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Breaking News Sat, 5 Jul 2008
Colombia's Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos, center, announces that Colombia's military has rescued former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, three U.S. military contractors and 11 other hostages from leftist rebels at a press conference in Bogota, Wednesday, July 2, 2008.
Colombia   Defence   Hostage   Photos   Ransom  
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Colombia Defense Minister Denies Paying Ransom
| Colombian Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos during a press conference in Bogota, 04 Jul 2008 | Colombia's defense minister has denied reports that his government paid a ransom for the release of 1... (photo: AP / William Fernando Martinez)
Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt, center, pats her son Lorenzo Delloye, left, as her nephew Stanislas Betancourt, down, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy look on at the Elysee Palace in Paris
Betancourt   France   Hostage   Paris   Photos  
 Reuters 
Ex-hostage Betancourt gets hero's welcome in Paris
Fri Jul 4, 2008 3:16pm ET | | By Estelle Shirbon | PARIS (Reuters) - French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt was given a hero's welcome on Friday in France, where President Nicolas Sarkozy had m... (photo: AP Photo / Thibault Camus)
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., right, gets a blessing from Monsignor Diego Monroy Ponce as Cindy McCain looks on during his visit to the Basilica de Guadalupe in Mexico City, Thursday, July 3, 2008.  BBC News 
The Latin America question
| He was also aiming to display his foreign policy credentials, with his advisers taking pains to point out that his rival in November's election, Democratic senator Barack Obama, had never been to La... (photo: AP / LM Otero)
Election   Immigration   Photos   S America   Washington  
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. speaks during a news conference held after a town hall meeting in Watertown, S.D., Friday, May 16, 2008.  AOL 
Obama visits traditionally-Republican Montana
BUTTE, Montana (AP) - Barack Obama is celebrating the 4th of July in Butte, Montana, attending a parade and picnic. It's a state that usually gives its three electoral votes to a Republican. Only two ... (photo: AP / Jae C. Hong)
Democrat   Election   Photos   Politics   US  
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Colombia Hostages TVNZ
Released hostages tell of horror
Jul 4, 2008 5:09 PM | Ingrid Betancourt began each day in captivity at 4am, cold and depressed but awake in the dark waiting to hear her mother's words of encouragement o... (photo: AP / Fernando Vergara)
Betancourt   Colombia   FARC   France   Photos  
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez gestures as he arrives for a meeting with the relatives of three Colombian hostages in Barinas, Venezuela, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2008. Chavez said that Venezuelan authorities have made contact with rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, to prepare the release of three ailing hostages held by the rebels, including Perez. Newsday
Colombia hostage rescue sidelines Chavez
| BOGOTA, Colombia - , once a key mediator in securing hostage releases from Colombian rebels, could do little more than phone congratulations to President Alvaro Uribe a... (photo: AP Photo / Fernando Llano)
Colombia   Latin   Photos   Politics   Venezuela  
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, gestures as international Mideast envoy Tony Blair Newsday
Rescued hostage Betancourt to arrive in France
| PARIS - President Nicolas Sarkozy's office says freed hostage Ingrid Betancourt will be greeted in France with a welcome ceremony at an air base and an invitation to th... (photo: AP Photo / Charles Platiau)
Betancourt   France   Hostage   Paris   Photos   Slideshow  
Rescued hostage Ingrid Betancourt, right, speaks as her mother Yolanda Pulecio looks on after Betancourt was rescued from six years of captivity, at a military base in Bogota, Wednesday, July 2, 2008 International Herald Tribune
A surprised France prepares a welcome
| : A jubilant France prepared Thursday to welcome Ingrid Betancourt, the French-Colombian politician freed on Wednesday after six years of captivity by rebels in the Col... (photo: AP / William Fernando Martinez)
Colombia   France   Hostage   Photos   S America  
 Colombia´s former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt asked the country´s military to rescue her from her secret rebel prison, in a bold videotaped message released 18 months after her kidnapping Dawn
Kidnapped presidential candidate freed after six years
| BOGOTA, July 3: Commandos dramatically rescued Colombian-French politician Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages from six years of captivity on Wednesday by posing as... (photo: Colombia Nueva file)
Betancourt   Colombia   FARC   Government   Photos  
Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt, left, embraces her daughter Melanie as her son Lorenzo looks on upon their arrival from France at a military base in Bogota, Thursday, July 3, 2008. Chosunilbo
Betancourt Calls for Negotiated Release of All FARC Hostages
Ingrid Betancourt speaks at news conference, 3 Jul 2008 A day after being freed from Colombian rebels, Ingrid Betancourt is calling for new efforts to win the release of ... (photo: AP / William Fernando Martinez)
Colombia   Defence   France   Photos   Politics  
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- Colombia's continuing hostage pain
- France welcomes ex-hostage
- Colombia Defense Minister Denies Paying Ransom
- Is freed hostage ready to run?
Colombia's Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos, center, announces that Colombia's military has rescued former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, three U.S. military contractors and 11 other hostages from leftist rebels at a press conference in Bogota, Wednesday, July 2, 2008.
Colombia Defense Minister Denies Paying Ransom
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- Rescue the trade deal
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Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., right, gets a blessing from Monsignor Diego Monroy Ponce as Cindy McCain looks on during his visit to the Basilica de Guadalupe in Mexico City, Thursday, July 3, 2008.
The Latin America question
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Culture & Education Science
- Rescuers risked capture as actors in real-life drama
- Canadian feared kidnapped in Colombia
- Colombia shows rescue video
- Canadian confirmed missing in Colombia, feared kidnapped
Shakira
Shakira signs £70m deal with Live Nation
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- Freed Colombian Hostages Reunite With Families
- Llaima volcano erupts
- Human visitors tightly controlled on tours of islands off Ec
- Google in deal with Brazil to fight child porn
The Llaima volcano erupts in Conguillio National Park in southern Chile, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2008.
Llaima volcano erupts
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Technology Energy & Industry
- Google to fight child porn
- Google helps Brazil fight child porn
- Google breaks Amazon tribe's isolation
- Human visitors tightly controlled on tours of islands off Ec
 Google, technology, online, online industry, internet industry, online software, software, entertainment. tp1
Google helps Brazil fight child porn
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- McCain promotes free trade on visit to Colombia
- Petro Vista Completes Acquisition of Morichito Block in Colo
- McCain to tour Colombian drug control efforts
- McCain to tour Colombian drug interdiction efforts, says ill
Shakira
Shakira signs £70m deal with Live Nation
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Sport Health
- Colombia hostage rescue sidelines Chavez
- Military: Freed American hostages in good shape
- Colombia rescue hinged on rebel disarray, payback
- McCain tours Basilica, will meet Mexican president
Tennis
WNBA, swimming, arena football, tennis
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- Betancourt undergoes health tests
- Hero's welcome for Betancourt
- Spiritual strength saved me, says freed Colombian hostage In
- Captives stood cruelty, meager food, boredom
At the top of the cargo ramp of a C-17 Globemaster III, Keith Stansell hugs one of the people who helped him return to the U.S. at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas at 11:31PM July 2, 2008.
Military: Freed American hostages in good shape
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