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3 hrs ago | Independent.ie

Family of liposuction-death man question wife on validity of marriage

The family of a Dublin man who died while having liposuction in Colombia has questioned the validity of his marriage to his South American wife.

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Related Topix: Wedding, South America, World News, Europe, Ireland

Wed Jun 19, 2013

The Jewish Journal

On a roll with CicLAvia

In late April, some 200,000 people on foot and on cycles - most with two wheels, some with three or four and even one jerry-rigged to be two stories high - swarmed Venice Boulevard, clogging the roadway from downtown Los Angeles to the beach.

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Related Topix: Los Angeles, CA, West Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA), UC Riverside, World News, San Gabriel, CA

The Courier Mailer

Beaverton native joins Berklee Rhythm Collective for cultural ambassador trip to Colombia

The cultural ambassador trip, sponsored by the U.S. Embassy's Cultural Affairs Office, is part of an initiative to promote Colombian and U.S. relations through music education.

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Related Topix: Colombia Travel, Travel, World News,

Spokane 7

Get that bike out, rain or shine

It's always good to celebrate a little bit of the international when it comes to Spokane.

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Related Topix: Spokane, WA, World News

AlertNet

Colombia peace hinges on battleground drug corridors

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Prison, Terrorism

The Gleaner

'Spend within your means' - Colombian economist says Jamaica has no other way out of dire situation

Juan Carlos Echeverry, former finance minister in Colombia, speaks with The Gleaner at the World Bank's offices in New Kingston yesterday.

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Related Topix: World News, Jamaica, Central America, South America, New Kingston, NY

Tue Jun 18, 2013

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Day in Pictures

For larger DIP photos, click on the mouse-over arrow at the lower right corner of the box surrounding the photo.

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Related Topix: World News, Entertainment

Confectionery News

Carries and gingivitis sugar free gum benefits questioned: Study

Colombian researchers have questioned the clinical benefits of sugar free chewing gum to prevent dental carries and gingivitis after a double-blind, randomized controlled trial.

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Related Topix: Gingivitis, Health, World News

Flight Journal

Colombians Take Part in Maple Flag Exercise

Editor's note: This story was written by Col. Maria Cecilia Silva Velasquez of the Fuerza Aerea Colombiana and provides a fascinating look at how one South American county participated in a military training exercise thousands of miles away.

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Related Topix: US News, US Military, US Air Force, Canada, North America, World News, Jamaica

Washington Blade

Colombia marriage deadline approaches

Even though same-sex couples in Colombia will be able to legally register their relationships on Friday, it remains unclear whether some notaries and even judges will allow them to do so.

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Related Topix: South America, Gay/Lesbian, Transgender

India Talkies

Colombian Poet wants to sell testicles for $20K to travel Europe - Indiatalkies.com

Rafael Medina Brochero, 52, wants 20,000 dollars for his private parts - so he can travel the continent with his "Poetry for Peace in Colombia" show.

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Arts, Poetry

Mon Jun 17, 2013

Sys-Con Media

Waymar Resources Ltd. to Extend Term of Warrants

An aggregate of 5,000,000 Series 2010-I warrants were originally issued on June 29, 2010 and were exercisable at $0.55 per share until 5:00 p.m. on June 29, 2012, provided that if the closing price of the common shares of Waymar on the TSXV is equal to or higher than $1.10 per share for a period of 20 consecutive trading days, Waymar may accelerate ... (more)

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Related Topix: South America, World News

Asia News Network

Zumba zooms and booms

Former professional dancer Eva Guidi Ewins brings Zumba classes to Hong Kong's South Lantau.

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Related Topix: Fitness, Aerobics, World News, Europe, United Kingdom

Edmonton Journal

Festival preview: Improvaganza back for 13th edition

The following is entirely typical of the freewheeling 11-day international festival returning June 19 to its appointed task of cracking you up: One of the mainstage acts at Rapid Fire Theatre's Improvaganza is an innovative improv duo called Picnic from Bogota, Colombia.

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Related Topix: World News, Germany

Inside Colombia

Colombia: Beware the zombie drug

Scopolamine is a medicine for motion sickness or tremors. In Colombia, it's a scary drug called 'devil's breath.'

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Related Topix: South America, World News,

Mi2n

Student Led Berklee Rhythm Collective Teach And Perform In Colombia As Cultural Ambassadors

Website: http://www.berklee.edu/news/student-esther-rojas-leads-berklee-rh [...] Berklee College of Music student bassist Esther Rojas, a native of Barranquilla, Colombia, leads the Berklee Rhythm Collective on a two-week trip to her home country to teach and perform.

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Colombia Travel, Travel, Berklee College of Music,

Final Call

Despite peace talks, forced displacement still climbing in Colombia

Drugs and arms traffickers are muscling in on Colombia's Pacific coastal region, forcibly displacing local people, according to a new report by the Consultancy for Human Rights and Displacement .

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Related Topix: South America, World News

The Miami Herald

Colombian 'Endeavor' company breaking into Miami...

BOGOTA Seventeen years ago, Andrés Angulo, a recently graduated doctor, rented an apartment, bought a whiteboard, and began training nurses and medical technicians.

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Medicine, Nursing, Gold's Gym, Health Club

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Hispanically Speaking

Kidnapped Spaniards Planning Marriage Following Release in Colombia

The two Spanish citizens who spent 29 days in captivity in Colombia said Sunday they were doing "very well" and had decided to get married.

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Related Topix: South America, World News

Xinhuanet

Clashes halt crude output in SW Colombia

Colombia's state-run oil company Ecopetrol Sunday suspended crude production in oil-rich southwest Catatumbo, a region of Norte de Santander state, following violent clashes between farmers and security forces in the town of Tibu, a company source said.

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Related Topix: South America, World News