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In this photograph taken on August 30, 2015, Indian locals peer at the spot where the mortal remains of Sheena Bora, the daughter of former Indian media executive Indrani Mukerjea, were found in the forest near Gagode village on Pen Khopoli road of Raigad district in central Maharashtra state. A former Indian media executive has been arrested on suspicion of murdering her daughter for having an affair with her stepson, Mumbai police said. Indrani Mukerjea is accused, along with two others, of strangling Sheena Bora to death in 2012 before dumping her body in a forest in western Maharashtra state and setting it alight. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
The best stories from around the world.
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US rapper Snoop Dogg performs at Macarena bullring in Medellin, Antioquia department, Colombia on March 11, 2016. AFP PHOTO/ RAUL ARBOLEDA / AFP / RAUL ARBOLEDA (Photo credit should read RAUL ARBOLEDA/AFP/Getty Images) Snoop Dogg Isn’t in Romania, But That Doesn’t Mean You Shouldn’t Be!
Snoop Dogg accidentally said he was in Romania this week. Now Romanians are encouraging others to visit.
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GettyImages-458645274_960 Plan Colombia Shouldn’t Be the Price of Peace with the FARC
Colombia has undergone an economic transformation over the last 15 years — and if the deal to end the country's 50-year blows that up, it will be a disaster.
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Spyware For Sale Final Flat 2 The Espionage Economy
U.S. firms are making billions selling spyware to dictators.
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U.S. Army soldier provides security for infantry patrolling through Dandarh village, Afghanistan. 10 Conflicts to Watch in 2016
From Syria to the South China Sea, the conflicts and crises the world will face in the coming year.
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URIBE, COLOMBIA: Members of the revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla forces, (L-R) Ivan Rios, an unidentified woman fighter, Joaquin Gomez, Marcos Calarca, Jairo and Pedro Aldana, arrive in Uriba, Colombia, 25 October 1999, for a new round of peace talks with government representatives. The talks resumed 24 October 1999 after months of delays and setbacks renewing hopes for an end to more than three decades of civil war. (ELECTRONIC IMAGE) (Photo credit should read PEDRO UGARTE/AFP/Getty Images) Stories You Missed in 2015
From the winding down of Colombia's 50-year war to Ireland's booming economy, here are the stories that flew under the radar this year.
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Young men take part in the third world bicycle ride against drug trafficking and in favor of the legalization of self-cultivation of marijuana for medicinal and recreational purposes in Medellin, Antioquia department, Colombia on October 4, 2014. AFP PHOTO/Raul ARBOLEDA (Photo credit should read RAUL ARBOLEDA/AFP/Getty Images) Drug-Torn Colombia Just Made (Medicinal) Weed Legal
Colombia is still fighting the cocaine trade but is embracing medicinal pot.
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GettyImages-465590760 crop Colombia’s Women, Tried By War, Find New Power
Women suffered the most from Colombia's five-decade war. Yet it also forced them to find a new political voice.
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TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY GUILLERMO BARROS A refugee claimant Colombian woman poses with her daughter at her home in the small Ecuadorean port of San Lorenzo, Esmeraldas province, northwestern Ecuador, near to the border with Colombia, on November 08, 2012. AFP PHOTO/Eitan Abramovich (Photo credit should read EITAN ABRAMOVICH/AFP/Getty Images) For Colombia’s Displaced, a Peace Deal Doesn’t Mean a Path Home
Homecoming is still a long way off, for those who even want to return.
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Soldiers patrol during a march on August 7, 2015, in Cali, Colombia against the government of president Juan Manuel Santos and the ongoing peace process with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas. AFP PHOTO / RAUL ARBOLEDA (Photo credit should read RAUL ARBOLEDA/AFP/Getty Images) Can Peace Break Out in Colombia?
The tentative, but historic, peace deal between the government and the FARC may not be popular. But it still might work.
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GettyImages-486185944_960 Maduro’s Wag the Dog Moment
With tanking poll numbers, an economy in free-fall, and an opposition that's out for blood, is Venezuela's president manufacturing a national crisis to buy himself time?
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GettyImages-104945748 crop The Venezuelan President’s Birther Problem
President Maduro has been expelling Colombian migrants from Venezuela. But was he once one of them?
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GettyImages-485188698 crop How Colombians Are Paying to Save the Venezuelan Regime
Venezuelan President Maduro is driving out Colombians by the hundreds to prop up his faltering rule.
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GettyImages-482201098 Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro Does Not Appreciate Comparisons to Donald Trump
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro hits back at opponents who compared him -- unfavorably -- to Donald Trump.
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A crane carry part of 9,517 weapons seized from the FARC and ELN guerrillas criminal gangs and organized crime, before being melted in furnaces of the National Steel Factory (Sidenal), on November 25, 2014 in Sogamoso, Boyaca department, Colombia. The metal (iron and steel), obtained from these weapons will be used in the manufacture of rods used to reinforce the foundations and columns of schools and hospitals in areas of armed conflict. AFP PHOTO/Guillermo LEGARIA (Photo credit should read GUILLERMO LEGARIA/AFP/Getty Images) How to Pull Colombia Back From the Brink
With a peace process on the rocks, the United States is an indispensable resource when it comes to Colombia’s future security and prosperity.
