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Highest US civilian award for HowardUS President George W. Bush and former Australian prime minister John Howard at APEC in September 2007.
Source : topix.net | 05-Jan-2009 23:18
Huge cache of rebels' explosives seized in Colombia
The Colombian Army has seized a huge cache of explosives belonging to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia in southwestern part of the country, EFE reported.
Source : topix.net | 04-Jan-2009 19:47
3 charged in murder scheme
PASSAIC a ' Police on Monday said greed was behind a murder conspiracy that led to the death of a 32-year-old man visiting Passaic County from Colombia.
Source : topix.net | 03-Jan-2009 13:19
EU to provide 2.5 million euros to Colombia for anti-drug program
Colombian authorities said on Wednesday that the European Union would provide 2.5 million euros in aid to Colombia for developing programs against the consumption of synthetic drugs.
Source : topix.net | 01-Jan-2009 13:05
Hollywood woos Colombia for hostage rescue film
BOGOTA: The daring jungle rescue of Ingrid Betancourt, three Americans and 11 others from leftist guerrillas could become a movie soon if Hollywood producers can strike a deal with the Colombian government.
Source : topix.net | 31-Dec-2008 12:58
Go on vacation, get a nose job?
It's normal to return from vacation with a deep tan, but what about coming home with bigger breasts, a new nose, a nip and tuck and some wrinkle removal? Vacations promising such corporeal transformations are ...
Source : topix.net | 30-Dec-2008 08:18
ELN Blamed For Killing 5 People in Colombia
The Colombian police Friday said suspected members of the Ejercito de Liberacion Nacional - Army of National Liberation - killed five people.
Source : topix.net | 28-Dec-2008 17:55
Colombia reports GDP growth 3.1% for 3rd quarter
BOGOTA, Colombia : Colombia's national statistics agency says the pace of growth is slowing, with third quarter GDP growth counted at 3.1 percent above the same period a year earlier.
Source : topix.net | 28-Dec-2008 06:31
Hundreds dead or injured in Latin America during Christmas
Christmas celebrations in Latin America left about 100 people dead and about 400 injured, according to reports yesterday.
Source : topix.net | 26-Dec-2008 06:22
Year of hope for Colombian hostages, many still in jungle
There is probably no such thing as a good year for a person who is being held hostage in the jungle, sick, in chains or barefooted among other terrible conditions.
Source : topix.net | 25-Dec-2008 03:45
Laura Zuniga: Mexican Beauty Queen Arrested In Gun-Filled Truck
A reigning Mexican beauty queen from the drug-plagued state of Sinaloa was arrested with suspected gang members in a truck filled guns and ammunition, police said Tuesday.
Source : topix.net | 24-Dec-2008 02:11
Pyramid scheme protest injures 5 in Colombia
Six people are in custody after a crowd ransacked the home of an alleged pyramid scheme representative.
Source : topix.net | 23-Dec-2008 18:40
Iraq Style Shooting in Colombia
Colombia's Indigenous Americans have been making substantial headway in their efforts to identify Colombia's "Civil War" as a war against the people by a repressive government serving a corporate agenda.
Source : topix.net | 23-Dec-2008 02:32
Colombia's president offers no re-election clue
BOGOTA, Colombia : Will he or won't he? Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe still isn't offering any clues about whether he'll seek a third consecutive term.
Source : topix.net | 22-Dec-2008 02:27
Colombia Destroys Drug Trafficking Network
The Colombian Prosecutor's Office said Friday it had dismantled a drug trafficking network believed to be linked to a Mexican drug trafficking cartel Sinaloa.
Source : topix.net | 20-Dec-2008 17:24
COLOMBIA: New Meaning in Life for Young Shantytown Dwellers
Part of the Legion del Afecto team at their headquarters. Credit:Mario Osava/IPS. SOACHA, Colombia, Dec 18 - After three of Viviana's friends were killed, and one of them dismembered, she began to think things ...
Source : topix.net | 19-Dec-2008 16:01
Soldiers kill husband of Colombian Indian leader
Soldiers at a rural roadblock on Tuesday shot and killed the husband of an indigenous leader who has organized anti-government marches.
Source : topix.net | 18-Dec-2008 22:47
Soldiers kill husband of Colombian Indian leader
BOGOTA, Colombia : Soldiers at a roadblock in rural western Colombia have shot and killed the husband of an indigenous leader who had been organizing anti-government marches.
Source : topix.net | 17-Dec-2008 12:03
Colombian Cartel Leader Extradited to Face Charges in Florida
R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Jonathan I. Solomon, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Division, announced today the ...
Source : topix.net | 16-Dec-2008 09:58
Flooding affects 20,000 in Colombia
At least 20,000 people have been displaced in the latest flooding in northern Colombia already ravaged by an unusually long and disastrous rainy season, EFE reported Monday.
Source : topix.net | 15-Dec-2008 09:42
Taoiseach intervened for Colombia Three
THE Taoiseach has intervened with the president of Colombia on behalf of the three Irish republicans charged with training antigovernment Farc guerrillas, the Sunday Tribune has learned.
Source : topix.net | 14-Dec-2008 20:19
Colombia's former spy chief held for militia links
Former head of Colombia's security service DAS has been arrested for the third time in less than two years on charges that he collaborated with the country's murderous right-wing militias, EFE news agency ...
Source : topix.net | 13-Dec-2008 20:16
COLOMBIA: Dangerous HIV complacency in gay community
BOGOTA, 12 December 2008 - When Cesar Leon discovered he had contracted HIV from his long-term boyfriend more than a decade ago, not much information was available about the virus, even among the gay community ...
Source : topix.net | 13-Dec-2008 04:17
Colombia extradites top drug suspect to US
Colombia extradited to the United States on Friday one of its most notorious reputed drug kingpins, Diego Montoya, to stand trial on drug trafficking, money laundering and murder charges.
