, the country's second longest, according to Xinhua. A similar spill occurred in the same area at the end of October. China has some of the world's most polluted rivers, and is accused of overlooking the protection of the environment to develop its economy. Local environmental officials said the red plume of water "very possibly" came from a station that provides heating for Lanzhou residents. The plant had added a red dye to its water to prevent people from siphoning off the hot water from the pipes it used, officials were quoted by Chinese media as saying. Tests found the dye was not toxic, and the spill lasted for around an hour, Xinhua news agency reports. ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6172360.stm
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Editor - 12:21:00 11-22-06
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| Mistrial in US of Colombia rebel |
A US court trying Colombian rebel leader Ricardo Palmera has declared a mistrial as the jury was not able to agree on a verdict. Mr Palmera, of the left-wing Farc rebel group, was on trial in Washington on hostage-taking and terrorism charges. He was accused of plotting to hold three US citizens hostage after their plane crashed in Colombia in 2003. Jurors heard five weeks of testimony but said after a single day of deliberation that they could not agree. "We remain unable to reach a unanimous verdict on any of the counts and see no prospect of doing so," the jurors wrote in a message to the judge. The judge had already sent the jury back to deliberate twice after they failed to come to a decision. ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6171404.stm
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| THE KREMLIN MINUTES Diary of a Collapsing Superpower |
In the fall of 1990, as Germany celebrated reunification, an enormous tragedy was taking shape in Moscow. The historical turning point can be reconstructed from previously undisclosed minutes of Politburo meetings published in Russia this month. And Mikhail Gorbachev may finally get the historical recognition he deserves. Editor's Note: Seventeen years ago, the Berlin Wall fell, and two years later the Soviet Union broke apart. More than 1,400 minutes published earlier this month in Russia from meetings that took place behind the closed doors of the Politburo in Moscow read like a thriller from the highest levels of the Kremlin. They reveal Mikhail Gorbachev as a party chief who had to fight bitterly for his reforms and ultimately lost his battle. But in doing so, he changed the course of history and helped bring an end to the Cold War. Christian Neef, 54, who served as DER SPIEGEL's correspondent in Moscow until 1996, explains why the "Kremlin minutes" may polish ...
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