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Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt, shown at a military base near Paris July 4, 2008. (UPI Photo/ David Silpa) | TORONTO, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt says she is convinced the guerrillas who held her in the Colombian jungle for more than six years clearly hated her. Betancourt told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. in an exclusive interview scheduled for broadcast Monday night that she represented everything her captors despised. "I was a politician. They hated politicians," she said. "I was a person with some... [read full story]
Two men have been charged with the murder of a 19-year-old man who was was stabbed and then run over in north London. Michael McCarthy, 19, was killed near his home in Yoakley Road, Stoke Newington on Thursday. Mustafa Demirtas...
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