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Colombia's biofuel industry is increasingly coming under scrutiny for human rights abuses.

Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya said he was getting on a flight home to reclaim his post on Sunday, accompanied by the U.N. General Assembly president and a group of journalists.

COLOMBIA'S TOP STORIES: Interpol is deciding whether to honor a request by Ecuador to arrest former Colombia Defense MInister Juan Manuel Santos.

Seven members of the U.S. armed forces, including from left, Petty Officer First Class Sherwin Shane Shepherd, of Guyana, Sgt.

BOGOTA - Colombian pop star Shakira says after her latest album is born she plans to undertake a new labor: multiple children.

Soldiers ringed President Manuel Zelaya's modest home, spilled into the cul-de-sac and swarmed the neighborhood, blocking what little traffic there was in a posh corner of the Honduran capital so early on a Sunday morning.

COLOMBIA'S TOP STORIES: Colombia is in shock by the "King of Pop's" death, whose music has been enjoyed by many generations.

Colombian authorities have seized two tons of cocaine after chasing down a speedboat apparently bound for Central America, an official said.

U.S. District Judge Alexander Williams sentenced Eduardo Puentes, a/k/a "Carlos," a/k/a "The Colombian," age 43, of Rockville, Maryland, today to 41 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to transport at least 100 women from New York and New Jersey to Maryland to employ them as prostitutes, announced United ...

MPs from all parties are calling for an end to all UK military aid to Colombia, citing murders and human rights abuses by the country's security forces.

Barranquilla in Colombia is the most important coastal city with a distinct characteristic: no rainwater drainage systems, so whenever it rains, the whole city floods with dangerous fast running rivers replacing roads.

A supporter of ousted Honduras' President Manuel Zelaya throws rocks at police during clashes near the presidential residency in Tegucigalpa, Monday June 29, 2009.

A year after Colombian military agents disguised as international aid workers helicoptered Ingrid Betancourt and three U.S. military contractors to freedom, an offer by their former leftist rebel captors to unilaterally free two hostages is in limbo.

The crew of the detected a suspicious go-fast vessel departing Panama while patrolling Caribbean international waters June 21, and launched a helicopter to further investigate the vessel.

A man, wearing a face mask as a precaution against swine flu, is seen through a glass window as he seeks medical attention at a waiting area of a hospital in Buenos Aires, Tuesday, June 30, 2009.

It's always the same: the TV audience is grief-stricken and indignant that he is no longer with us, but they continue to laugh along with him.

As he meets today with President Uribe, who is currently embroiled in a number of human rights, corruption, and abuse of power scandals, President Obama must stress that Colombia's rights record matters significantly to the country's partnership with the United States, urges a group of human rights and Latin America experts.

President Barack Hussein* Obama has yet to condemn the mullahs. He has been awful quick to side with Castro and Chavez against regime change in Honduras .

President Alvaro Uribe, right, a close Bush administration ally, is to meet with President Obama today.

A north-west London "delivery man" who helped the world's biggest cocaine supplier flood Britain with millions of pounds of the drug has been jailed for five and a half years.