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CAMBODIA-KHMER ROUGE. Former Khmer Rouge appeals detention.

G-8-BUSH AND FRIENDS. Bush's final G-8 may be harmonious.

AUSTRALIA-DOWNER. Former FM Downer quits politics.

RWANDA-MEMORIAL TOURS. Visitors can tour genocide sites.

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COLOMBIA-HOSTAGES

BOGOTA, Colombia _ Ingrid Betancourt woke up, as always, at 4 a.m., for another numbing day in her seventh year as a rebel captive. Then she was told to pack _ helicopters were coming. The sound always gave her dread, but this time, she and 14 other hostages _ including three Americans _ were lifted to freedom in an audaciously "perfect" operation involving military spies who tricked the rebels into handing over their prize hostages without firing a shot. Moved. By Frank Bajak.

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WITH: US-COLOMBIA-US HOSTAGES

INDONESIA-TERROR ARRESTS

JAKARTA, Indonesia _ Anti-terror police arrest 10 suspected Muslim militants and seize a large cache of high-powered bombs, foiling a major attack targeting Westerners in the Indonesian capital. Moved. By Niniek Karmini. AP Photos.

CAMBODIA-KHMER ROUGE

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia _ Cambodia's genocide tribunal hears an emotional plea from the former Khmer Rouge foreign minister, who asked to be moved from his pretrial confinement in its jail because of ill health. Moved. By Ker Munthit. AP Photos.

US-AFGHANISTAN

WASHINGTON _ Grappling with a record death toll in an overshadowed war, President George W. Bush promises to send more U.S. troops into Afghanistan by year's end. He concedes that June was a "tough month" in the nearly 7-year-old war. Moved. By Ben Feller. AP Photos.

G-8-BUSH AND FRIENDS

WASHINGTON _ The issues are as difficult as ever, but the conditions are likely to be more conducive to agreement as President George W. Bush attends his eighth and final economic summit of industrial democracies. The annual Group of Eight meeting, which begins Monday on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, comes amid economic turmoil in most of the member nations, as well as political uncertainty for many of the leaders. Moved. By Tom Raum.

WITH: GERMANY-CLIMATE SCORECARDS

MONGOLIA-ELECTION

ULAN BATOR, Mongolia _ Smoke hangs in the air as people sweep up in Mongolia's capital on the second day of a state of emergency imposed after at least five people died in rioting sparked by allegations of election fraud. Moved. By Christopher Bodeen. AP Photos.

US-ELECTIONS

WASHINGTON _ John McCain denies claims by a Republican colleague that he had roughed up an associate of Nicaragua's leftist president two decades ago. Barack Obama promotes public service programs for Americans. Moved. AP Photos.

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AUSTRALIA-DOWNER

ADELAIDE, Australia _ Alexander Downer announces he is quitting Australian politics following a career as the country's longest-serving foreign minister and one of its highest-profile leaders of the past decade. Moved. AP Photo.

ARGENTINA-DIRTY WAR SUSPECT

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina _ An ex-navy captain has been charged with the 1977 kidnapping of a prominent journalist during Argentina's former dictatorship, but the Supreme Court denies a request to extradite a former president to face similar charges in Germany. Moved. By Nicholas Kusnetz.

RWANDA-MEMORIAL TOURS

KIGALI, Rwanda _ Visiting places famous for death is nothing new. You can tour the Nazi concentration camps of Dachau in Germany and Auschwitz in Poland, or the killing fields of Cheong Euk, Cambodia. Now Rwanda has become another destination where visitors can bear witness to the mass slaughter of innocents. Macabre memorial sites scattered throughout the country mark the horrific genocide in 1994 when extremist Hutus slaughtered more than 500,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus. By Jody Kurash. AP Photos.

BUSINESS & FINANCE:

OIL PRICES

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia _ Oil soars to a record above US$145 a barrel in Asia, fueled by concerns over a larger-than-expected drop in U.S. stockpiles and the threat of conflict with Iran. Developing. By Eileen Eng. AP Graphic.

CHINA-CURRENCY CONTROLS

BEIJING _ Beijing is tightening financial controls on trade to curb multibillion-dollar flows of speculative "hot money" into China that regulators say could fuel inflation, the government announces. Moved. By Joe McDonald.

JAPAN-MARKETS

TOKYO _ Japan's key stock index extends its sell-off to an 11th straight session _ its longest slide in 54 years. Moved.

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