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The UN investigator, former lawmaker and four former priests are among more than 600 alleged communist guerrillas the Philippines wants declared "terrorists", according to a Government petition filed in court. The Department of Justice last month said it wanted a Manila court to declare the Communist ...

Colombia's FARC political party on Thursday dropped out of this year's presidential race, as their candidate, former guerrilla commander Rodrigo ... accords by not creating a safe political environment for dissenting voices, and for not releasing former guerrillas that the group considers political prisoners.

To anyone even remotely familiar with the inner workings of New York's contemporary art scene, this particular guerrilla art intervention, in every respect, screams of the Polish fiber and knitwear artist, Olek. When asked over the phone about the Guggenheim intervention, Olek — an irreverent cross ...

Colombia's security forces dealt a major blow to guerrilla group ELN on Tuesday, killing 10 alleged rebels and arresting another three in the north of the country. Defense Minister Luis Carlos Villegas said the military operation took place in Caceres, Antioquia. According to the minister, the alleged guerrillas ...

"Hello, we're from the internet" is an art project that took over the MoMA's Jackson Pollock room without permission. SHARE · TWEET · Mack DeGeurin. Mar 5 2018, 7:14am. Image: Mack DeGeurin. A collective of eight internet artists transformed the Jackson Pollock room in the New York City Museum of Modern Art into their ...

An altar server holds a text during a celebration of the Feast of the Ascension at the "underground" Zhongxin Bridge Catholic Church in Tianjin, China on May 24, 2015. Greg Baker—AFP/Getty Images. By Laignee Barron / Hong Kong. March 5, 2018. Rev. C. has nearly finished his latest book, a compilation of daily ...

Ikom - For the first time in his life, Victor Obi believes that the only way to win freedom in Cameroon is with a gun. "I don't want to die, but the only future is our independence, and they will not give it to us," said the student, whose name has been changed for his own safety. The 25-year-old is camped out in a ...

On Saturday, Defense Minister Luis Carlos Villegas, said Colombia's army had launched a retaliatory attack on the National Liberation Army (ELN) after the left-wing guerrilla group blew up a bridge in Cesar Department in the north and attacked a truck using an explosive device, RCN Radio reported.

Politics is proving to be a brutal battleground for Colombia's former FARC guerrillas. ... The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, was the hemisphere's oldest and largest guerrilla group until it signed a peace deal in 2016 that allowed its members to disarm in exchange for the right to ...

Peru's central Ayacucho region was hit hard by the conflict that plagued the country from the 1980s to 2000. It was the scene of massacres by the Shining Path guerrillas and atrocities committed by the army. Thousands of people lost their lives and thousands more are still missing to this day. Twenty-five ...

Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos on Wednesday said he was considering to end peace talks with the ELN, the country's last-standing guerrilla group. “I am in a dilemma about what to do with the ELN: Do I insist or do I adhere to the public opinion? Because the entire public opinion is in favor of ...

Calling the campaign a type of “guerrilla warfare,” he gives them targets for how many doors to knock on, votes to turn out and Facebook Live videos to produce. “This guy [Oliveira] has the teachers' association, the AFL-CIO, the politiqueros, the whole Democratic Party. And we got y'all.” A 27-year-old ...