5 Hostages Found Dead in Mumbai Jewish Center
11.28.08
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The bodies of five hostages have been found in the Mumbai Jewish center, an Israeli Foreign Ministry official said today. Police say they are in the final stages of wrapping up the operation at the center. At least 146 people, including eight foreigners, have been killed since gunmen sailed into Mumbai on boats on Wednesday and attacked nine locations.
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Tsvangirai Returns to Zimbabwe Despite Plot Fears
05.24.08
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Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai returned to Zimbabwe Saturday for the first time since leaving the country shortly after the controversial March 29 election. Tsvangirai, who really won the election earlier this year, returned despite what his party said was a plot by the country's military to assassinate him and other party leaders. He has escaped assassination 3 times earlier in his career.
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Police were out in force, manning roadblocks on the route from Harare to the airport, but they did not intervene as Tsvangirai left the terminal after flying in from South Africa.
Officials of his Movement for Democratic Change said he would first be briefed by other party leaders, and was scheduled to address reporters in the afternoon.
"I feel quite safe," Tsvangirai had told The Associated Press on the way to the Johannesburg, South Africa, airport hours earlier, traveling in a four-car convoy with flashing lights and wailing sirens. He had called off a return flight a week before, after his party said he was the target of a military assassination plot. Tsvangirai has survived at least three assassination attempts.