“My life, my world is crumbling like a pack of cards right before me,” Jane Orobator told CNN in an emotional interview. “Samantha has never given me any cause to worry.” Over the course of a 90-minute interview with CNN, Orobator frequently broke down in tears. At one point, she collapsed to her knees and begged for her daughter’s release from prison in Laos, where she is charged with smuggling heroin.
Turnout in Indian voting tops 50 percentMore than half of the voters in the eight states participating Thursday in India’s general elections cast ballots for a new federal government, …Japan scales back search for missing profThree police officers continued to search Thursday for an American professor who disappeared on a small volcanic island in Japan.
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Five people, including a Briton and a Dane, were hurt Monday during the final day of the annual running of the bulls in Pamplona, officials said.
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