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6 hrs ago | Guardian Unlimited

Close ally of Colombia's president freed from jail - AP

A former senator close to President Alvaro Uribe was freed from prison on Wednesday, four months after his arrest on charges of colluding with far-right death squads.

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Alvaro Uribe, Prison

Tue Aug 19, 2008

Tooele Transcript Bulletin

Colombian priest takes over at St. Marguerite's

Father Hernando Diaz sits in the chapel of St. Marguerite's on Thursday. Diaz succeeded Father Matthew Wixted as pastor of the parish on Aug.

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Related Topix: World News, Joseph, UT, Richfield, UT, Life, Holidays, Lughnasadh, Roman Catholic Church, Religion

Daily News

'More roads won't solve traffic problem'

By Lindsay Dentlinger Building more roads and widening existing ones will never solve Cape Town's traffic crisis, a leading international expert advising the city on a bus rapid public transport plan, has ...

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Related Topix: South America, World News, South Africa

Mon Aug 18, 2008

New Jersey News

Alleged NJ drug lord arrested in Colombia

Colombian authorities have arrested a former Union County man suspected of leading of a notorious heroin-smuggling ring.

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Related Topix: Drugs, World News,

Sun Aug 17, 2008

hosted The Associated Press | The Associated Press

Uribe backers submit re-election vote signatures

Supporters of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe delivered more than 5 million signatures, hauled in three trucks, to election authorities Monday calling for a referendum on whether he should be allowed to run for a third consecutive term.

Uribe hasn't said if he will seek a third term or not, but his approval ratings have soared to above 80 percent following the military rescue of Ingrid Betancourt and three U.S. contractors from leftist guerrillas. The 56-year-old leader's surge in popularity has fueled hopes by his backers that he will seek to return to office.

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Related Topix: Alvaro Uribe, South America, World News, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election,

Sat Aug 16, 2008

Global Voices Online

Colombia: The Road to La Loma in Medellin

The road up to the La Loma neighborhood of Medell n, Colombia is built for cars, trucks and buses.

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Fri Aug 15, 2008

Reuters

Guerrilla bomb kills 7 in Colombian town

Seven people were killed and nearly 50 wounded in the most serious Colombian guerrilla attack this year when a bomb exploded in a small town as residents celebrated a festival, officials said on Friday.

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Explosion, Drugs, Alvaro Uribe

Guardian Unlimited

Venezuelan TV station Telesur accused of links to Colombian Farc guerillas

The Caracas-based TV channel, most of whose funding comes from the government of Hugo Chavez, was accused in May of faking the origin of a Farc video.

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Related Topix: Hugo Chavez, World News, Venezuela, Terrorism, Journalism, South America,

Wed Aug 13, 2008

The Dominion

Nasa communities in Colombia on Maximum Alert

The following was translated to English by La Chiva : ALERT: CAMPAIGN OF TERROR BEGINS AGAINST INDIGENOUS NASA IN CAUCA, COLOMBIA 11 August 2008 Earlier this afternoon, the Association of Indigenous Authorities ...

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Tue Aug 12, 2008

The Peninsula

Colombia mulls sending soldiers to Afghanistan

BOGOTA * Colombia may send soldiers to Afghanistan and attach them to Spanish forces already in the country, the head of the nation's armed forces said yesterday.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan

Mon Aug 11, 2008

hosted The Associated Press | The Associated Press

Switzerland, Colombia, end Red Cross logo dispute

Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey says Switzerland and Colombia have moved past a dispute over Colombia's use of the Red Cross logo.

Calmy-Rey, who arrived in Bogota on Sunday, says she has 'noted that the Colombian government has apologized' for a soldier wearing the Red Cross logo during the July 2 operation in which the Colombian army freed 15 rebel hostages.

The Colombian government said the soldier put on the logo during the operation as he became nervous about confronting armed rebels. A local television station released a video last week, however, showing the soldier wearing it from the start of the operation.

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Related Topix: Switzerland, Europe, World News, South America,

Inter Press Service

COLOMBIA: Video Raises Numerous Questions About Rescue Mission

"It is a serious matter that members of the armed forces clandestinely leaked news without coordination with their superiors," says a presidential communique issued in Colombia after a local TV station ...

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Alvaro Uribe, US Military, US Air Force

Sun Aug 10, 2008

WebWire

Easyfly Of Colombia Expands With Five More Jetstream 41S

EasyFly S.A. of Colombia has bought a further five Jetstream 41 regional turboprop airliners from BAE Systems Regional Aircraft to accelerate the second phase of its development plan to expand regional services ...

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Herndon, VA

Sat Aug 09, 2008

hosted The Associated Press | The Associated Press

NYC tries traffic-free urban playground

In Paris, they call it La Plage, or the beach. And in Bogota, Colombia, it's Ciclovia, or bikeway.

In New York, nearly seven miles of Manhattan became traffic-free for six hours Saturday, creating a weekend playground for bikers, walkers and loungers.

'Bellissimo!' declared Antonio de Lucia, a tourist from Caserta, Italy, who read about the event and decided to walk from his Chinatown hotel to a friend's Times Square restaurant _ with all his luggage. An hour into his hike, he was smiling as he sauntered up a stretch of Park Avenue awash in cyclists, pedestrians and in-line skaters. One man on a bicycle swooped down a sloped section of the avenue yelling 'whee!' at full voice.

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Related Topix: Colombia Travel, Travel, Italy, World News, New York, NY,

Prensa Latina

Colombia:Polemics Over Logo Use Continues

Bogota, Aug 6 The polemics on the illegal use of the Red Cross logo by Colombian military continued Wednesday with strong criticism.

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Related Topix: South America, World News

Fri Aug 08, 2008

Fausta's blog

Good news from Colombia: coke production down, business up

Naranjo, speaking on Thursday at an anti-drug summit, said that in 2002, when President Alvaro Uribe first took office, Colombia produced 90 percent of the world's cocaine - but that has dropped today to 54 ...

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Related Topix: Alvaro Uribe, Drugs, South America, World News, Immigration Reform

Thu Aug 07, 2008

WSYX

Uribe to ask US for longer trafficking sentences

Colombian President Alvaro Uribe says he wants the U.S. to be tougher on cocaine traffickers extradited from his nation.

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Related Topix: Alvaro Uribe, South America, World News, Drugs

Wed Aug 06, 2008

Raw Story

Colombian police thwart car bombings by FARC rebels

Colombian police thwarted two car bombings FARC rebels had planned for Bogota during Thursday's Independence Day celebrations, and arrested five rebels, officials said.

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Terrorism

XtraMSN Real Estate

Red Cross slams misuse of emblem in Betancourt release

The international Red Cross said Wednesday it deplored the apparent "deliberate misuse" of its emblem by Colombian forces during the liberation of hostage Ingrid Betancourt last month.

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Alvaro Uribe

Lincoln Tribune

Top Terrorist Indicted for His Role in Hostage-Taking of Americans

The three former hostages had been held in the Colombian jungle by the members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia for over five years, until they were rescued last month by Colombian military forces.

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Related Topix: Washington DC, Terrorism, South America, World News

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