Kung fu monks battle Colombian karate assassins
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Who is the hardest of them all? Reader poll Our recent piece on the verbal spat between China's kung fu monks and an anonymous gobby net ninja provoked a certain amount of reader speculation as to who might in fact be the meanest kick-ass mutha on the planet.â¦
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Colombia's army killed at least 13 right-wing fighters Sunday during sustained combat with a renegade paramilitary group that has refused to participate in government peace talks, a top official said.
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BOGOTA, Colombia -- Col. Hern?n Mej?a was among Colombia's most decorated officers, a young, strapping warrior with five medals for valor on his chest and a reputation for being a relentless adversary of the Marxist guerrillas who operated in the dusty hamlets of northeast Colombia.
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Cut men tend to the wounds of mixed martial arts fighters, who combine elements of boxing, wrestling, karate and Brazilian jiu-jitsu in one of the countryâs fastest-growing sports.
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One of the greatest fights in recent boxing history was eclipsed on Saturday when Marco Antonio Barrera and Erik Morales put on yet another memorable brawl.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Toughening its stance against right-wing warlords once unofficially allied with the government, Colombia on Friday transferred to prison 59 militia leaders said to have planned a mass escape from a work farm.
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Believing that Colombia's violence had ebbed, Giovanni Colmenares and his family moved from the United States back to Colombia last year, opened a bar in Bogota and were looking to buy an apartment. But then one day assailants hustled him into a car and put a gun to his head.
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At least 70 monks detained and some beaten as security forces sweep through claimed hotbeds of protest movement.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Heavy fighting between Colombian troops and left-wing guerrillas killed 11 rebels and three soldiers in a remote jungle area in the south of the country, the armed forces said on Tuesday.
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The characters in the western âDisappearancesâ speak in biblical cadences. The movieâs code, however, is the same kill-or-be-killed law of the jungle.
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Islamic militiamen rooting out resistance in the capital battled supporters of a secular warlord in door-to-door fighting Sunday that left 20 people dead and 40 wounded, witnesses and doctors said.
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In the primal pursuit known as mixed martial arts, Renzo Gracie may be the closest thing to a philosopher one will find.
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Now that America's most-wanted cocaine trafficker is about to be extradited to the U.S., his rivals and lieutenants are struggling for command of Colombia's dominant cartel, authorities say. But whoever wins will inherit a criminal organization tottering on the edge of extinction.
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Bogota, Nov. 28 (NNN): The largest guerrilla group in Colombia, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), had ordered to assassinate US President George Walker Bush during a recent visit there, country
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: Suspected Muslim insurgents attacked an army unit protecting Buddhist monks at a monastery early Friday, killing one of the soldiers as sectarian violence continued in southern Thailand, police said.
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VALLEDUPAR, Colombia  - The bodyguard business is booming in this northern Colombian city plastered with posters of rival political candidates, mostly tough-looking men with hard eyes and forced smiles.
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Jair Diaz is one of the brave ones. After leftist rebels gunned down two city councilmen, most other politicians fled this town in the shadow of Colombia's rebel-controlled southern jungles.