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| Jan.23 |
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Rebels kidnap 2 U.S. journalists
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| Jan.24 |
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3 freed, 2 journalists still captive
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| Feb.7 |
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Club blast kills 33| Car bomb rocked a northern Bogota social club. A large crater was discovered in the third-floor parking lot | | |
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| Feb.11 |
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Plane wreckage found
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| Feb.13 |
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Plane carrying Americans crashes
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| Feb.14 |
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Police raid hit by explosion, 15 killed
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2 executed near plane wreckage
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| Feb.22 |
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FARC rebels 'hold Americans'| Left-wing group has said that it is holding three US citizens who vanished when their plane crash-landed | | |
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U.S. adds to military presence Additional U.S. military personnel have been dispatched to Colombia, where leftist rebels held 3 Americans captive
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| Feb.24 |
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Missing US men 'prisoners of war' Left-wing rebels of FARC say hostages will only be freed in return for the release of several fellow militants
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| Feb.26 |
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Army helicopter crashes with 23 aboard The U.S.-made Black Hawk went down in bad weather as it hunted leftist guerrillas
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| Mar.6 |
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At least 6 die in blast Another 68 are wounded as a result of a car bomb that exploded in a covered parking lot in Cucuta
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| Mar.12 |
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Rebels attack Bogota Rebels tossed gasoline bombs into 3 city buses, incinerating one, but all the passengers escaped
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| Mar.21 |
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Mudslides kill 19 Torrential rains triggered mudslides in western Colombia and flooding in an eastern border city
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| Apr.21 |
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Gunmen kidnap 8 people in island raid The navy and police were searching for kidnapped by 20 gunmen who raided a island off Caribbean coast
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Montoya wins Grand Prix thriller The Colombian fought off the challenge of McLaren driver Kimi Raikkonen
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| Aug.3 |
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Williams' Montoya wins Grand Prix
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| Aug.17 |
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President under attack Rebels opened fire with machine guns as Alvaro Uribe flew into north-west Colombia
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| Aug.23 |
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Rebels kill journalist, wound another Vehicle in which the reporters were traveling failed to stop at a FARC roadblock
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| Aug.24 |
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Bomb kills at least six on riverboat The woman carrying the bomb died in the explosion. The boat was carrying about 56 passengers
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| Sep.4 |
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$6bn seized in drugs raids US bonds, drugs and £7m of assets have been seized by British police investigating a Colombian cartel
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| Sep.14 |
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Tourists kidnapped 8 foreign tourists have been kidnapped by suspected members of the left-wing guerrilla group FARC
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| Sep.28 |
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Explosion kills 10 An explosion in downtown Florencia wounded 54 others
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| Oct.8 |
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Car bomb kills 5 An apparent car bomb detonated in downtown Bogota. The dead include 2 police officers
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| Oct.25 |
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Rebels kill 13 in election-day| Marxist rebels determined to sabotage a referendum on what would be sweeping constitutional reform | |
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| Nov.11 |
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Police chief resigns amid scandal National Police Chief Gen. Teodoro Campo and his 4 closest deputies resign amid corruption scandal
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| Nov.29 |
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Venezuela closes Colombia border| The move is designed to stop voters from crossing into Venezuela to sign a petition on Chavez's rule | |
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| Dec.15 |
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Rebel leader detained Secret police have captured Wilmer Antonio Marin, a top FARC commander in the capital
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| Dec.20 |
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4 soldiers die in border ambush Colombian gunmen ambushed and shot dead Venezuelan National Guard troops near the two nations' border
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| Dec.22 |
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Hostages freed at last| A Briton and 4 Israeli hostages have been released by the National Liberation Army (ELN) | |
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