First 450 paramilitary fighters in Colombia turn in their weapons
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TURBO, Colombia : Some 450 Colombian paramilitaries handed over weapons, the first of at least 3,000 right-wing fighters due to surrender their arms as an initial gesture in a peace deal.
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Arab militants and insurgents who ruled the volatile city of Falluja before a U.S.-led offensive this month had enough weapons to take over all of Iraq, Marine officers said on Wednesday.
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Soldiers carrying automatic weapons moved closer to a police station seized by paramilitary nationalists over the weekend in this remote Andean town after the Interior Ministry said Monday it was preparing to storm the building, and a police sharpshooter killed one rebel on the roof of the station.
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Heavily armed soldiers take up key positions in the capital of Guinea-Bissau, after gunshots are heard.
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BARRANQUILLA, Colombia -- Pedro Luis Daza, a 40-year-old telecommunications technician, dressed up as guerrilla leader Simon Trinidad, who was recently extradited to the United States. One of his two brothers masqueraded as a US Army adviser in Colombia, complete with a realistic-looking rifle. The other posed as a Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia rebel who was recently captured in Venezuela.
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Believing that Colombia's violence had ebbed, Giovanni Colmenares and his family moved from the United States back to Colombia last year, opened a bar in Bogota and were looking to buy an apartment. But then one day assailants hustled him into a car and put a gun to his head.
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Colombia arrests a series of right-wing paramilitaries as the peace process enters a delicate phase.
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About 700,000 Colombians have taken part in nationwide protests against President Alvaro Uribe.
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Fighting between Colombia's two main guerrilla groups has forced around 2,000 people from their homes in a rare mass displacement near the border with Venezuela, the Red Cross and authorities said on Wednesday.
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By Jason Webb BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia is proposing to meetwith Marxist rebels in a foreign embassy to negotiate therelease of 50 imprisoned guerrillas in exchange for 72 hostagesincluding three Americans.
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Colombia took steps to free jailed rebel fighters on Friday, hoping to persuade guerrilla commanders to hand over hostages they have held for years, including a French-Colombian politician and three Americans.
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More than 900 right-wing paramilitary fighters surrendered their weapons Tuesday, but a leading international rights group criticized the demobilization process and said the Colombian government is letting war criminals off the hook.
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Gun battles between federal forces and drug-cartel members equipped with rocket-propelled-grenade launchers may give the impression that there is a war in Mexico.
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Shi&#39;ite rebels have started handing in weapons as part of a five-day disarmament that hopes to defuse recurring violence in Baghdad.
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Colombia's right-wing paramilitary group, the AUC, promises to demobilise 3,000 fighters by the end of 2004.
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By Hugh Bronstein BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia's biggest right-wingparamilitary group said on Thursday it would disband 3,000 ofits fighters before the end of the year, in what the groupcalled a good faith gesture as it pursues peace talks with thegovernment.
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New data shows that police officers forcibly stopped 508,540 individuals last year, and in many cases searched them for illegal weapons.