Colombia Government, Rebels Sign War Victims Compensation Deal

Colombia took a major step toward a final peace deal Tuesday when the government and the Marxist rebel group FARC signed an agreement to compensate victims and punish those responsible for war crimes. "We've never been close to a definitive agreement before," President Juan Manuel Santos wrote in a Twitter message. "The justice agreement was the most complex, the most difficult. It's a very important step to be able to end the conflict soon," he said at a...

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