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This undated frame grab from video, posted online by recently formed militant group Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen, shows hostage Elliot Kenneth Arthur of Australia in an unknown location, with a caption reading in Arabic 'I'm Elliot Kenneth Arthur, I'm 82 years old, born in Australia.' An al-Qaida-linked group in Mali has released, Saturday, July 1, 2017, a proof-of-life video showing six foreign hostages, a group that monitors jihadist communications says, shortly before the French president's arrival in the West African country for an anti-terror summit. (Militant Video via AP)

Al-Qaida-linked Mali extremists release hostage video

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FILE - In this June, 27, 2017 file photo, Rodrigo Londono, also known as Timoleon Jimenez or Timochenko, the top commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, gives his speech during an act to commemorate the completion of the disarmament process of FARC rebels, in Buenavista, Colombia. On Sunday, July 2, 2017, Timochenko was hospitalized with stroke, and remains in intensive care in Colombia. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Top Colombian rebel leader in intensive care after stroke

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In this Wednesday, May 10, 2017 photo, a family stands around the body of 6-year-old Victor Serrano Ruiz, who died in a fireworks explosion, inside their two-room cinderblock home in San Isidro, Mexico. An errant firecracker landed on a cache of fireworks and touched off a powerful explosion Tuesday, at a home in the Mexican state of Puebla, killing 11 children and three adults. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

UN: Reintegrating ex-fighters is first challenge in Colombia

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

A cowboy herds his cattle near Buenavista in the municipality of Mesetas, Colombia, Monday, June 26, 2017. On Tuesday, Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos and the FARC’s top commander Timochenko will meet in this area, at one of many rural camps where rebel fighters are making their transition to civilian life, to commemorate the completion of FARC disarmament process. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Colombia takes big step to peace as rebels lay down guns

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

Top Colombian official charged in US with money laundering

By CURT ANDERSON - Associated Press

UN: Colombia disarmament process for individual arms ends

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People cry as they wait for more information on tourists who were on a ferry that sank in a reservoir in Guatape, Colombia, Sunday, June 25, 2017. Nine people were dead and 28 missing after a tourist ferry packed with around 170 passengers for the holiday weekend capsized Sunday on a reservoir near the Colombian city of Medellin, officials said. (AP Photo/Luis Benavides)

15 still missing after tourist boat sinks in Colombia

By Luis Benavides and Christine Armario - Associated Press

Pope Francis leaves at the end of an audience with participants at the 75th Serra foundation's international convention, at the Vatican, Friday, June 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope seeks to encourage Colombian reconciliation with trip

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

NY governor’s 9/11 worker pardon unlikely to spark a trend

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

Yerry Mina nets 2 as Colombia beats Cameroon 4-0 in friendly

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FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2016 file photo, rebel leaders Rodrigo Londono, center, Ivan Marquez, right, and Pastor Alape, left, attend the closing event of the 10th conference of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, in Yari Plains, Colombia. As Colombia’s leftist rebel movement begins making its transition to a political party, chief prosecutor Nestor Martinez rocked the nation on June 2017, by saying he has compiled evidence that the FARC is sitting on an illegal fortune worth hundreds of millions of dollars, a political war chest that outstrips the coffers of traditional parties. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan, File)

FARC’s elusive finances undercut support for Colombia peace

By ALBA TOBELLA - Associated Press

Spain's David Silva celebrates after scoring against Colombia during the international friendly soccer match between Spain and Colombia at the Estadio Nueva Condomina in Murcia, Spain, Wednesday, June 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)

Morata scores late as Spain draws with Colombia in friendly

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Colombian drug trafficker who fled US prison in 1994 caught

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FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 19, 2016 file photo Juventus' Juan Cuadrado controls the ball during the Serie A soccer match between Bologna and Juventus at the Dall' Ara stadium in Bologna, Italy. If there's one player who has benefitted most from coach Massimiliano Allegri's daring five-forward formation at Juventus, it's winger Juan Cuadrado. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, file)

Cuadrado finds room to run in Allegri’s attacking formation

By ANDREW DAMPF - Associated Press

Authorities say cocaine is making comeback in Florida

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Demonstrators hold candles during a vigil for the victims of the clashes with the governments security forces, during protest against President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, May 17, 2017. Several humanitarian organizations and the opposition have accused the security forces of using too much violence during demonstrations against the government, which have left dozens dead.(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

New death in Venezuela puts toll at level of 2014 unrest

By LUZ DARY DEPABLOS - Associated Press

In this Feb. 23, 2017 photo, a U.S. Coast Guard law enforcement team from the USCG cutter Stratton boards a small fishing boat that was stopped carrying close to 700 kilos of pure cocaine, in the Pacific Ocean hundreds of miles south of the Guatemala-El Salvador border. Hidden in the bales of cocaine was a GPS tracking device wrapped inside a condom, a sure sign the drug bosses behind the shipment knew right away it didn't reach its destination. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

US brings in more technology to fight drug smuggling at sea

By DARIO LOPEZ and JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Three months into the implementation of a peace accord with Bogata, rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have surrendered what critics say is a token number of weapons while the production of coca has skyrocketed. (Associated Press/File)

Colombia’s control of FARC peace deal has U.S. skeptics

By Martin Arostegui - Special to The Washington Times