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...returning home with freshly dug sweet potatoes from her fields last October when she stepped into the most bitter event of her life. A deranged neighbor had abducted her 15-year-old son and was holding him ransom with a meat cleaver. His demands: $100 and a car. Fifty policemen came to the rescue?and then, Wang says, the dithering began. The abductor claimed to be related to a top cop, and, Wang says, "the officers spent all their time trying to figure out what kind of a relative he was." After a fruitless, 8-hr. standoff, the neighbor sliced...
...commander was found decapitated and quartered, his head, arms and legs stuffed in a sleeping bag. All weapons and ammunition had been taken. Only three soldiers survived. The attack, four days after the sixth anniversary of the Maoist rebellion, was the bloodiest to date: the rebels killed 141 soldiers, policemen and civilians, including Khadka, intelligence officer Lok Eaj Upreti and Upreti's wife. The Maoists butchered all three upper-caste Nepalis with...
...Emergency Parliament voted to extend another three-month state of emergency after rebels killed more than 140 troops and police in the deadliest-ever raids by Maoist insurgents. Barely five hours after the announcement, rebels raided a police post in the western Salyan district, killing at least 24 policemen...
...Packaged with the November issue of the glossy magazine was its One Week in September special edition. Page after page of stunning portraits - firefighters, steamfitters, doctors, policemen and flight attendants, all conveying emotion that air-brushed celebrities just can't. Where Vanity Fair goes, others follow...
...Philippine armed forces rout the fighters of a radical Islamist group known as Abu Sayyaf are stepping onto sometimes treacherous turf. That much was made clear Wednesday in neighboring Jolo province, where three Marines of the Philippine army were killed in a firefight - by Philippine police. (The guilty policemen were former guerrillas of the Moro National Liberation Front, a Muslim secessionist group that had been granted autonomous control of four provinces under a 1996 peace agreement.) The incident followed a clash Tuesday in which 18 people were killed during a rally in support of former governor Nur Misauri, recently jailed...