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The Irish government has expressed its astonishment at a Colombian courtâs conviction and sentencing of three Irishmen to 17-year prison sentences for training Colombian rebels.
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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- Three former Sierra Leonean military leaders were found guilty of war crimes yesterday by a UN-backed court -- the first verdicts from the country's civil war and the first convictions in an international court for using child soldiers.
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Farc leader Ricardo Palmera is convicted in the US over the kidnapping of three Americans in Colombia.
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Three Irishmen acquitted of training Colombian Marxist guerrillas are found guilty on appeal.
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A Colombian congressman and member of President Alvaro Uribe's coalition was sent to jail for six years on Wednesday for his links to illegal right-wing militias, the first lawmaker to fall in a spreading scandal.
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Colombian authorities revealed Friday that they had lost track in June of three IRA-linked men, convicted this week of training Marxist rebels in terrorist tactics, after
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Prosecutors, lawmakers and rights activists criticized Venezuela's judicial system for the acquittal of a man who had been accused of torturing and repeatedly raping a woman.
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Gerry Adams is "outraged" at a Colombian appeal court's decision to sentence three Irishmen to 17 years in jail.
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Colombian rebels blame military operations for blocking the release of hostages, Venezuela's president says.
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Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, bruised by a political scandal, saw his disapproval rating hit a high of 27 percent in an Invamer Gallup poll published on Saturday.
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THREE Irishmen acquitted by a Colombian judge of training Marxist guerillas in IRA-style terrorist warfare have been found guilty on appeal and sentenced to up to 17 1/2 years in prison.
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BOGOT&#xC1; -- Colombia's president accused guerrillas of murdering 11 state lawmakers in cold blood, making a live television broadcast yesterday to dispute a rebel claim that the hostages died in crossfire during a military attack.
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A Colombian rebel leader was convicted on Monday for conspiring to take hostages in connection with the kidnapping of three American contractors in 2003.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on Thursday ordered an investigation of right-wing militia leaders suspected of killing two fellow paramilitaries this month and threatened to extradite them to the United States.
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About 700,000 Colombians have taken part in nationwide protests against President Alvaro Uribe.
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BOGOTA -- Three men who have been linked to the Irish republican movement were sentenced to 17 years in prison yesterday by a top Colombian court that overturned their acquittal for training leftist guerrillas in terrorist techniques. But Colombia's attorney general Luis Camilo Osorio said late last night that the men had fled the country and he appealed to the ...
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Four Colombian soldiers were sentenced to 40 years each for murdering union officials in 2004, a decision the government said reflects its commitment to labor rights as it tries to clinch a U.S. free trade deal.