Tag: #Colombia
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Colombia Quake Rescue Enters Critical Phase as Toll Rises
KEY DEVELOPMENTS: Colombia’s earthquake death toll has risen to 265, with hundreds still reported missing. Rescue teams are racing against the critical 72-hour window to locate survivors beneath collapsed structures. International humanitarian assistance has begun reaching affected areas as the UN scales up its response. BOGOTA (Arab News) — August 13, 2026: Rescue teams in…
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Colombian military accused of 6,400 extra-judicial killings
Bogota, Feb 18 (AFP/APP):Colombia’s military carried out at least 6,400 extra-judicial killings and presented them as combat deaths from 2002 to 2008, a special court set up under a peace accord said on Thursday. That number is almost three times higher than previous estimates. The court, called the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, is investigating crimes…
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Colombia to offer temporary protected status to 1m Venezuelan migrants
Bogota, Feb 8 (AFP/APP):Colombia will temporarily normalize the status of almost one million undocumented Venezuelan migrants, President Ivan Duque said on Monday during a visit by the UN Refugee Agency. Some 56 percent — around 950,000 — of the 1.7 million Venezuelans to have arrived in Colombia fleeing economic and political crises in their homeland…
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Five ‘Migrants’ Dead in Shipwreck off Colombian Coast
Five migrants are dead in a shipwreck off the Colombian coast.
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Odebrecht Fined $50 million in Colombia over Corruption
Odebrecht has been fined $50 million in Columbia over corruption.
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Colombia surpasses one million Covid-19 cases: Ministry
Bogota, Oct 25 (AFP/APP):Colombia on Saturday surpassed the benchmark of one million cases of Covid-19 registered in the country since the beginning of the pandemic, the health ministry announced. The last 24 hours saw 8,769 new infections, bringing the total to 1,007,711 since the first case was detected on March 6, the ministry said. Deaths…
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Colombia: Clashes between protesters and police kills several
Baaghi TV: Clashes between protesters and police in Colombia have left several people injured, with 13 people killed in four days of protests. Riots erupted across the South American country of Colombia after a video of a lawyer being killed in police custody went viral. Protesters hurled stones at police officers. Security forces fired tear…
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Third general strike keeps pressure on Colombia’s Duque
Bogota, Dec 5 (AFP/APP): Thousands of protesters took part in anti-government demonstrations in Colombia’s capital Bogota and other cities Wednesday during the country’s third general strike in two weeks. Strike leaders say they intend to maintain pressure on right-wing President Ivan Duque’s government, after brushing aside his appeals to cancel the strike on the grounds…
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Duque to meet with Colombia protest leaders
Bogota, Nov 26 (AFP/APP): Under-fire Colombian President Ivan Duque will meet with protest leaders on Tuesday, a minister announced, after five consecutive days of anti-government protests. “Tomorrow, the president will meet with representatives of the national strike,” said labor minister Alicia Arango on Monday at the Casa Narino presidential palace in Bogota. B The meeting…
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Duque opens Colombia talks following protests: official
Bogota, Nov 25 (AFP/APP): Under-fire Colombian President Ivan Duque, the target of days of unprecedented anti-government protests, on Sunday opened a national dialogue aimed at assuaging popular anger, even as activists called for a major new protest. Demonstrations continued in the capital Bogota, and in Medellin and Cali. While those protests were smaller than previous…