Colombian Rebels Free 2 Hostages
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President Hugo ChÃ¡vez of Venezuela announced Thursday that Colombian guerrillas had freed two high-profile hostages from captivity.
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A Colombian woman freed last week after six years as a rebel hostage arrived in Bogota on Sunday and headed for a reunion with her son Emmanuel, born in captivity but now in foster care.
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The same leftist rebels that released two long-held hostages three days ago have kidnapped six people from a tourist group at a remote beach on Colombia's Pacific coast, a spokeswoman for the Colombian navy said Monday.
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Militants in Iraq free French reporters Georges Malbrunot and Christian Chesnot, held hostage since August.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Wednesday Colombian rebels are ready to free two hostages, telling him the location they can be picked up from.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, Jan. 10 -- Two women held captive by Colombian rebels for most of this decade were handed over to the Venezuelan government Thursday, triggering euphoria among their friends and family and raising hopes that other hostages could soon be released.
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Two Venezuelan helicopters and their crews waited in central Colombia Saturday morning for directions as to where in the jungle to fly to pick up three hostages being freed by leftist rebels.
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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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Venezuela's Hugo Chavez sends helicopters to Colombia to pick up three hostages to be freed by Farc rebels.
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More than two dozen Colombian prisoners arrested three years ago in an alleged plot against President Hugo Chavez were freed Saturday in a goodwill gesture he hopes will help facilitate a prisoner exchange in Colombia.
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Colombia's leftist rebels said yesterday they would release three of the dozens of high-profile hostages they are holding as bargaining chips with the Colombian government
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COLOMBIA BOGOTA -- President Alvaro Uribe pardoned 23 jailed Marxist rebels yesterday 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. Government Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo said the 23 rebels belonging to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, will be freed ...
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Marxist rebels kept hold of three hostages in Colombia on Monday despite a deal to free them after years in secret camps, worrying Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez who negotiated the handover with the guerrillas.
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Colombia agrees to a new Venezuelan mission to secure the release of two hostages held by Farc rebels.
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Russian special services free two people who were held hostage by inmates at a pre-trial detention centre in Moscow.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says Colombia's Farc rebels have said they are ready to release hostages.
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Colombian President Alvaro Uribe freed a jailed guerrilla leader on Monday to try to broker peace talks and negotiate the release of rebel-held hostages, including a French-Colombian politician and three Americans.