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Colombian rebels: French journalist to be freed The Associated Press Published May 28, 2012 12:15AM MDT BOGOTA, Colombia • Colombia’s main rebel group says it plans to release on Wednesday a French journalist it has held for a month after a firefight with Colombian soldiers. The leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia said in a communique posted online Saturday night that it would shortly provide the handover coordinates to the...  

APPolice inspect the scene after a bomb exploded in Bogota, Colombia. A bomb targeting former Colombian interior minister Fernando Londono killed two of his bodyguards and injured at least 31 others in the heart of Bogota's uptown commercial district, authorities said. BOGOTA, Colombia -- Five people were killed and...  

BOGOTA (Dow Jones)--Low-cost airline VivaColombia took its first flight Friday, from Medellin to Bogota, entering Colombia's growing commercial airline sector with deals as low as $29 each way. The airline is the second local airline to dub ...  

BOGOTA, Colombia — A gunman opened fire on a labor leader in the Colombia city of Cali but missed, killing the man’s brother and wounding two other people, including a 4-year-old girl, police said Thursday. Adolfo Devia, vice president of the Cali ...  

BOGOTA, Colombia -- Colombian army officials said Monday that 12 soldiers were killed in an ambush by leftist rebels who, according to one commander, “presumably” fled into Venezuelan territory afterward. The soldiers were attacked Monday ...  

Alma Guillermoprieto Carolyn Kaster/AP Images President Obama with the Colombian singer Shakira and Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos in Cartagena, where he was attending the Summit of the Americas, at which leaders openly discussed the legalization of drugs for the first time, April 15,2012 A couple of decades ago, perhaps, a discussion of the war on drugs declared by Richard Nixon back in 1973 could...  

NEW YORK, May 23 (UPI) -- The Colombian government aims to make its oil production levels, close to 1 million barrels per day, a sustainable objective, the energy minister said. The Colombian government set a goal of reaching the 1 million bpd ...  

The device was found a week after another Colombian politician, Fernando Londono, was targeted in a bomb attack in the Colombian capital, Bogota. Mr Londono, who served as justice and interior minister under Mr Uribe, was injured in the attack ...  

BOGOTA, May 23 (UPI) -- A Colombian court has restored custody of adopted sons to a homosexual man, opening the door for gay adoptions. The Constitutional Court found that the country's Family Welfare Institute simply assumed the father's sexual ...  

BOGOTA, Colombia — Even Colombians accustomed to treachery and deceit after more than a half-century of civil conflict and drug violence were stunned by the arrest of a one-time provincial lawmaker for allegedly helping plan the mass ...  

The views expressed are the author's own. Bomb in Colombian capital taints first day of Colombia-US free trade agreement Think you know Latin America? Take our geography quiz. While the Marxist rebels the FARC appear to be the most likely ...  

A stringent critic of the FARC, Londono was interior and justice minister in 2002-2003 under former President Alvaro Uribe. He hosts a daily radio show called "The Hour of Truth" and firmly opposes peace talks with the FARC, calling the rebels ...  

BOGOTA, Colombia — A bomb targeting a hardline former interior minister killed two of his bodyguards and injured at least 31 people in Bogota's uptown commercial district Tuesday in the type of brazen attack not seen in Colombia's capital in ...  

BOGOTA, Colombia – A bomb has exploded on a crowded street in Colombia's capital and the city's health director says at least 19 people have been injured. TV images from scene in Bogota's northern commercial district showed a badly damaged SUV ...  

BOGOTA, Colombia -- A former Cabinet member and close associate of ex-President Alvaro Uribe apparently was the target of bomb attempt Tuesday that wounded him, killed two people and wounded 24 others in a shopping district of Bogota. President ...