Colombia bid to end row rejected
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Venezuela turns down Colombia's offer of a regional summit to resolve a row over a kidnapped rebel leader.
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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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By Hugh Bronstein BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia said on Friday that atop Marxist guerrilla leader may avoid extradition to theUnited States if his rebel group frees 63 hostages, includingthree Americans and one German.
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A U.S. federal judge on Friday rejected an appeal seeking to block the extradition of deposed Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega to France after his long prison sentence in Florida ends on Sunday.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia's biggest leftist rebel group proposed a conditional cease-fire with the government on Monday, its most significant step toward peace since conservative Alvaro Uribe became president in 2002.
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A mistrial is declared in the case of Colombian rebel leader Ricardo Palmera, after a US jury fails to reach a verdict.
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Colombia's main rebel group asked followers to mount an assassination attempt against President Bush during his visit to Colombia last week, Defense Minister Jorge Uribe said. There was no evidence Saturday that rebels even tried to organize such an attack.
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Colombia offers to exchange jailed rebels for hostages held by Farc militants - a reversal of earlier policy.
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The Socialist Group in the European Parliament (EP) on Thursday rejected a proposal by incoming European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso designed to defuse a row over
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A rebel bid for an independent Tamil state in Sri Lanka has run into outright international rejection with the United States leading calls for new peace talks and an end to bloodshed.
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BOGOTA, Colombia - Colombiaâs main rebel group on Monday criticized a government proposal to swap jailed guerrillas for kidnapped politicians, soldiers and three American contractors, saying any deal should allow its freed comrades to return to the
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President Hugo Chavez said Friday that diplomatic and commercial relations with Colombia would be put on hold until it apologizes for paying bounty hunters to abduct a rebel leader from inside Venezuela, insisting the neighboring country's actions were indefensible.
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By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombian President AlvaroUribe offered on Saturday to meet his Venezuelan counterpart,Hugo Chavez, to defuse a widening diplomatic dispute over thecovert of a top Colombian rebel in Venezuela.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombian rebels on Wednesdaydenied government accusations they plotted to kill PresidentBush during a visit to the port of Cartagena last week.
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Colombia&#039;s peace process with far-right paramilitaries faced uncertainty Friday after the country&#039;s constitutional court rejected key provisions of the deal that human rights groups had criticized as too lenient.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - The United Nations will  suspend its mediation efforts between the Colombian government  and Marxist rebels after two years of talks that have failed to  resolve the country's 40-year conflict, U.N. officials said on  Monday.
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VILLAVICENCIO, Colombia  - A delicate mission to free three hostages held by Colombian guerrillas appeared to collapse on Monday as the government and rebel leaders accused each other of trying to kill the deal.