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Focuses on Colombia's fight against the drug trade. When the United States will decide whether to certify Colombia as a country that is taking sufficient steps to fight illegal drug trades; Steps taken by Colombia to convince the U.S. that it is doing enough; Colombia's President Ernesto Samper Pizano's allege involvement with drug traffickers.

Byline: Oliver Holmes in Jerusalem Benjamin Netanyahu has told judges he is innocent of corruption charges, as a high-profile trial against the Israeli prime minister resumed weeks before a national [...]

Byline: Jon Swaine in New York THE THREE women who were kidnapped and held captive for a decade in a house in Ohio have described their determination to lead ordinary [...]

(From AP Worldstream) Byline: GEIR MOULSON HIGHLIGHTS: Update: IRAQ. Mortars strike school, killing 5 schoolchildren, wounding 20. Update: PALESTINIANS-FIGHTING. West Bank militants snatch rival in brazen daylight raid. Update: SOMALIA. [...]

(From AP Worldstream) Byline: STEVE KARNOWSKI HIGHLIGHTS: Update: SADDAM TRIAL. Saddam trial hears from woman whose identity, voice kept secret. New: GERMANY-RICE. Rice pledges to fight terrorists; says U.S. does [...]

(From AP Worldstream) Byline: KWANG-TAE KIM HIGHLIGHTS: New: TORTURE POLL: Most living in eight countries allied with U.S. want nothing to do with secret interrogation of suspected terrorists. New: MALAYSIA-ELECTIONS: [...]

(From AP Worldstream) Byline: AMY FORLITI HIGHLIGHTS: Update: EU-TURKEY _ EU opens historic membership talks with Turkey. Update: US-BUS-SUPREME COURT _ Bush picks White House lawyer for Supreme Court. Update: [...]

Managua NICARAGUA -- MANAGUA Nicaraguan police have arrested a Sandinista army veteran in connection with the Feb. 17 slaying of former Contra leader Enrique Bermudez, a government spokeswoman said yesterday. [...]

President Fidel Castro, having made renunciation of Latin America's $360 billion foreign debt the subject of a personal crusade, is stoking the emotions of the issue by holding a conference […]

LEAD: In an annual speech that has become a kind of report to the Cuban nation, Fidel Castro asserted that Soviet military tactics in Angola almost caused a disaster for […]

LEAD: Thirty years ago today Cubans poured into the streets of Havana, cheering and honking car horns, to celebrate the collapse of a brutal dictatorship and the promise of a […]

LEAD: After three decades of mutual hostility, the United States and Cuba appear to be edging toward a wider range of contacts that some diplomats say may lead to somewhat […]