Bogota - Five suitcases belonging to the staff of Australian pop singer and songwriter Kylie Minogue were stolen ahead of a concert in Colombian capital Bogota Saturday, media reports said.
The concert is part of her X 2008 tour and is her first in Latin America.
The suitcases contained computer parts, equipment, costumes and passports of some of the singer's staff. They were stolen from the concert venue late Friday, where people were busy setting up the stage.
Bogota - After eight years in captivity, the former Colombian parliamentarian Oscar Tulio Lizcano managed to flee his captors, the left-wing FARC rebels, with the help of his guard, the country's top defence official said Sunday.
Defence Minister Juan Manuel Santos said Lizcano and a FARC member with the alias of Isaza fled three days ago in the jungles of western Colombia and encountered a military unit, which brought them to safety.
Bogota - Colombia was experiencing a curious controversy Thursday, after a photograph of US presidential candidate Barack Obama was printed on the tickets of a lottery with a jackpot of some 253,000 dollars.
The photograph of the US Democratic Party candidate was used by the lottery in the central Colombian province of Meta as a "tribute" to blacks, according to lottery manager Magdalena Gonzalez.
Bogota - The nongovernmental organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in its annual report Thursday that the government of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe is blocking the probes of politicians with ties to extreme-right paramilitaries.
The 140-page report, under the headline "Breaking the Grip? Obstacles to Justice for Paramilitary Mafias in Colombia," evaluated progress made and criticized "the influence" of the paramilitaries.
Bogota - Colombia's army chief General Mario Montoya on Tuesday resigned over the scandal around the alleged murder of 23 civilians by the military.
Bogota - Five suitcases belonging to the staff of Australian pop singer and songwriter Kylie Minogue were stolen ahead of a concert in Colombian capital Bogota Saturday, media reports said.
Bogota - After eight years in captivity, the former Colombian parliamentarian Oscar Tulio Lizcano managed to flee his captors, the left-wing FARC rebels, with the help of his guard, the country's top defence official said Sunday.
Bogota - Colombia was experiencing a curious controversy Thursday, after a photograph of US presidential candidate Barack Obama was printed on the tickets of a lottery with a jackpot of some 253,000 dollars.
Bogota - The nongovernmental organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in its annual report Thursday that the government of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe is blocking the probes of politicians with ties to extreme-right paramilitaries.
