Assassinations

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LOS ANGELES - The site where Sen.

JOHANNESBURG - Amnesty International says Equatorial Guinea has executed four alleged coup plotters in a matter of hours in what it calls a "pretense of justice." The main opposition party in the oil-rich but impoverished Central African nation described it as "political assassination." Amnesty International says the former military and government officials were abducted from neighboring Benin and held at a prison notorious for torture until they "confessed" to a February 2009 attack.

BEIRUT - Lebanon gave a U.N.

KABUL, Afghanistan - Insurgents assassinated an Afghan government official and a policeman Monday in western Afghanistan, and five civilians died when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb elsewhere in the west, officials said.