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North Colombia car bomb toll raised to 4

Four people were killed when a car bomb detonates in northeast Colombia. Authorities blame the FARC’s 33rd Front for the attack. General Marco Lino Tamayo, an Air Force commander of the Colombian Armed Forces told the...

Three soldiers killed by ‘FARC’ mines

Three Colombian soldiers were killed and one injured near the Venezuelan border on Saturday after entering a minefield allegedly laid by the FARC, the military reported. The soldiers had been carrying out routine tasks at a site...

Pope Benedict XVI names Colombian bishop

Pope Benedict XVI has named Alberto Omar Sanchez Cubillos as bishop in Tibu, in the northern Colombian department of Norte de Santander, reported The Vatican Wednesday. Cubillos Sanchez was born in 1963 in Zipaquira,...

‘FARC’ car bomb hits north-east Colombia

A car bomb attributed to the FARC guerrilla group destroys a bridge in the municipality of Tibu, in Colombia’s Norte de Santander department, which borders Venezuela, Globovision reported Tuesday. The municipality suffered...

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