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• Jailed Colombia Rebels Await New Amnesty Law

  Colombia passes an amnesty law for thousands of rebels. Some fighters are expected to lay down their arms over the next six months.

• UN backs mission to oversee Colombia peace deal

  The United Nations has officially supported the peacetalks between Columbia and FARC as a step to fully end the longest war in Latin America that had started since 1964.

• Colombia negotiators agree UN observer mission to monitor end of civil war

  A civil war is about to end as Columbia government and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia made an agreement to have a 12-month mission to be possible with any ceasefire between the government and rebels. It is said to fully end the conflict that have arisen between the two parties since 1964.

• Twelve dead in ELN rebel attack on Colombian troops

  Colombia's second-largest rebel group, the ELN, killed 12 members of the security forces in the central province of Boyaca on Monday, the government said, as the troops transported votes from the country's regional elections.

• Pope meets Fidel Castro, warns against ideology on Cuba trip

  Pope Francis met Cuba's revolutionary leader Fidel Castro on Sunday hours after warning Cubans to beware the dangers of ideology and the lure of selfishness as their country enters a new era of closer ties with the United States.

• U.S. pressing Cuba to restore diplomatic ties before April - officials

  The United States is pressing Cuba to allow the opening of its embassy in Havana by April, U.S. officials told Reuters, despite the Communist island's demand that it first be removed from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism.

• Colombia's FARC rebels free soldier captured during attack

  Colombia's Marxist FARC rebels have freed a soldier captured during an attack on a military patrol last week in which five other troops were killed, the group said on Friday.

• Colombia rebel chief says peace talks suspension destroyed confidence

  Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos "destroyed" confidence in the peace process by suspending talks and violated the terms of an agreement that brought the rebels to the negotiating table, FARC guerrilla leader Rodrigo Londono said.

• Colombia suspends FARC peace talks after kidnapping of general

  Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos suspended peace talks with Marxist FARC rebels following the kidnapping of an army general, throwing into crisis the nation's efforts to end 50 years of war.