Colombia Blows Up Stockpiled Land Mines
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Colombia's armed forces blew up 6,800 stockpiled land mines Sunday as President Alvaro Uribe, Queen Noor of Jordan and dozens of mine blast victims watched on large screens, launching an effort to eventually rid the country of the weapons.
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About 700,000 Colombians have taken part in nationwide protests against President Alvaro Uribe.
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The Mozambican government set itself a new five-year target on Friday to remove all the landmines that still litter the country, 15 years after its long-running civil war.
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Few PSAs are as harrowing as the new work by the Brooklyn Brothers for the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS), the organization devoted to ridding the world of landmines. One new spot, which you can see at www.stoplandmines.org, shows a bucolic afternoon gone haywire as a girl playing soccer steps on a mine, triggering a huge explosion and widespread panic. "If there were landmines here, would you stand for them anywhere?" asks onscreen copy.
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A volcano erupts in southern Colombia, prompting the evacuation of 8,000 residents of a nearby city.
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Attackers detonated a landmine near Mogadishu port on Friday, hours after two people were killed trying to bury another mine in the dangerous Somali capital, an official said.
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Communist rebels in the Philippines attack a large mining project majority owned by Xstrata.
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Colombia's president took over the country's airwaves Sunday to defend the military against reports soldiers were behind a string of bombings.
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Colombia and Venezuela are hit by floods and landslides that kill more than 86 and leave thousands homeless.
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Bolivia's president said Saturday the government should expropriate mines where private owners have not invested sufficiently, taking aim at the industry after clashes between rival bands of miners left at least 16 dead.
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Colombia's state oil company goes searching for investors -- in supermarkets, gyms and big-box stores
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A land mine killed five Colombian soldiers Wednesday after a patrol chasing leftist rebels stumbled in to a mine field, authorities said.
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The Colombian anti-narcotics police say that a record number of drug crops were sprayed during 2004.
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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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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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A state of emergency is declared in parts of Colombia where floods have killed at least 14 people, officials say.
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More than a thousand paramilitary fighters began demobilizing Friday in the remote jungles of Colombia, where the main road is marked by crosses, burned vehicles and blown-up bridges - the scars of a protracted and bitter battle between their right-wing faction and leftist rebels for control of the region's cocaine industry.