Colombian rift over abortion widens
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A news report that a cardinal threatened doctors who performed an abortion with excommunication sparked controversy Wednesday and a denial from the prelate.
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The US voices concern at the Colombian government's plans to reach peace deals with illegal armed groups.
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BOGOTA, Colombia - A gunfight broke out in a church in a cocaine-producing region of southern Colombia, leaving at least three people dead and 14 wounded, authorities said Sunday.
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By Scott Rothschild, Journal-World, Lawrence, Kan.  Sep. 16--Topeka -- An investigation into two abortion clinics has widened and led to prosecutions, according to Atty. Gen. Phill Kline.   But attorneys for the clinics say they are baffled by Kline's pronouncements.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, Jan. 10 -- Venezuelan President Hugo ChÃÂ¡vez said that two women held by Colombian rebels for years were handed over to his government Thursday, triggering celebrations in this country. By early afternoon, they were being flown out of a Colombian jungle to be reunited with family...
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A child born captive in a rebel camp is at the center of a bitter dispute between Colombia's government, which says the boy was abused and then freed, and Marxist guerrillas who say they still have him in the jungle.
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The capture of a Colombian rebel on the streets of Caracas has triggered a diplomatic crisis with Colombia that has even drawn in the United States, with a top general accusing the Bush administration Friday of trying to undermine his government.
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The political scandal that forced Colombia's foreign minister to quit and put other close allies of President Alvaro Uribe in jail is being driven in large part by a rebel-turned-senator who has defied death threats to become the opposition's most fearless provocateur.
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Spain is talking once again about a royal pregnancy, with Crown Prince Felipe's wife expecting her second child. But the impending birth also has energized debate over scrapping the bias toward males in succession to the throne.
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The political scandal that forced Colombia's foreign minister to quit this week and put other close allies of President Alvaro Uribe in jail is being driven in large part by a rebel-turned-lawmaker who has become the opposition's chief provocateur.
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Thousands of Colombians took to the streets across the country and overseas on Monday in a huge protest against FARC guerrillas and their kidnapping of scores of hostages held captive for years in hidden jungle camps.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombian President Alvaro  Uribe offered on Saturday to meet his Venezuelan counterpart,  Hugo Chavez, to defuse a widening diplomatic dispute over the  capture of a top Colombian rebel in Venezuela.
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Colombia's Indian tribes are confronting a sudden rise in the suicide rate of their young members.
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Colombian orders the arrest of an ex-minister's father, as a political scandal over alleged militia links widens.
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LISBON, Feb 8 (IPS) - Just when those in favour of legalising abortion in  Portugal were faltering in the polls, a hair-raising campaign  against voluntary termination of pregnancy could backfire against  the anti-abortion cause, instead of winning over more supporters.
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Archbishop Jose Gomez complained Wednesday about plans for a rally by Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, an abortion rights supporter, at a Catholic university.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombian rebels on Wednesdaydenied government accusations they plotted to kill PresidentBush during a visit to the port of Cartagena last week.