Colombia reopens army abuse probes
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The five soldiers who killed Maria Elena Rios in a hillside slum of the city of Medellin said she was a guerrilla who died in combat. After a swift investigation, the army closed the case.
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Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez sent two helicopters into Colombia on Friday to start a sensitive mission to collect two women politicians and a young boy held hostage for years by Marxist guerrillas.
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An inquiry may be reopened into claims security forces began a "shoot-to-kill" policy during the Troubles.
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The British army faces a fresh series of allegations of abuse against its troops in Iraq, in addition to the current court martial of three soldiers, a newspaper reported.
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Aruban prosecutors said Friday that they are reopening their investigation into the disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway after seeing secretly taped material from a Dutch journalist.
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Amnesty International on Wednesday renewed its call for the United States to set up an independent investigation of the abuse of prisoners in Afghanistan, at Guantanamo Bay and at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, June 28 -- President ÃÂlvaro Uribe on Thursday accused Colombia's largest rebel group of killing 11 civilian hostages, just hours after the guerrillas implied that a botched military rescue operation was to blame for the deaths.
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MIAMI - Boxes of guns fell from the false ceiling of a storage unit, crashed into a toilet and ruptured a water pipe, leading authorities to uncover an alleged plot to sell the weapons to arm opposing sides in Colombia's civil war.    Five defendants from Miami-Dade County pleaded innocent Thursday to charges of firearms sales and exports to Venezuela, where prosecutors say the weapons were to be sold to left-wing Colombian rebels and right-wing paramilitary groups...
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Colombia's Congress gave final approval to a bill to allow President Alvaro Uribe to run for re-election, a move aimed at giving the hard-line leader more time to fight a leftist insurgency and drug trafficking.
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Northern Ireland police ombudsman will re-examine John Stalker files.
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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 the men defied a court order to report to police weekly.
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Six lawmakers face questioning by Colombia's Supreme Court this week over their alleged links to paramilitary forces.
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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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The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force for Afghanistan (ISAF) has began an investigation into a report that says U.S. and Afghan soldiers were involved in abusing a suspect, the military said.
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Bush's visit to Colombia put a spotlight on a country where, despite government scandals and human-rights questions, progress has been made against domestic terrorism
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WASHINGTON An internal US Army investigation released Wednesday confirmed for the first time that military intelligence officers had been directly involved in the abuse of Iraqis at the Abu Ghraib prison.
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Independent experts are to re-examine evidence from Northern Ireland's worst atrocity after the acquittal last month of the main suspect, the British-run province's police watchdog said Thursday.