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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Thousands of Colombians took to the streets across the country and overseas on Monday in a huge protest against FARC guerrillas and their kidnapping of scores of hostages held captive for years in hidden jungle camps.
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Two rival mine groups fought Thursday with guns and dynamite over access to one of South America's richest tin mines, leaving nine dead and at least 40 injured, the country's vice president said.
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Suspected rebels ambushed an army patrol, exploded a car bomb in the capital and another bomb in Colombia's southwest Monday, killing at least 18 people in a wave of attacks a week before the presidential inauguration.
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Highway bandits set fire to a bus during a botched robbery near Colombia's capital, burning to death 10 people, authorities said Thursday.
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MIAMI - Boxes of guns fell from the false ceiling of a storage unit, crashed into a toilet and ruptured a water pipe, leading authorities to uncover an alleged plot to sell the weapons to arm opposing sides in Colombia's civil war.    Five defendants from Miami-Dade County pleaded innocent Thursday to charges of firearms sales and exports to Venezuela, where prosecutors say the weapons were to be sold to left-wing Colombian rebels and right-wing paramilitary groups...
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Insurgents blew up a northern oil export pipeline on Tuesday, dealing a severe blow to the national economy, even as car bombs and gun battles across the country
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Saboteurs blew up an export pipeline in southern Iraq today in the latest in a series of attacks targeting the volatile countryâs crucial oil industry.
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Four Colombian coal miners were killed and 28 more were trapped and feared dead after explosions in two coal mines in the northern province of Norte de Santander on Saturday, local media reported.
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Colombia blamed Marxist FARC rebels on Sunday for killing at least five Venezuelan soldiers and an oil engineer in one of the deadliest attacks in recent years on the two country&#39;s jungle border.
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Some 450 paramilitaries in Colombia&#39;s banana-growing north, the cradle of death squads that evolved into the antiguerrilla militia in the 1990&#39;s, disarmed on Thursday.
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A left-wing guerrilla group says it carried out a series of blasts on pipelines in Mexico earlier this week.
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Hundreds of thousands of people marched through Colombia's major cities Thursday and drivers honked horns in unison in a mass protest to demand the immediate liberation of the country's kidnap victims.
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The Colombian government is winning in its offensive against Marxist rebels in their jungle strongholds, the country's new army chief said Thursday.
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More than 1,400 Colombian paramilitaries hand over their weapons to the country's government.
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A volcano erupted violently in southwestern Colombia Thursday, spewing ash miles into the sky and prompting the evacuation of several thousand people living nearby.
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Palestinian militants detonated a land mine near the border with Egypt on Thursday, blowing open a large hole in a wall near the border, witnesses and officials said.