The Democratic Party's national convention goes into its second day in Boston today (Tuesday), after an opening session dominated by harsh criticism of President Bush's policies.
A court in Vietnam has sentenced three people to death for smuggling heroin into the country from Laos.
Police in Cambodia have released two journalists and a human rights worker arrested Sunday while investigating the plight of ethnic Montagnards in the country.
The U.S. military in iraq says insurgents fired several mortars in central Baghdad today (Tuesday), killing an Iraqi civilian and wounding 14 coalition troops.
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