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As Robert Mugabe's grip on power has slipped, the thugs who carried out preelection terror in his name find themselves in the cross hairs of those they tormented.
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The revised plan calls for complete U.S. troop withdrawal by the end of 2011. Parliament factions who want immediate withdrawal and more U.S. concessions have doubts about the plan. >>
The Hong Kong-flagged cargo ship Delight and 25 people aboard are captured, just days after suspected Somali pirates commandeered the Saudi-owned oil tanker Sirius Star. >>
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Nur Hassan Hussein says the top priority is the reconciliation process, but progress is slow 'in an atmosphere of many problems.' >>
The demonstrators, angered over a plan to raze a city center in Longnan, burn cars and battle police with rocks, iron bars and axes. A Communist Party office is overrun and 60 officials are injured. >>
Forces will continue pursuing extremists in the east despite the brutal weather, says Gen. David McKiernan. >>
MEXICO UNDER SIEGE
Mexican federal agents and army troops are dispatched in a bid to rid the Tijuana police department of cops suspected of having links to drug traffickers. >>
Europe: Stem cells used to make windpipe / India: 21 Muslims tortured, rights group says / France: Dominique de Villepin charged in slander case >>
Though Esha Momeni is out on bail, her father says authorities have seized her passport. Momeni, who was researching her master's thesis in Iran, faces charges of undermining national security. >>
COLUMN ONE
The Iraqi capital's first commuter train is slow but steady through streets often tied up by checkpoints and bombings. Just beware the crossing cars, stone-throwing youths and meandering cows. >>
Dark clouds tumbled overhead on that afternoon 30 years ago, in the last hours of the congressman's mission deep in the jungle of Guyana. >>
A brazen attack far out at sea, on a huge tanker with a capacity of 2 million barrels, raises concerns about the regional menace. The pirates appeared to be steering the ship to Somalia. >>
Q & A
As Iraq's parliament plans to vote on a deal that would set Dec. 31, 2011, as the end date for U.S. occupation, The Times answers questions about the pact. >>
Tel Aviv police suspect a rival crime family is behind Yaakov Alperon's death. The Alperons have been locked in a dispute over a lucrative recycling business and have a laundry list of enemies. >>
France: Alleged ETA leader held / Peru: Man held with grenades / Brazil: Trader tries suicide at exchange / Australia: Navy gets 2-month holiday / South Africa: Teen pleads guilty to shootings >>
The alleged pyramid schemes have sparked disturbances in 12 states. Police are closing financial firms' offices and making arrests. >>
The long-negotiated security pact is expected to face opposition in parliament by lawmakers who see it as a sellout. Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr has threatened a renewed uprising. >>
Salafists, accused of being terrorists in other parts of the Arab world, are moving into the mainstream with the help of leading politician Saad Hariri in exchange for bolstering his religious base. >>
DISPATCH FROM LONDON
The U.S. Embassy is moving from north of the river to the south, crossing a social divide between old and new, between class and sass. >>
The oil giant says it already cleaned up its share of the mess in the Amazon region, but peasant farmers continue to suffer. >>
India: Tibetan exiles seek new ideas on dealing with China / Australia: Nonlethal whale research planned / Congo: Rebel leader agrees to U.N. peace talks / Mexico: 4 Scuba divers die during aqueduct m >>
Shipments out of Pakistan bound for U.S. and NATO forces have been suspended pending a review of security in the vulnerable Khyber Pass, near where Taliban fighters hijacked several transports. >>
Israel says it targeted militants preparing to fire a rocket amid fighting that threatens to unravel a 5-month-old cease-fire. Later, a rocket from Gaza lands near a home in southern Israel. >>
Few regions of the U.S. are immune to drug-trafficking organizations that have left a trail of death, kidnappings and other crimes. >>
ISLAM IN A NEW WORLD
Conservative Muslims may find it harder to rally opposition to a U.S. led by a multicultural, charismatic president. He could also inspire an Internet-based revolt. >>
Nouri Maliki had not publicly backed the deal to extend U.S. mandate. His support comes after the U.S. accepts key conditions, among them that troops leave Iraqi cities by next summer. >>
Aerial spraying is still the preferred method of coca eradication but the use of manual laborers is expanding. Many take the dangerous job because of good wages; some have more personal reasons. >>
COLUMN ONE
In an impoverished Tehran district, a hairdresser-turned-activist helps girls and women help themselves through books, health workshops and civic action. >>
A fuel shortage shuts down the electricity plant. Relief supplies also are blocked from entering the Gaza Strip, leaving a U.N. agency without food for the Palestinian territory's many needy families. >>
Although Vladimir Putin has left the presidency and become prime minister, there's no longer any question that he's more powerful than his handpicked successor, Dmitry Medvedev. >>
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