450 Colombian Paramilitaries Disarm
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Some 450 right-wing paramilitary fighters left Colombia's crowded battlefields, turning in their weapons and asking society to let them back into its fold.
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More than 1,400 Colombian paramilitaries hand over their weapons to the country's government.
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BAQOUBA, Iraq - Insurgent attacks and clashes killed 45 people in the Iraqi city of Baqouba on Tuesday, a hospital morgue official said.
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By Jason Webb BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia is proposing to meetwith Marxist rebels in a foreign embassy to negotiate therelease of 50 imprisoned guerrillas in exchange for 72 hostagesincluding three Americans.
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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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After freeing two hostages, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia is thought to still hold more than 700 others.
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MONROVIA, Liberia - Armed UN troops arrested dozens of men Sunday in a sometimes bloody conclusion to a countrywide disarmament program, days after a fresh burst of violent in the war-battered West African nation.
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New data shows that police officers forcibly stopped 508,540 individuals last year, and in many cases searched them for illegal weapons.
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Colombia and Venezuela say a diplomatic crisis over the capture of a Colombian rebel is over.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Marxist rebels killed 17  Colombian soldiers in a battle in the jungles of northern  Colombia on Wednesday in the deadliest attack on the armed  forces in years, the army said.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombian rebels holding 62   hostages, including three Americans and former presidential   candidate Ingrid Betancourt, called on Monday for   "face-to-face" talks with the government on a prisoner   exchange.
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About 700,000 Colombians have taken part in nationwide protests against President Alvaro Uribe.
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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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Police and army operations in two Colombian cities have led to one of the largest rebel surrenders since President Alvaro Uribe began his U.S.-backed security crackdown in 2002, authorities said on Wednesday.
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The highest-ranking jailed member of Colombia's main guerrilla group was freed by the government Monday as part of a wider prisoner release intended to help secure the freedom of 60 hostages &#151; including three Americans &#151; held by the guerrillas.
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By Hugh Bronstein BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia's biggest right-wingparamilitary group said on Thursday it would disband 3,000 ofits fighters before the end of the year, in what the groupcalled a good faith gesture as it pursues peace talks with thegovernment.
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Some 450 far-right Colombian paramilitary fighters turned in their weapons on Thursday as part of a government-negotiated demobilization to eliminate the outlawed group by the end of next year.