Posts Tagged ‘manuel’

Colombia evacuates landslide area

Wednesday, December 8th, 2010

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos urges people to evacuate a hillside neighbourhood where a landslide killed more than 30 people on Sunday.

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Drug links mar Colombian football

Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has promised to stop the infiltration of drug money into the country’s professional football clubs.

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Top Colombia rebel leader may be dead

Sunday, November 21st, 2010

A top leader of a leftist guerrilla group in Colombia may have been killed during a bombing of a rebel camp, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said Saturday.

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Floods, mudslides kill 136 in Colombia

Saturday, November 20th, 2010

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos declared a state of calamity in 28 of the nation’s 32 states Thursday due to heavy rains and flooding that have affected 1.2 million people.

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Floods, mudslides kill 136 in Colombia

Five Americans Killed in Juarez

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

Eder Diaz, a 23-year-old student at the University of Texas at El Paso is the latest victim in a series of deadly shootings in the border city of Juarez. Diaz was traveling in a car along with Manuel Acosta, a local from Juarez’s state of Chihuahua,…

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Chavez and Santos continue thaw

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos visits his Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo Chavez, in the latest move to improve once-strained relations.

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Footballer held over sex assault

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

West Ham United defender Manuel da Costa is arrested on suspicion of sexual assault.

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Mets 2, Nationals 1: Mets Have Decided to Replace Minaya and Manuel

Saturday, October 2nd, 2010

The Mets have not yet told Manager Jerry Manuel and General Manager Omar Minaya, who have heard about their impending dismissals through news reports.

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Santos hails Farc ‘turning point’

Monday, September 27th, 2010

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos says the killing of guerrilla leader Mono Jojoy marks the “beginning of the end” for the country’s Farc rebels.

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Colombia rebels kill six police

Friday, September 10th, 2010

Colombia’s Farc rebels kill six policemen, in the latest in a surge of attacks that have killed more than 30 security personnel since President Juan Manuel Santos took office a month ago.

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EU’s Barroso laments jobs crisis

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

The European Commission President, Jose Manuel Barroso, highlights unemployment as a major challenge, in his first “state of the union” speech.

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Chavez and Santos to hold talks

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is to meet his new Colombian counterpart, Juan Manuel Santos, to discuss re-establishing diplomatic relations.

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