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Search for: Offline summarization (match summaries) Hybrid summarization Online summarization Offline summarization (match articles) U.S. World Finance Sci/Tech Entertainment Sports View Today's Images Back to Archive Index About Newsblaster About today's run Newsblaster in Press Academic Papers Article Sources: washingtonpost.com (125 articles) nytimes.com (97 articles) seattletimes. nwsource.com (88 articles) boston.com (75 articles) cbc.ca (75 articles) news.bbc.co.uk (72 articles) latimes.com (67 articles) baltimoresun.com (39 articles) abcnews.go.com (33 articles) foxnews.com (31 articles) msnbc.msn.com (27 articles) suntimes.com (26 articles) timesonline.co.uk (26 articles) haaretz.com (24 articles) nypost.com (19 articles) ft.com (16 articles) cnn.com (15 articles) sfgate.com (12 articles) technology. timesonline.co.uk (12 articles) topics.nytimes.com (10 articles) dallasnews.com (6 articles) cbsnews.com (5 articles)	Colombians march, Shakira sings, to demand release of rebel-held hostages Summary from multiple countries, from articles in English BOGOTA, Colombia - Well over a million Colombians, clad in white and cheering " No more kidnapping marked their independence day on Sunday with marches and concerts demanding freedom for hostages still held by leftist rebels. (article 3) Demonstrators chanted "freedom" in rallies across the Andean nation and in some 40 cities abroad including Paris, London, Miami, Beijing, Sydney and New York. (article 3) People cheer Sunday during a peace concert dedicated to hostages still held by FARC that was part of the Independence Day celebrations in Leticia, Colombia. (article 1) Hundreds of thousands of Colombians have taken to the streets to call for an end to kidnapping and a halt to the country's 44-year civil conflict. (article 6) PARIS - Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt took the stage and shook her hips to a Colombian superstar's guitar riffs, leading the crowd in chants of " Freedom for all. (article 4) The recently freed French-Colombian politician, Ingrid Betancourt, has urged her former captors, the Marxist Farc rebels, to release all hostages. (article 5) Ms Betancourt was leading a rally in the French capital, Paris - one in a series of global demonstrations calling for an end to kidnapping and for peace. (article 5) Other summaries about this story: Summary from United States, from articles in English (2 articles) [compare] Summary from the United Kingdom, from articles in English (3 articles) [compare] Summary from Canada, from articles in English (2 articles) [compare] Event tracking: Track this story's development in time Story keywords FARC, Colombia, Betancourt, hostages, Colombian Source articles Colombians demand freedom for hostages on independence day (cbc.ca, 07/20/2008, 490 words) Colombians march, Shakira sings, to demand release of rebel-held hostages (cbc.ca, 07/20/2008, 508 words) Colombians march for hostages release (msnbc.msn.com, 07/20/2008, 667 words) Paris concert presses for Colombia hostage release (seattletimes.nwsource.com, 07/20/2008, 625 words) Betancourt in plea to Farc rebels (BBC News, 07/20/2008, 346 words) Colombia dares to dream of peace (BBC News, 07/20/2008, 525 words) Ingrid Betancourt's homecoming (timesonline.co.uk, 07/18/2008, 464 words) blaster@cs.columbia.edu