Colombia's Carlos Meza Declared Brain Dead
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Colombian boxer Carlos Meza was declared brain dead Tuesday, four days after being knocked out in the ring.
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Suspected Marxist rebels gunned down a state attorney in southern Colombia who had been prosecuting captured guerrilla commanders, police said Saturday.
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas  - Former International Boxing  Federation (IBF) super flyweight champion Robert Quiroga was  killed early Monday, police said.
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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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Juan Francisco Fresno, the cardinal who played a key role in efforts to restore democracy in Chile during the military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, has died, Roman Catholic Church authorities said. He was 90.
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Chad's Prime Minister Pascal  Yoadimnadji died from a brain haemorrhage in Paris on Friday  after he was flown there for urgent treatment following a heart  attack. He was 56.
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Carlos Castano, a founder of Colombia's brutal far-right militias, has died, officials confirmed Monday. He was 39.
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Sevilla midfielder Antonio Puerta died on Tuesday, three days after collapsing during a Primera Liga match against Getafe.
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LUIS Fernando Montoya, the former coach of South American soccer champions Once Caldas, has been left completely paralysed by robbers who shot him twice in the neck, his doctor said today.
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A teacher was hacked to death in this historic Mexican city that has been paralyzed for months by protests and violence, police said late Thursday. A colleague claimed the man was killed for opposing a teachers' strike.
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Nicaraguan presidential candidate Herty Lewites died of a heart attack Sunday, his party&#039;s president said. He was 67. Dora Maria Tellez told The Associated Press Lewites, a former Managua mayor, died at a hospital in the capital.
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The boss of Colombia's biggest remaining cocaine cartel was shot dead in neighboring Venezuela in an apparent settling of scores among drug gangs, authorities said on Friday.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian leader Yasser  Arafat was officially declared dead on Thursday, cabinet  minister Saeb Erekat said.
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The Mexican founder of an ultra-conservative Catholic movement who was accused of child abuse and sanctioned by the Vatican has died aged 87, his Legionaries of Christ group said on Thursday.
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Two candidates in Sunday's regional polls in Colombia are shot dead, bringing the number killed to at least 21.
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A FOUR-hour stopover in Colombia last week could have cost US President George W. Bush his life. Marxist rebel army the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia reportedly planned to kill Mr Bush on his visit
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A Colombian businessman kidnapped by leftist rebels died in a military rescue attempt on Thursday, illustrating the dilemma the government faces over thousands of hostages languishing in secret guerrilla jails.