Colombia blows up 7,000 land mines
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Colombia destroyed around 7,000 land mines on Sunday, in efforts to implement the Ottawa Convention that bans the use of antipersonnel mines, according to local reports.
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Colombian soldiers killed 5 rebels in a gun battle as the army broke up an extortion scheme in which the guerrillas demanded protection money from a cousin of former President Cesar Gaviria, authorities said on Friday.
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Sexual violence is being used to terrorise entire communities caught in Colombia's conflict, Amnesty says.
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Separatists are suspected of bombing a crowded market, a tea plantation and other sites yesterday, killing seven people in a second day of explosions and gun attacks that have
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The Galeras volcano in southern Colombia erupted on Sunday, spraying rocks and starting short-lived forest fires, but no injuries were reported, the government said.
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Seven Venezuelans, including six soldiers, were killed near the border with Colombia, and Venezuelan authorities suspect that Colombian rebels could be behind the shootings, an official said late Saturday.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia on Thursday seized  hundreds of drug stores across the country suspected of money  laundering for the Cali cocaine cartel, in the biggest property  seizure in Colombia's history.
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Police said Sunday they found a cache of explosives in the coastal city of Cartagena that rebels planned to use to assassinate President Alvaro Uribe.
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A plane carrying 59 people skidded off a wet runway and into the Caribbean Sea in Colombia, causing minor injuries to seven, aviation officials said.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombian Marxist rebels  bombarded a jungle Navy base with home-made missiles before  dawn on Tuesday, killing 14 marines and wounding 25 others, the  Navy said.
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BOGOTA -- Colombian rebels released a video showing seven kidnapped police officers and soldiers -- some of whom have spent nearly a decade in captivity -- pleading for the government and rebels to negotiate their freedom.
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Communist rebels in the Philippines attack a large mining project majority owned by Xstrata.
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More than 500 paramilitaries lay down their weapons as part of a peace process with the Colombian government.
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A wave of bombings in Colombia's most violent city wounded 23 people late Friday, and marines defused another two bombs Saturday. Authorities blamed the bombings on rebels seeking revenge for the killing of a regional guerrilla commander.
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Seven people die and others are injured in a warehose explosion in Burgos, northern Spain.
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An explosion at a coal mine Saturday in remote northeast Colombia buried at least 31 miners in two tunnels, a rescue official said.
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Left-wing Farc rebels in Colombia have killed 17 soldiers in an ambush the north-east of the country, the army says.