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...five months, more than 100 hostages from nearly 20 countries have been seized in Iraq. In some cases they were freed. Seven truck drivers abducted in July were released by their captors last week after a ransom of $500,000 was paid by their employer, the Kuwait and Gulf Link Transport Company. But a group calling itself the Army of Ansar al-Sunna announced last week that it had executed 12 hostages from Nepal abducted in August, accusing the country's leadership of assisting U.S. forces in Iraq. But French journalists had been largely spared. "The few times French journalists...
...shoes and cell phone. A onetime race-car driver who famously lost his way in a 1982 rally across the Sahara, causing his Iron Lady mother to weep, Thatcher has had what Margaret Thatcher's authorized biographer describes as a "chiaroscuro business career." He was accused of having links to the international arms trade, allegedly profiting from a multi-billion dollar deal with Saudi Arabia. In 1987, he married Diane Burgdorf, the daughter of a wealthy Texan; the couple moved from Texas to South Africa in 1995. Ron Wheeldon, a partner at the South African law firm representing Thatcher, denies...
...INDICATORS Rising Interest Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group sought to scupper a merger agreement between rival banks UFJ Holdings and Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group (MTFG) with a $29 billion bid for UFJ. It said it would consider SMFG's offer, but would still link up with MTFG, creating the world's largest bank...
...other aid in exchange for nuclear disarmament. The bill, however, specifies that the human rights of North Koreans should be "a key element in future negotiations." Diplomats participating in the six-nation talks?which include South Korea and China, a Pyongyang ally?have so far been careful not to link human rights to disarmament, because North Korea's representatives would probably storm out. Nevertheless, some American politicians find the U.S. bargaining position increasingly unconscionable. "Are we prepared to tell the North Korean people to give up their dreams of freedom because, in the interest of the status...
...other places with other cats are devising similar plans to stitch together patches of wilderness with corridors to provide havens for big cats seeking prey or a mate. In the Americas, Rabinowitz of the WCS has proposed a 2,000-mile-long chain of public and private lands to link the disparate populations of jaguars. It would extend from Mexico through Central America to northern Argentina. Jaguars have lost half their habitat in the past century, and much that remains has been fragmented by logging and ranching. Experts have identified 51 conservation areas in 16 countries that they deem essential...