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Human-rights researchers are sifting through tens of millions of documents, searching for evidence of the Guatemalan police's role in murders and disappearances during the country's "dirty war" in the 1970s and 1980s.

Federal drug agents and the U.S. Coast Guard arrest Mexican drug lord Javier Arellano-Felix, alleged to be one of the world's most notorious drug traffickers. The suspected leader of a violent gang that is responsible for digging tunnels to smuggle narcotics into the U.S., Arellano-Felix is apprehended while fishing off the coast of Baja, California.

Hezbollah rockets continue to wreak havoc across northern Israel, killing at least three Israeli civilians and wounding dozens. Nearby in southern Lebanon, at least three Israeli soldiers died in ground fighting with Hezbollah guerrillas.

The International Committee of the Red Cross in Damascus is overwhelmed with aid that it can't deliver it to the Lebanese people who need it. Syria is also facing problems coping with the flood of refugees from Lebanon.

The Syrian government and people have welcomed Lebanese evacuees from the Israel-Hezbollah fighting with open arms, despite a strained relationship between the two countries. For the moment, their differences has been forgotten as Lebanese stream into Damascus.

An anti-tank mine in Iraq blew up Sgt. Joe Fowler's Humvee, leaving him with broken bones and burns over 50 percent of his body. His recovery at the Pentagon's only burn treatment center is painful and frustrating. But he has goals: to stay strong for his family, and to get back on his mountain bike.

A cozy huddle of friends and customers gathers in the early evening at D.G. Wills Book Shop. For an hour or two, you can imagine yourself visiting a Dickensian bookseller in old London.

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Blackwater, a private security firm, wants to provide peacekeeping services in Darfur. Private contractors have been hired to provide security in Iraq and other places, with mixed results. But Blackwater says it could work under multinational supervision and help reduce civilian suffering.

Federal officials have started sealing up the most sophisticated cross border tunnel ever discovered along the U-S Mexico border. KPBS Reporter Erik Anderson has details.