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The wife of a candidate for governor and about 30 others were abducted Monday morning in the southern Philippines — with at least 21 of them later killed, army officials said.
The woman was on her way to file her husband’s nomination papers, when...
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Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on Friday declared that his country will not retaliate with war threats against Venezuela, his only aim being to defeat terrorism in...
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Venezuela has blown up two pedestrian bridges on its border with Colombia in the latest sign of deteriorating relations between the Andean neighbours.
Soldiers...
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Colombia’s fight against drug trafficking is failing and needs new proposals and UN guidance, declared former Colombian Foreign Minister Rodrigo Pardo...
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A Venezuelan commander contends Colombia wrongly detained four of his soldiers last week along the border separating the South American nations.
National Guard Gen....
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The chief of Colombia’s secret police says a mob assaulted three of its agents as they tried to arrest a suspect with alleged guerrilla ties.
DAS intelligence...
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Colombian stocks and bonds will fall if market-friendly President Alvaro Uribe is barred by the courts from running for a third term next year, a ruling that would...
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Venezuela on Thursday warned that the United States is aiming for a bigger military role in South America through an agreement with Colombia for expanded use of its...
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The referendum needed for a second re-election of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe is on the verge of collapse after the country’s Electoral Council ruled that...
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Venezuela and Colombia differences won’t reach extreme situations and both neighbors will end up finding a way out through dialogue, says Nelson Jobim, the...
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Seven FARC rebels and four government soldiers were killed in separate engagements in southwestern and eastern Colombia, the military said.
All of the guerrilla losses...
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Brazil and the U.S. urged Colombia and Venezuela on Tuesday to talk out their differences after Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez ordered his military to prepare for a...
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President Hugo Chavez on Sunday ordered Venezuela’s military to prepare for a possible armed conflict with Colombia, saying his country’s soldiers should be...
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Colombian opposition groups have reacted angrily after details of a controversial military deal with the US were made public.
Under the 10-year deal, the US military...
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Fredys Villanueva has abandoned his native Colombia for neighboring Venezuela. But he’s not quite like the hundreds of thousands of Colombians who have fled their...
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Two international bridges between Venezuela and Colombia remained closed, as Venezuelan authorities searched for three people and arrested a fourth suspected in the...
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From Nariño to Bogota to Magdalena, armed death squads are once again imposing a brutal brand of justice with worrying tolerance from the authorities. Alvaro Uribe...
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In a private ceremony, the American ambassador, William Brownfield, and three Colombian ministers signed an agreement on Friday to expand Washington’s military...
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Colombia’s National Planning Council claimed Tuesday that the fight against drugs is lost and the current government’s ‘Democratic Security’...
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Colombia is doing better than Venezuela, but still has a long way to go before the country can proudly say it is guaranteeing a freedom of press, prominent journalist...
made popular Oct 27 2009
The bullet-ridden bodies of 10 members of a Colombian football team, who were kidnapped two weeks ago, have been found on the Venezuelan border.
One member of the team...
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If the Iranian regime is trying to send Obama hints that it is not interested in a compromise over its nuclear program, the regime has found a new way to do so:
Three...
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Russian crime gangs on the Costa del Sol are injecting kidnap victims with what they claim is an experimental KGB virus to terrify them into paying ransoms.
In the...
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President Alan García struggled over the weekend to defuse a protest by Amazon indigenous groups that left more than 50 police and Indians dead.
The demonstrations...
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A Singaporean is among those taken hostage during coordinated attacks across India’s commercial capital of Mumbai, the foreign ministry said Thursday.“The...
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Both the White House and President-elect Barack Obama condemned today’s series of coordinated attacks in Mumbai, India, the first major terrorist incident since...
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While the world reacts in anger and grief at the terror attacks in Mumbai, it’s vitally important to recognize the environment this has occurred in. Failure to do so...
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President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani have “strongly” deplored the attacks in India’s financial capital Mumbai that killed 82...
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A heartbreaking exchange took place today (July 16) between Israel and Hezbollah. Five terrorists, Samir Kuntar, the murderer of a four year old girl among them, were...
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Yesterday, July 3, 15 hostages including the most famous, Ingrid Betancourt, were ‘rescued’ from the FARC. The hostages were transported to a planned location in...
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Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages held for years by FARC rebels are finally free. President Alvaro Uribe’s U.S.-backed campaign seems...
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The day before yesterday (Sunday, June 29) Israeli cabinet approved an unusual deal: the bodies of two Israeli soldiers in exchange for Samir Kuntar and several other...
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Only those who cherish liberty know its value. The 21 Korean hostages holed up in Afghanistan cry for liberty, their family members are crying for their liberation,...
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In this photo released by the Saba, Yemen’s official news agency, two of the three freed German hostages Julia Thielebein , left, and her father Heinrich Thielebein, appear at the interior ministry where the German hostages were received after their...
