Communist terrorism

A leader of Colombia’s National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas was arrested on Feb. 15 in Bogota on suspicion of planning two attacks on police that killed seven and left dozens wounded, prosecutors said.

Dimitris Koufodinas, a leading member of November 17, Greece's most deadly guerrilla group, emerged from Attica's maximum-security Korydallos Prison at 9 a.m. on Friday on a two-day leave, just three months after a previous furlough, against a strong reaction by opposition politicians and the US government.

A leading member of November 17, Greece's most deadly guerrilla group, has been granted another two-day leave from prison.

Dimitris Koufodinas is expected to leave the maximum security prison of Korydallos in Athens on Friday at 9 a.m.

BARRANQUILLA, Colombia - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has suspended the ongoing peace talks between his government and the Army of National Liberation (ELN) after a faction of the rebel group claimed responsibility for several attacks that left seven policemen dead in the northern coastal region of the country.

Ten people died in the crash of a military helicopter in the northwestern region of Colombia, Reuters reported.

The cause of the crash is not yet known. The rebel Army for National Liberation is operating in the area, which has ceased the armistice with the government and resumed its attacks.

Nikos Maziotis, the self-professed leader of the Revolutionary Struggle urban guerrilla group, was attacked in Attica's Korydallos Prison with a knife by fellow inmates, according to a post on an anti-establishment website on Friday.

The post claimed that Maziotis sustained a stab wound to the stomach while "around 10 prisoners" repeatedly punched him in the head and ribs.

The Athens University of Economics senate has reiterated its call to the Greek state to ensure the necessary conditions that will enable the institution's unhindered operation after members of anti-establishment groups stormed its lecture halls and workshops on Friday, forcing out teaching staff and students.

At least eight suspected Maoist rebels were killed in a gunfight with police who ambushed their hideout in southern India on Dec. 14.

Doctors at the Geniko Kratiko state hospital in Nikaia, near Piraeus, where two convicted members of the Revolutionary Struggle guerrilla group were transferred earlier this week following a protracted hunger strike, on Wednesday issued a statement accusing authorities of violating the right of patients to refuse treatment and illegally using a hospital as a place of detention.

The self-professed leader of the Revolutionary Struggle urban guerrilla group, Nikos Maziotis, was in the hospital unit of Attica's high-security Korydallos Prison on Tuesday after starting a fire in his cell late on Monday in protest at penitentiary authorities' refusal to grant the demands of him and his partner Pola Roupa, who are both serving time for terrorist acts.