http://www.allvoices.com/ en-us Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has hailed the Colombian rescue operation that freed former politician Ingrid Betancourt and 14 others, including three American defense contractors. Speaking the day after the successful mission, President Chavez Thu allvoices / news event http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/788876-colombia-betancourt Conflict & Tragedy Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:54:20 -0500 Anti-terror police arrested 10 suspected Muslim militants and seized a large cache of high-powered bombs, foiling a major attack targeting Westerners in the Indonesian capital, police and media reports said Thursday. Among those detained was a Singap allvoices / news event http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/784379-indonesia-nabs Conflict & Tragedy Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:02:14 -0500 IST(3/7/2008) A suspected Islamist extremist said to have "direct links" with al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has been freed on bail in Britain after more than seven years in jail, court officials said on Thursday...Firebrand preacher Abu Qatada, onc allvoices / news event http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/785400-freed-suspect Conflict & Tragedy Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:45:04 -0500 The bodies of Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez, both 23, were found in a house in southeast London after neighbors heard an explosion and saw a man running from the scene. The Metropolitan Police said the biochemistry students working on a DNA projec allvoices / news event http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/790133-gagged-horrendous Conflict & Tragedy Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:06:00 -0500 Jean-Pierre Bemba, who fled DR Congo last year, was detained in Belgium in May. He will face trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Mr Bemba is accused over atrocities allegedly committed by his forces in the Central African Republic in 200 allvoices / news event http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/786970-bemba-drc Conflict & Tragedy Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:34:41 -0500 The brother of former EastEnders actress Brooke Kinsella died in the early hours of Sunday morning after a fight in a north London bar spilled out on to the streets. Ben was stabbed a number of times during the incident on York Way, Islington, before allvoices / news event http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/789237-kinsella-murder Conflict & Tragedy Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:59:00 -0500 Officers were called to Beulah Crescent in Thornton Heath just before 2pm today after reports of a knife attack. A Met Police spokesman said he had been stabbed more than once but that the weapon had not yet been identified The victim was taken to a allvoices / news event http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/789187-stab-victim Conflict & Tragedy Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:51:50 -0500 A car bomb exploded near one of Baghdad's major hospitals on Thursday, killing four people and wounding 10, security officials said. "Four people have been killed and 10 others wounded," an interior ministry official said. The explosion took place in allvoices / news event http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/788661-baghdad-bomb Conflict & Tragedy Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:22:21 -0500 British Member of Parliament Keith Vaz Thursday described as "bizarre" a claim that he was offered a peerage or knighthood in return for backing the government on a controversial anti-terrorism bill last month. "Why on earth would anyone want to give allvoices / news event http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/787168-vaz-bribe Conflict & Tragedy Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:39:47 -0500 Minister Kevin Rudd's plan for an Asia Pacific Community is dead in the water, says a respected regional academic and former Singaporean diplomat...Rajaratnam School of International Studies, and one-time ambassador to Jakarta, told a conference in C allvoices / news event http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/783806-rudd-vision Conflict & Tragedy Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:37:23 -0500 At least 10 people were killed and several injured when a landslide triggered by heavy rains buried their hillside homes in southeast Bangladesh on Thursday, officials and witnesses said. The incident occurred at Teknaf in Cox's Bazar district, 450 k allvoices / news event http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/783876-bangladesh-landslides Conflict & Tragedy Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:43:48 -0500 Five more women soon pressed charges as well, but the statute of limitations made two of the cases impossible to prosecute, and the final indictment included various sexual assault and fraud charges against six women. allvoices / news event http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/787026-israel-actor Conflict & Tragedy Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:36:09 -0500 Jordanian boy has been charged with murder after his 23-year-old sister was stabbed to death in an apparent "honour" killing. The unnamed suspect allegedly stabbed his sister 10 times in the heart yesterday in a village in the northeastern province o allvoices / news event http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/786653-jordan-honour Conflict & Tragedy Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:27:28 -0500 N.H.— A former Massachusetts medical examiner who was charged in connection with a crematory scandal in New Hampshire has pleaded guilty to fraud and falsifying evidence. Katherine Weider was sentenced Thursday to one year home confinement and was or allvoices / news event http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/790505-examiner-sentenced Conflict & Tragedy Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:45:03 -0500 2pm UK, Thursday July 03, 2008 A man has been charged with the murder of a former soldier who was attacked after asking a group of people to stop swearing on a bus. Stan Dixon died while returning from Hartlepool Stan Dixon, 60, suffered a serious he allvoices / news event http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/785323-man-charged Conflict & Tragedy Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:35:29 -0500 A raging fire at a warehouse has led authorities to evacuate a four-block area of nearby homes in Elyria, Ohio, 23 miles west of Cleveland. The fire reported just after 1:30 a.m. today sent flames shooting hundreds of feet into the air at the former allvoices / news event http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/786163-elyria-evacuations Conflict & Tragedy Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:03:54 -0500 The White House said Thursday that dangerous detainees at Guantanomo Bay could end up walking Main Street U.S.A...The ruling, which gave all detainees the right to petition federal judges for immediate release, has intensified discussions within the allvoices / news event http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/789752-detainees-ruling Conflict & Tragedy Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:10:58 -0500 Thirteen people are feared dead after their kayaks hit a dam under construction on the Sava River in Slovenia Thursday, state television reported. The mayor of the local town was reportedly among the victims. Police spokesman Drago Menegalija confirm allvoices / news event http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/789518-slovenia-kayaks Conflict & Tragedy Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:37:51 -0500 Authorities say road rage led to a fatal shooting on a South Florida roadway. The Broward Sheriff's Office says the shooting followed an argument over a "very minor crash" Thursday in Oakland Park. According to a sheriff's report, 28-year-old David F allvoices / news event http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/789563-oakland-park Conflict & Tragedy Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:44:16 -0500 Those odds subsided after the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), the co-ordinated view of US intelligence agencies, concluded in December that Iran had halted its weapons programme in 2003. But now the betting is back on. As Tehran has accelerat allvoices / news event http://www.allvoices.com/newsevents/789219-iran-signals Conflict & Tragedy Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:58:20 -0500