Colombia rebels kidnap oil contractors - ONE News
Colombian FARC guerrillas kidnapped five local oil contractors in a rural region near the Venezuelan border but another worker escaped when the rebel captors crashed their vehicle, authorities said. The captive men were working for oil service ...
Ratify the Colombia pact - Tampa Bay Online
CARTAGENA, Colombia - It is time for the United States to ratify the Colombia free trade agreement. It should do so for the benefit of jobs in the U.S. and for the remarkable progress on human rights and democracy in Colombia. For nearly 40 years ...
Colombia rebels kidnap five oil contractors - Reuters
BOGOTA, March 20 (Reuters) - Colombian FARC guerrillas kidnapped five local oil contractors in a rural region near the Venezuelan border but another worker escaped when the rebel captors crashed their vehicle, authorities said on Saturday. The ...
Colombia feeds China's appetite for coal - Houston Chronicle
BOGOTA — BHP Billiton, Anglo American and Xstrata are shipping coal 10,000 miles to China from their Cerrejon mine in Colombia for the first time this year because of surging demand and rising prices in Asia. Cerrejon, the world's largest open-pit ...
Colombian peasants wooed with land to adopt family ... - Los Angeles Times
Think of the 10 women who just had their fallopian tubes tied at a clinic in northern Colombia as foot soldiers in Erwin Goggel's lonely war on overpopulation and poverty. A film producer and heir to a dairy fortune, Goggel is offering nine-acre ...
Colombian journalist gunned down - Democratic Underground.com
Bogota, Mar 21 (AP) The killing of a veteran radio reporter by a motorcycle gunman in a northwestern state capital has reignited concerns about the safety of journalists in Colombia. Clodomiro Castilla, a reporter and announcer at La Voz de Monteria ...
Reporter slain in Colombia, renewing fears - NorthJersey.com
BOGOTÁ — The killing of a veteran radio reporter by a motorcycle gunman in a northwestern state capital reignited concerns Saturday about the safety of journalists in Colombia. Clodomiro Castilla, a reporter and announcer at La Voz de Monteria ...
Journalist shot and killed in Colombia's Monteria city - Daily News and Analysis
Bogota: A gunman killed a Colombian journalist who had received threats and reported on politicians linked to paramilitary death squads, police and the victim's family said on Saturday. Clodomiro Castilla, an editor of El Pulso magazine and a ...
Land mines take a toll on Colombia's poor - Seattle Times
A manual eradication team uproots coca plants in Colombia's Narino state in February. The number of eradicators wounded or killed by land mines has soard in recent years. CHRIS KRAUL / MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS "The government has turned its back on me ...
The ultimate road trip: A drive around the world - Chicago Sun-Times
I visited the Mayan ruins of Copan in Honduras, ancient tombs and painted caves in Tierradentro, Colombia, and the Spanish colonial city of Quito, Ecuador. A story about the trip that appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times and other newspapers and Web ...
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Afghan women confront deadly task: Childbirth
Snowmobiler killed in Canada avalanche
Rescue crews end their search in British Columbia's mountainous backcountry after accounting for everyone in an area where an avalanche cascaded down a mountain, killing one snowmobiler.
Pope fails to calm anger over Irish abuses
 Pope Benedict XVI's unprecedented letter to Ireland apologizing for chronic child abuse within the Catholic Church fails to calm the anger of many victims.
Obama appeals to Iranians in online video
In a fresh appeal to the Iranian people, President Obama says in an online video that the U.S. wants more cultural exchanges for their students and better access to the Internet to give them a more hopeful future.
Volcano erupts in southern Iceland
 Authorities evacuated hundreds of people after a volcano erupted beside a glacier in southern Iceland, Iceland's civil protection agency says.
U.N. chief: Israel must stop settlements
 Visiting U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon says that Israeli settlement building anywhere on occupied land is illegal, while a Palestinian teenager is killed in clashes with Israeli troops elsewhere in the West Bank.
Sandstorm turns Beijing sky orange
 China's capital woke up to orange-tinted skies Saturday as the strongest sandstorm so far this year hit the country’s north, making breathing the air “very bad for health.”
Israeli troops kill two Palestinians in West Bank
Israeli troops killed two Palestinians who tried to stab a soldier on Sunday, the Israeli army said, in West Bank violence that placed further strain on U.S. efforts to get indirect peace talks under way.
Spain says video shows firefighters on holiday
A Spanish firefighting force says a video released by French officials investigating an alleged ETA shooting does not show the suspected gunmen, but rather a group of Catalan firefighters on holiday.
Thousands rally in Russia against Putin
 Thousands rally across Russia to denounce government economic policy and demand more freedom in a new challenge to the Kremlin reflecting increasing disillusionment.
Bombs still greet Marines in Afghan town
 Explosions rumble through Marjah daily — an ominous sign that Taliban insurgents have not given up despite losing control of the town to U.S. and Afghan forces about two weeks ago.
Explosives found aboard India plane
Explosive material was found in a package on a passenger plane after it landed in southern India, but it was not attached to a detonator and could not have exploded, officials said on Sunday.
Moderate earthquake, aftershock shake eastern Cuba
A moderate earthquake and smaller aftershock rattled houses and nerves in eastern Cuba on Saturday near the U.S. holding facility at Guantanamo Bay. No damages or injuries were reported.
Pakistani Taliban kill 4, calling them US spies
The bullet-riddled bodies of four Pakistani tribesmen, killed by the Taliban for allegedly spying for the United States, were found Sunday in a semiautonomous tribal region near the Afghan border, witnesses and officials said.
Married at 9, divorced at 10: Girl's memoir
In a harrowing memoir she has yet to read herself, Nujood Ali tells how at age 9 she was forced to marry a man three times her age, raped and beaten, then made Yemeni history by getting a divorce.
Mexico drug war's toll on Americans grows
 The number of U.S. citizens killed in Mexico has more than doubled to 79 in 2009 from 35 in 2007, according to the U.S. State Department.
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