GENEVA, August 6, 2008 (AFP) - The international Red Cross said Wednesday it deplored the apparent 'deliberate misuse' of its emblem by Colombian forces during the liberation of hostage Ingrid Betancourt last month.

GENEVA, August 6, 2008 (AFP) - Switzerland's foreign minister is to fly to Colombia Sunday, for a diplomatic trip overshadowed by Bogota's opening of an investigation into an alleged ransom paid for FARC-held Swiss hostages.

MADRID, July 27, 2008 (AFP) - A Spanish judge Sunday released on bail a 57-year-old Spanish woman who is suspected of being the leader of the Spanish cell of Colombian Marxist rebel group FARC, judicial sources said.

MADRID, July 26, 2008 (AFP) - Spanish police said Saturday they had arrested the leader of the Colombian Marxist rebel group FARC in Spain, in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, northeast of Madrid.

Police named the suspect in a statement as a 57-year-old Spanish woman, Maria Remedios Garcia Albert.

BOGOTA, July 25, 2008 (AFP) - Colombia's Marxist FARC rebel group has released 10 hostages who were kidnapped last week, and handed eight of them over to the International Committee of the Red Cross, the ICRC said Thursday.

BOGOTA, July 25, 2008 (AFP) - Colombia's Marxist FARC rebel group has released eight hostages who were kidnapped last week and handed them over to the International Committee of the Red Cross, the ICRC said Thursday.

BOGOTA, July 21, 2008 (AFP) - The brother of the leader of Colombia's notorious FARC guerrillas on Monday called on his sibling to yield to the international clamor demanding the liberation of 700 hostages the rebels are holding.

BOGOTA, July 21, 2008 (AFP) - Colombian leftist rebels faced renewed public pressure to release their remaining jungle-held hostages Monday after more than four million people took to the streets in Colombia and around the world to highlight their plight.

BOGOTA, July 21, 2008 (AFP) - Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets Sunday in Bogota and other world capitals seeking the release of captives still held by leftist rebels in the Colombian jungle.

LONDON, July 20, 2008 (AFP) - One of five Britons kidnapped in Iraq more than one year ago has committed suicide, the group holding them claimed in a video to a Sunday newspaper here, prompting condemnation from Gordon Brown.