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A senior military official said the infantry troops were ambushed by FARC rebels as they conducted a patrol in an area considered a FARC stronghold. "They were attacked with explosives, grenades and firearms," Brigadier General Mario Augusto Valencia, the commander of the army's Third Division, told reporters. |
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Will you be joining festival goers playing baseball or batting a beer can with a Wellington boot at Glastonbury? (Reuters)
Summer is almost upon us which means it is time to dig out those wellies, stock up on the suncream and find your best flower crowns because festival season is here. |
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BOSTON — This city, for so long huddled inward, is slowly breaking out of its winter shell. After Boston’s snowiest winter on record, the last of the ice-encrusted black mounds are finally receding. The Public Garden is still shrouded in earth tones, but tiny buds are just visible on the swaying branches of the weeping willows. |
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The head of the Colombian government for the peace talks with FARC-EP, Humberto de la Calle (C) arrives at Convention Palace in Havana yesterday. AFP/ Bogota. Suspected FARC guerrillas killed 10 soldiers and wounded 17 in a pre-dawn attack in western Colombia Wednesday, the deadliest since the start.... |
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Pope Francis said he would pray for the Pakistani Christian prisoner Asia Bibi on Wednesday as her family seeks to draw attention to the case this week. The pope is pictured here in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, April 12, 2015. Reuters/Tony Gentile. |
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Pope Francis said he would pray for the Pakistani Christian prisoner Asia Bibi on Wednesday as her family seeks to draw attention to the case this week. The pope is pictured here in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, April 12, 2015. Reuters/Tony Gentile. |
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Posted on on April 14, 2015, 5:00PM. New Orleans Metro Education News Three Atlanta educators convicted for their roles in a mass cheating scandal were sentenced to 20 years by a Fulton County judge Tuesday. Tamara Cotman, Sharon Davis-Williams, and Michael Pitts are expected to serve seven of those years behind bars and 13 on probation. |
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Paris has had no news on whether Laurent Stefanini, an openly gay Catholic, has been accepted to serve as its ambassador to the papal state. However despite the lengthy delay -- seen as indicative of a rejection -- French government spokesman Stephane Le Foll said Paris was not changing its nomination. |
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President Santos will travel to conflict zone to determine reasons behind attack.
BOGOTA, Colombia Ten soldiers we killed and 20 others injured early Wednesday in an attack in the southwest department of Cauca. It was the single most deadly attack on the Colombian armed forces since the.... |
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Articolo pubblicato il: 15/04/2015. Pope Francis on Wednesday gave a special greeting to members of the family of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death in Pakistan for blasphemy against the Prophet Mohammed, Vatican Radio reported. Francis greeted Bibi’s husband and daughter and her lawyer.... |
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Portlaoise Parish priest, Monsignor John Byrne has said that asylum seekers in Ireland longer than six, should be given a work permit to allow them to work while waiting on their citizenship to come through. Msgr Byrne was speaking on RTE Radio last week on the 15th anniversary of Direct Provision in Ireland. |
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