At least seven FARC militants were killed in clashes in a rural area of southwest Colombia, the military said Sunday. The military also seized six rifles, two pistols, explosives, grenades and weapons suppliers after the fighting Saturday in Narino province, near the border with Ecuador, General Leonardo Barrero said. The FARC -- the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia -- is the country's largest leftist guerrilla group, and the insurgency it has waged since 1964 is the oldest in Latin America.

Bogota, May 2 (EFE).- A prominent Colombian investigative journalist emerged unhurt after two gunmen fired shots at his car, the editor of newsweekly Semana said Thursday. Ricardo Calderon "emerged completely unhurt, thanks to the fact that he managed to throw himself, in the middle of the night, to the side of the highway, while these assassins fired at the vehicle and left five bullet holes," Alejandro Santos said.

The FARC rebel delegation at Colombian peace talks on Wednesday called for ending what it labeled Bogota's neoliberal economic policy as the insurgents made new demands. The leftist guerrillas waging Latin America's longest-running insurgency also proposed tax reform, the drafting of a new constitution and guarantees for farmers and other rural people to be involved in shaping policy. The demands appeared aimed at addressing the social and economic roots of the decades-old conflict, which began in the 1960s as a peasant revolt against wealthy landowners.

Five FARC militants, a policeman and a soldier were killed in recent days, authorities said Monday as peace talks aimed at ending the long-running conflict were set to resume. In the southern Caqueta department, five militants from the leftist FARC rebel group were killed and a soldier wounded in fighting in a rural area, the army operational chief there said. In a separate military operation in the same town of Puerto Rico, troops captured four guerrillas and seized weapons and explosives.