Colombia set to blow up nearly 7,000 land mines
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Jordan&#39;s Queen Noor, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and US Ambassador William Wood watched on large-screen televisions in Bogota&#39;s main plaza as Colombia&#39;s government destroyed its stockpile of 6,800 land mines in eight
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Tens of thousands of Colombians took to the streets across the country and overseas on Monday in a massive protest against FARC guerrillas and their kidnapping of hostages held for years in hidden jungle camps.
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Ethiopia, one of the world&#39;s most mine-infested countries, says it has joined a global landmine ban as more than 100 nations met to rejuvenate the campaign to eradicate the weapons and aid victims worldwide.
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A land mine killed five Colombian soldiers Wednesday after a patrol chasing leftist rebels stumbled in to a mine field, authorities said.
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A separatist rebel group claims responsibility for two of the seven explosions that have rocked the state.
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Suspected rebels ambushed an army patrol, exploded a car bomb in the capital and another bomb in Colombia's southwest Monday, killing at least 18 people in a wave of attacks a week before the presidential inauguration.
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The Colombian government is pursuing a relentless campaign to seize drug traffickers' assets.
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Police said Sunday they found a cache of explosives in the coastal city of Cartagena that rebels planned to use to assassinate President Alvaro Uribe.
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Â·  Colombian farmers driven out as armed groups profit Â·  Lucrative 'green' crop less risky to grow than coca
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The Bolivian government is sending 700 troops to a tin mine as clashes between rival miners enter a second day.
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A record area was cleared of landmines   worldwide last year, but casualties caused by the weapons rose   by 11 percent to 7,328, with almost all the victims civilians,   many of them children, a report said on Wednesday.
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NABUSIMAKE, Colombia -- Caught in the crossfire of a conflict not of their making, Colombia's indigenous tribes say they are fighting the greatest threat to their survival since Spanish colonizers reached their shores 500 years ago.
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The Mozambican government set itself a new five-year target on Friday to remove all the landmines that still litter the country, 15 years after its long-running civil war.
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Colombia has accused Venezuela of sheltering a Colombian rebel leader on its territory and said other Colombian terrorists and rebel camps are in the neighboring country.
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BOGOTA -- Colombia's armed forces blew up 6,800 stockpiled land mines yesterday as President Alvaro Uribe, Queen Noor of Jordan, and dozens of mine blast victims watched on large screens, launching an effort aimed at ridding the country of the weapons.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Flooding and mudslides innortheastern Colombia killed at least 24 people and forced morethan 30,000 from their homes, authorities said on Sunday.
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The Colombian government is winning in its offensive against Marxist rebels in their jungle strongholds, the country's new army chief said Thursday.