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US unseals indictments against 17 alleged leaders of Colombia's biggest cocaine-smuggling gang

BOGOTA, Colombia – U.S. prosecutors unsealed indictments against 17 alleged leaders of Colombia’s largest cocaine-trafficking organization in a move seeking to shore up bilateral cooperation in the drug war. The charges against members of the so-called Usuga clan were announced Tuesday by Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and Miami-based U.S. …

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US Marine unit to be sent to Bulgaria as part of American effort to reassure NATO allies

BERLIN – A U.S. Marine Corps commander says a unit equipped with tanks, light armored vehicles and artillery will be sent to Bulgaria this fall as part of American plans to help reassure NATO allies worried by Russia’s involvement in Ukraine. Brig. Gen. Norman Cooling, deputy commander of U.S. Marine …

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UN envoy urges restraint amid standoff in Colombia between police, residents of farming town

BOGOTA, Colombia – A United Nations envoy is urging restraint amid a tense standoff on the front lines of Colombia’s conflict between security forces and farmers who expelled police allegedly under pressure from leftist rebels. Hundreds of riot police were deployed Saturday to the rural hamlet of El Mango in …

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