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• Freed Betancourt makes radio broadcast to jungle hostages

  - 2008-07-06

  PARIS AFP — Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt sent a radio message Sunday to all hostages still in the grips of FARC rebels, as she recovered in Paris from her six-year ordeal, her sister said. Freed from Marxist rebels in Colombia's jungle Wednesday, Betancourt went on Colombian radio to tell...

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• Son of Hollywood icon Marlon Brando dies: reports

  - 2008-01-26

  LOS ANGELES AFP — Christian Brando, the tormented son of late Hollywood acting legend Marlon Brando, has died in Los Angeles from pneumonia, his family and lawyers told US media Saturday. He was 49. Brando, who made headlines in 1990 for shooting dead his sister Cheyenne's lover Dag Drollet,...

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• Jennifer Hudson, Queen Latifah head 'Secret Life of Bees'

  - 2007-12-20

  LOS ANGELES AFP — Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson has signed to star in a movie adaptation of Sue Monk Kidd's acclaimed 2003 novel "The Secret Life of Bees," entertainment industry press reported Thursday. Hudson, who won an Oscar earlier this year for "Dreamgirls", will play the friend of the film's...

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• 79-year-old Polish fighter to see family for first time in 64 years

  - 2007-03-14

  LONDON AFP — A 79-year-old Polish man who moved to Britain during the final days of World War II is preparing to fly to Krakow to see his family for the first time in 64 years, media reported. Aleks Szustakiewicz was taken to a Nazi slave labour camp on...

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• World champion Dovy fined 500 euros in doping case

  - 2007-03-01

  PERPIGNAN, France AFP — Lueyi Dovy, who was part of the French team which won the 2005 athletics world championships 4x100m relay gold, was on Thursday fined 500 euros after being found guilty of a doping charge. Prosecutors had wanted the athlete handed a six-month suspended prison sentence after...

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• Spain's Princess Letizia resumes duties after sister's death

  - 2007-02-14

  MADRID AFP — Spain's Princess Letizia, wife to heir to the throne Prince Felipe de Bourbon, resumed her official duties, one week after the death of her younger sister Erika Ortiz. Letizia, dressed in black, visited the new Madrid headquarters of the Cervantes Institute, which is charged with promoting...

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• Rainy royal goodbye in Spain

  - 2007-02-08

  MADRID AFP — Members of Spain's royal family paid a tearful goodbye to Erika Ortiz, younger sister of Spain's Princess Letizia Ortiz, who died a day earlier aged 31. Fine arts graduate Erika Ortiz, the mother of a six-year-old girl, was widely reported to have taken her own life...

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• Shilpa–bashing scares Big Brother sponsor

  - 2007-01-16

  LONDON AFP — Alleged bullying and racist abuse of glamorous Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty on "Celebrity Big Brother" may leave the British reality television programme without its big sponsor, the Times has reported. Britain's media watchdog Ofcom is probing thousands of complaints related to charges of racist bullying towards Shetty,...

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• Sister of ex-Colombia president murdered in kidnapping

  - 2006-04-28

  BOGOTA AFP — The sister of former Colombian president and Organization of American States chief Cesar Gaviria was murdered during a kidnapping attempt, President Alvaro Uribe said. Liliana Gaviria's body was found in an industrial area a few kilometers miles from her home near Pereira, 340 kilometers (210 miles)...

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• Queen was 'saddened and disappointed' at Diana funeral tribute

  - 2006-03-16

  LONDON AFP — Britain's Queen Elizabeth II was said to have been "disappointed" and "saddened" by the oration delivered by the brother of Princess Diana at her 1997 funeral. Writer Gyles Brandreth, a former Conservative member of parliament who has written a number of biographies of the British royal...

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