Colombia's FARC Steps Up Attacks on Energy Infrastructure, Kill 3 Police Officers

Colombia's FARC rebels shot dead three police officers on Thursday and brought down an energy pylon, cutting off power to half a million people in the country's south, the military said, as the Marxist group stepped up attacks amid stumbling peace talks. Members of the FARC, or the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, opened fire on the three police officers patrolling a stretch of the southwestern Pan-American Highway on Thursday and detonated explosives a few kilometers away...

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