Source : topix.net | 12-Dec-2008 20:09
RIGHTS: Harsh Language for Colombia at UN Review
Experts at multilateral forums usually begin their speeches with diplomatic words praising some aspect of the country or government under examination, before delivering their barrage of criticism.
Source : topix.net | 12-Dec-2008 15:43
Colombian Trio Extradited To Tampa On Drug Charges
Three more men have been arrested and extradited to the United States in an ongoing Tampa-based investigation that targets Colombian drug smugglers.
Source : topix.net | 12-Dec-2008 05:38
PR, Colombia study undersea cable proposal
Officials in Puerto Rico and Colombia are studying the possibility of building the world's longest undersea power line to carry electricity from South America to the Caribbean island.
Source : topix.net | 11-Dec-2008 21:34
Colombia rebels offered reward to desert with hostages
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe offered FARC guerrillas cash rewards and freedom if they desert the rebel ranks with some of the hostages they are holding, a proposal questioned by the attorney general.
Source : topix.net | 11-Dec-2008 06:48
Municipal Employee Fired For Being Colombian
The Sala II de la Corte Suprema de Justicia confirmed that the tax administrator for the Municipalidad de Santa Ana, Alvaro Manuel Alcala Segovia, was fired by the former mayor of Santa Ana, Maria Eugenia ...
Source : topix.net | 10-Dec-2008 18:51
Betancourt heads for France with rebel
Click to view more "> Photo Credit: AP Photo Colombia's Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos,top left, Colombia's chief federal prosecutor Mario Iguaran, third from right, former rebel of the Revolutionary Armed ...
Source : topix.net | 10-Dec-2008 02:06
Colombian rebel charged with kidnapping Americans
A high-ranking Colombian rebel has been charged with kidnapping Americans in 1999 and 2003.
Source : topix.net | 09-Dec-2008 04:26
Colombian Terror Organization Leader Indicted for Two Separate...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 DOJ-Trrorist-Indicted WASHINGTON , Dec. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A federal grand jury in the District of Colombia has indicted Carlos Marin Guarin , also known as "Pablo," also known as ...
Source : topix.net | 09-Dec-2008 00:03
Land mines kill 2 government workers in Colombia
Two Colombian government workers were killed Sunday when the car they were traveling in activated several land mines buried underneath the road, officials said.
Source : topix.net | 08-Dec-2008 16:47
Former leftist guerrilla to travel to France with Betancourt
A Colombian leftist guerrilla who deserted along with a hostage he was guarding will travel to France soon with Franco-Colombian ex-hostage Ingrid Betancourt, government sources told AFP Saturday.
Source : topix.net | 07-Dec-2008 16:47
Dead 'drug mule' dog Pablo stars in new FRANK cocaine campaign
Published by Hannah Wooderson for 24dash.com in Communities , Health Thursday 4th December 2008 - 9:54am Dead 'drug mule' dog Pablo stars in new FRANK advertising campaign A new hard-hitting 1million TV and ...
Source : topix.net | 07-Dec-2008 08:39
Colombian Officers Convicted of Extrajudicial Murder
A total of 45 Colombian officers were convicted of killing civilians in the name of purging rebels in the country, the prosecutor's office said Friday.
Source : topix.net | 06-Dec-2008 16:45
Suspected FARC rebel attack kills eight Colombian police
Eight Colombian police were killed and another wounded Friday in a suspected attack by Marxist FARC rebels in eastern Colombia, officials told AFP.
Source : topix.net | 05-Dec-2008 23:52
8 Colombian police die in ambush attack on convoy
Authorities in Colombia say eight police officers have been killed in an attack on a convoy in the country's turbulent northeast.
Source : topix.net | 05-Dec-2008 19:01
In Colombia, paramilitary groups still spreading terror
REPORTING FROM TUMACO, COLOMBIA -- The Colombian government insists that paramilitary gangs are extinct.
Source : topix.net | 05-Dec-2008 04:34
DEVELOPMENT-LATAM: The Greater the Solidarity, the Lower the Cost
MEDELLIN, Colombia, Dec 1 - Football in Belize does not aim for international achievements, but that does not matter to the environmental group that uses the sport to recruit children and young people to fight ...
Source : topix.net | 04-Dec-2008 12:41
Colombian kids flee home rather than become soldiers
Colombia's Marxist rebels, their ranks depleted by record desertions and military defeats, are stepping up recruitment of children in a desperate bid to prolong their war against the state.
Source : topix.net | 04-Dec-2008 04:24
News Story: Latin America fights for drug aid under Obama
The U.S. government was finally releasing $400 million on Wednesday to support Mexico's police and soldiers in their fight against drug cartels.
Source : topix.net | 04-Dec-2008 00:07
RIGHTS-COLOMBIA: Where Homophobia Totes a Gun
Homosexuals can remain in the closet and not be noticed, but that is not an acceptable alternative for transgender people who suffer violence to a greater extent in Colombia, where armed combatants in the ...
Source : topix.net | 03-Dec-2008 18:50
Africa: Passionate About Principled Trade
Just like humanitarian relief, fair trade is a field that attracts passionate individuals with complex world views.
Source : topix.net | 03-Dec-2008 10:32
Hostage families in Colombia ask for Betancourt s help
Families of hostages held by Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia rebels met in Bogota on Sunday with former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, asking her to work on their behalf during her ...
Source : topix.net | 03-Dec-2008 02:15
Colombian hostages' families want Betancourt to represent them
The families of the 26 soldiers and police officers being held hostage by Colombia's leftist guerrillas have urged Ingrid Betancourt, who was rescued in July from the rebels' captivity, to act as their ...
Source : topix.net | 01-Dec-2008 14:40