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Colombia has extradited the head of Colombia's most powerful drug cartel to face trafficking and murder charges in the United States.

A former member of Colombia's FARC rebel group is the first person to take advantage of a special French asylum offer. The rebel arrived in Paris with former French-Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt.

Chilean naval vessels completed the evacuation of 89 passengers of the cruise ship 'City of Ushuaia," stranded in Antarctica on Thursday, confirmed Commander Alan Nettle, chief of operations of the Third Naval Area.

Brazil and Paraguay will build a second border bridge over the river Parana, a project that will begin next year and be completed in 2012, according to the agreement reached between the two countries and published today in the Official Journal.

The Colombian Navy and the Administrative Department of Security [DAS] delivered a hard blow to drug trafficking by locating and destroying a makeshift workshop where a series of semi-submersible craft were built for drug trafficking service.

On December 8th, Buenos Aires, the capital of tango, will celebrate that musical genre with “The Great National Milonga,” which is expected to draw a multitude of people to dance in two-four time to the music in the streets of Buenos Aires.

GLASGOW, November 18th, 2008 (AFP) – This Wednesday, the Argentine Soccer Selection is playing a friendly match against Scotland at Hampden Park, a stadium located three kilometers away from where Alexander Watson Hutton, founder and first president of the Argentine Football Association (AFA), was born.

*Mauro Costa-Mattioli recognized for studies of how memories are formed*

AYOKO KAZERNE, Suriname - A delegation of Brazilian military officials received an operational overview of the Beyond the Horizons 2008 - Suriname exercise from U.S. Army South organizers July 19-21 at the Ayoko Kazerne Base Camp to familiarize themselves with humanitarian operations being conducted throughout the country.