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Incumbent President Alvaro Uribe is favored to win Colombia’s May 28 elections, a result that would mark a departure from the trend that has seen left-leaning governments come to power around the reg…

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Since cutting ties in 1979, U.S.-Iran dialogue has been sparse and largely fruitless.