Colombia Leader Pardons 23 Jailed Rebels
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President Alvaro Uribe pardoned 23 jailed Marxist rebels Thursday as a goodwill gesture and said he hoped guerrilla leaders will respond by freeing hostages, though the leaders previously have said they would not reciprocate.
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Colombia's government on Sunday cleared the way for FARC guerrillas to handover three more hostages to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez even as the Andean neighbors quarrel over his role in freeing rebel captives.
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A former Colombian rebel leader was sentenced to 60 years in prison on Monday for conspiring to take hostages in connection with the kidnapping of three American contractors in 2003 in Colombia.
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NAIROBI, July 20 -- The Ethiopian government on Friday pardoned 38 of the country's top political opposition leaders, released them from prison and drove them in three minibuses to homes they had not seen in nearly two years.
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BOGOTA -- Colombia's president last night approved the extradition from a local prison to the United States of a top leftist guerrilla commander, but said he will halt the order if the guerrillas release 63 high-profile hostages -- including three Americans and a German -- before Dec. 30.
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President Hugo Chavez granted amnesty Monday to many opponents accused of supporting a failed 2002 coup that briefly drove him from power.
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The Red Cross says it has recovered 11 bodies thought to be Colombian lawmakers held by Farc rebels.
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Jordan's King Abdullah II on Saturday pardoned two Islamist lawmakers who had been convicted of stirring sectarian strife for their praise of the slain al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela pardons and frees 27 Colombians convicted for plotting against him.
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A court on Thursday convicted three IRA-linked men of training Colombian rebels in terrorist tactics and sentenced them to up to 17 1/2 years in prison.
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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 ...
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Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has offered to release 50 insurgents accused of minor crimes in exchange for an equal number of hostages in rebel hands, including three Americans, his spokesman said Wednesday.
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A Colombian court on Thursday sentenced three suspected members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) to 17 years in prison and fined them a total of 426,000 US dollars for training Colombian rebels.
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Panama&#39;s outgoing president has pardoned four Cuban emigres convicted for their role in an assassination attempt on Cuban President Fidel Castro.
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A top Colombian court on Thursday sentenced three Irishmen to 17 years in prison, overturning an acquittal on charges they were IRA members who taught Marxist rebels how to make bombs.
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Colombian guerrillas have freed two women they have been holding, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says.
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Colombian Marxist guerrillas have said they will turn over three of their hostages to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez after Bogota ended the leftist leader's efforts to secure a deal to free rebel captives.