Villagers in a rebel-held area of Sierra Leone risked their lives to save a group of British and New Zealand soldiers who were so exhausted from days in the bush that they were hallucinating and barely able to walk. British passport holders who live in Zimbabwe and have dual nationality are to be stripped of their Zimbabwean citizenship in the Government's latest attack on the white community. The former Japanese prime minister, Mr Keizo Obuchi, died yesterday after failing to recover from a massive stroke that felled him six weeks ago. New York's Mayor, Mr Rudolph Giuliani, has cancelled several campaign appearances to ponder whether he should drop his high-profile race against Mrs Hillary Clinton for the United States Senate. A leading contender to succeed the Pope has astounded theologians by insisting that poverty is a virtue - but not for the Catholic Church.
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