Communist terrorism

Colombia's government and ELN rebels have agreed to a ceasefire after months of talks, the rebels announced on Sept. 4. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos also confirmed the announcement and said that the government has agreed to a bilateral ceasefire with the ELN that will last 102 days.

Colombia's National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla group said a Russian-Armenian citizen it held hostage for six months was killed in April while trying to escape, a startling admission that risks throwing current peace talks with the government into jeopardy. 

The Greek Police (ELAS) is hoping that forensic tests on remnants of a bomb that detonated outside a branch of Eurobank in central Athens last week and footage from surveillance cameras in the area might yield insights about the perpetrators behind the attack.

BOGOTÁ, Colombia - Seven people were killed during two ambushes at the western and eastern edges of the Colombian jungle and the government has blamed the Army of National Liberation (ELN) while the rebels have placed the blame on right-wing paramilitary unit operating in the areas as the two sides attempt peace talks.

Members of the Rouvikonas anarchist group entered the head office of the Athens Law School in central Athens on Wednesday morning and temporarily occupied it before leaving at 12.30 p.m.

Police on Monday were seeking the five assailants who attacked a riot police unit on Sunday night in the central Athens district of Kypseli, pelting them with stones and other objects.

The perpetrators fled immediately after the attack into surrounding streets.

There were no injuries. 

Police bomb disposal experts defused an explosive device comprising a hand grenade on Saturday after receiving an anonymous caller telephoned a threat that the bomb would detonate outside the police precinct in Dafni, southern Athens.

The bomb was found in a bag that had been placed in a small park behind the police precinct. 

QUITO, Ecuador - With the help of neighbor and host Ecuador, Colombia's government has finally entered into peace talks with the nation's second-largest rebel group, the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) or the Army of National Liberation, in Quito.

The Colombian government has opened the first round of peace talks with the ELN rebel group, seeking to end a 53-year conflict that has killed more than 260,000.

Guerrilla group Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire has claimed responsibility for six arson attacks, on banks, a security firm and diplomatic vehicles, in a statement posted on an anarchist website.