WORLD IN BRIEF : COLOMBIA : Blast Injures 25; Damage in Millions

A powerful car bomb blew up outside the regional telephone company headquarters in Medellin, injuring 25 people and causing millions of dollars of damage to nearby buildings, police said. A police statement said the 198-pound bomb was packed into a milk churn hidden in the back of a stolen car. No one claimed responsibility for the blast, but police and the government have accused fugitive Pablo Escobar’s Medellin drug cartel of planting a series of car bombs in Medellin and Bogota over the last three months to try to wring concessions out of the government.