He has made much of apparent attempts to hinder peace criticising the delays in releasing prisoners, and accusing the government of telling the International Committee of the Red Cross not to provide safe-conducts for the Zapatists, which both the government and the Red Cross have denied.

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The chair of the session, the former UK prime minister Gordon Brown, said the continent needed billions of dollars of investment in infrastructure, but red tape and cross-border problems were getting in the way.

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These factors, albeit correct, ignore another indicator: many 20-something Colombians are declaring support for the red-shirted, charismatic Chavez, who has a Che Guevara-like attraction for a cross-section of youth, a possibility many of the same leaders in the country's capital said could never happen.

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She grasps the Virgin at the knees, beginning a clockwise oval of hot color the Magdalene's vermilion robe to the orange in Mary's group, to the very warm off-white of the man on the left-hand ladder, to the red-orange garments along the top of the cross, and back down to the weeping man's molten vanilla robe.

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Photographs are black and white, and colours are stark and monochromatic, illuminating the swastika-like arrow cross of the Fascists and the red star of the Communists.

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Angola striker Manucho put the visitors ahead in the 33rd minute with a glancing header from Diego Costa's cross but five minutes later Borja Fernandez was red-carded for a lunge on Diego Perotti.

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In Homs, activists pleaded for emergency aid and the International Committee of the Red Cross which is negotiating for a cease-fire in Syria said its team couldn't enter the besieged city over the weekend to help evacuate the injured.

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Torquay's 10 men poured forward and Stevens went close with a cross-shot before the game took another twist when Howell also saw red following a melee.

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