Colombia confirms death of missing militia boss
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Carlos Castano, who in the   1990s organized right-wing militias into a criminal army that   terrorized Colombia, was murdered in 2004, police said on   Monday after DNA tests proved they had recovered his remains.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Three Colombian police   officers were killed when their helicopter crashed as it   escorted airplanes fumigating fields of illegal coca leaves   used to make cocaine, authorities said on Friday.
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shot dead a militiaman loyal to his ousted predecessor after a weekend of political violence. intelligence chief Juma Adil told Reuters on Tuesday.
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Investigators have exhumed the remains of 14 victims of paramilitary violence buried in a municipal cemetery in northern Colombia without proper funerals, authorities said Tuesday.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - The chief of international  relations for Colombia's biggest leftist rebel group, who once  sought support from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, was arrested  after a months-long manhunt, police said on Wednesday.
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Between 21 and 35 right-wing paramilitaries were killed in combat with the Colombian army, and Marxist rebels killed the mayor of a small town, authorities said Saturday.
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By FRANK BAJAK  BOGOTA, Colombia - A political ally of President Alvaro Uribe is under investigation for allegedly doing business with illegal right-wing militias.
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Suspected communist rebels shot dead the leader of a breakaway guerrilla group that entered into a peace agreement with the Philippine government, police said on Monday.
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Left-wing Colombian guerrillas will surrender the bodies of 11 kidnapped local lawmakers over the weekend, President Alvaro Uribe said on Thursday, after two months of bitter speculation over how the men were killed.
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Marxist rebels have killed a Catholic priest who disappeared earlier this month on a pastoral mission in a rebel-controlled jungle region in western Colombia, a church official said Friday.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Between 21 and 35 right-wing  paramilitaries were killed in combat with the Colombian army,  and Marxist rebels killed the mayor of a small town,  authorities said Saturday.
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Reports say Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's successor as al-Qaeda in Iraq leader has been killed.
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A man suspected of involvement in the  abduction of three U.N. workers in Afghanistan died in custody  last week and authorities are investigating whether he was  tortured to death, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday.
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Rebels killed a mayor and a former town council member after seizing them at a roadblock in eastern Colombia as they headed to a meeting on how to confront violence in the area, authorities said Saturday.
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The Colombian defence minister announces the killing of one of the leaders of the left-wing Farc guerrilla group.
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A patrol of the Venezuelan armed forces were ambushed by presumed Colombian guerrillas in the border zone with Colombia, leaving seven dead, local press reported Saturday.
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An Islamic militant wanted in connection with the murder of American journalist Daniel Pear was killed in a shootout with police, according to Pakistani authorities on Wednesday, who also announced the arrest of a suspect in the