Arrests reported in Saddam execution video
Iraqi authorities said two guards and a supervisor who ran Saddam Hussein’s hanging were arrested after an unauthorized video surfaced. Investigators probe infiltrators linked to an Arab broadcaster or other outsiders who taunted Saddam as he died.
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Baghdad
Iraq
Saddam Hussein
Saddam
U.S
William B. Caldwell
Leutenant
Caldwell
Mowaffak al-Rubaie
Investi
al-Rubaie
CNN
Al-Jazeera
Sami al-Askeri
Nouri al-Maliki
Justice Ministry
Ouja
Soldiers and police join Calderon war on drug gangs
Soldiers and federal police moved into Tijuana with helicopters and boats as part of Operation Tijuan a to crack down on drug gangs. About 3,300 troops are slated to operate nationwide, with local police stations checked for corruption and weapons. The campaign follows prior forces sent to Michoacan and faces doubts about effectiveness amid ongoing violence.
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Tijuana
Mexico
Felipe Calderon
San Diego
United States
Calderon
Michoacan
Apatzingan
Jorge Hank Rhon
Vicente Fox
Video shows kidnapped security contractors in Iraq
Four Americans and an Austrian abducted in November in southern Iraq appeared in a brief video believed recorded nearly two weeks earlier and delivered to AP. The hostages, Crescent Security Group contractors, spoke separately, saying they were being treated well. Names included John R Young from Missouri and Jon Cote of New York, with others identified as Paul Johnson Reuben, Bert Nussbaumer, and Josh Munz. The video circulated as authorities confirmed its authenticity.
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Baghdad
Lraq
Iraq
Associated Press
Crescent Security
Kuwait
Safwan
John R Young
Kansas City
Missouri
Jon Cote
Buffalo
N.Y
Lou Finter
National Islamic Resistance
Furkan Brigades
Basra
Paul Johnson Reuben
Josh Munz
Redding
Calif
Nussbaumer
Foreign Ministry
Germany Birth Aid Aims to Lift Lagging Population
Berlin parents face new Elterngeld benefits as Germany seeks to boost births. The plan replaces a flat 400 dollar monthly aid and pays two thirds of net wages up to 2375 dollars, with 12 months per parent and 14 months if both share. Germany's birth rate fell to 8.5 per thousand in 2004, the lowest in Europe aside from Vatican City.
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Berlin
Julia Gotschlich
Germany
Europe
Federal Statistics Agency
France
Sweden
Vatican City
Britain
Gotschlich
Inka Angelina
Auguste-Viktoria Hospital
Klaus Grunert
British diplomat named UN humanitarian chief and Mexican environmentalist as reform chief
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki moon appointed Sir John Holmes a British diplomat as undersecretary-general for political affairs and emergency relief coordinator. Alicia Barcena Ibarra, a Mexican environmentalist, will become undersecretary-general for management. Barcena previously served as Annan era deputy chief of staff and Mexico's vice minister of environment. Holmes has long diplomatic experience but no direct humanitarian background. Britain praised the picks as key for UN reform and crisis leadership.
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United Nations
Ban Kimoon
U.N
John Holmes
Norway
Jan Egeland
Alicia Barcena Ibarra
Christopher Burnham
Economic Commission For
Latin America
the Caribbean
Mexico
Barcena
Michele Montas
Ban
Montas
Holmes
Britain
France
Moscow
India
Portugal
John Major
Tony Blair
Margaret Beckett
Egeland
Associated Press
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Maliki
Teft
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Angelina Gotschlich
Auguste-Victoria-Clinic
Brazil
Celso Luiz Nunes Amorim
Ban Ki-moon
New York
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