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From correspondents in Americas, 12:00 PM IST Bogota, Nov 2 (EFE) A suspected member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), wanted by the US on terrorism charges, has been arrested, Colombian authorities said....
Gustavo Moncayo prays he will be reunited with his son this week, 12 years after he was seized by guerrillas In late December 1997, Gustavo Moncayo received a phone call from his son Pablo, 19, who was doing his military...
A teacher has described the “horrible” ordeal after she was accused of banging a six-year-old pupil's hand on a desk in a temper and taken to court. Halina Glebocki, 26, said she had been through a traumatic four months and had...
Donderdag 22 oktober 2009 | Reporters Without Borders ] Renowned Colombian journalist Herbin Hoyos Medina, on 8 October narrowly escaped a murder attempt blamed on the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
Last Friday's announcement of US President Barack Obama as the recipient of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize has turned heads around the world. There's been an outcry, from the right, the left, and the centre, that Obama - a...
President Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is praised in many countries as a reflection of a "new hope" in world politics, but others worry it came too soon. Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama only nine...
Sima Samar, women's rights activist in Afghanistan: "With dogged persistence and at great personal risk, she kept her schools and clinics open in Afghanistan even during the most repressive days of the Taliban regime, whose...
STOCKHOLM (AFP) - The Nobel prize season opens Monday with the announcement of the Medicine Prize and but the field is still wide open for the prestigious Peace Prize. The Nobel Peace Prize committee said last week it had still...
Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt, shown at a military base near Paris July 4, 2008. (UPI Photo/ David Silpa) | TORONTO, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt says she is convinced the guerrillas who held her in the...
Ingrid Betancourt, a Franco-Columbian politician and former hostage, adjusts her cap as she receives an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Montreal in Montreal, September 26, 2009. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi (CANADA...
