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former colonel and longtime Kagame ally in war who turned against him in peace, was found strangled in a room at Johannesburg's plush Michelangelo Towers hotel.
• A police statement said: "He was found in the hotel room dead on the bed. Preliminary investigations revealed that his neck (was) swollen. A towel with blood and a rope were found in the hotel room safe. There is a possibility that he might have been strangled."
• It said his body was found on Wednesday, New Year's Day. Congress coordinator Theogene Rudasingwa told The Associated Press in a telephone call from Washington that it is unclear if Karegeya was killed on Tuesday or Wednesday. He csaid Karegeya's death follows a pattern of assassinations ordered by Kagame.
• Kagame's government has vehemently denied such charges, though Rwandan exiles say British, U.S. and Belgian law enforcers have frequently warned them that their government is plotting to kill them.
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• DENVER (AP) -- Long lines and blustery winter weather greeted Colorado marijuana shoppers testing the nation's first legal recreational pot shops Wednesday.
• It was hard to tell from talking to the shoppers, however, that they had waited hours in snow and frigid wind.
• "It's a huge deal for me," said Andre Barr, a 34-year-old deliveryman who drove from Niles, Mich., to be part of the legal weed experiment. "This wait is nothing."
• The world was watching as Colorado unveiled the modern world's first fully legal marijuana industry -- no doctor's note required (as in 18 states and Washington, D.C.) and no unregulated production of the drug (as in the Netherlands). Uruguay has fully legalized pot but hasn't yet set up its system.
• Colorado had 24 shops open Wednesday, most of them in Denver, and aside from long lines and sporadic reports of shoppers cited for smoking pot in public, there were few problems.
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• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans enter 2014 with a profoundly negative view of their government, expressing little hope that elected officials can or will solve the na

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