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A car bomb has been detonated at a police academy in Bogotá, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 20, according to the country’s defence ministry.
The scene outside the General Santander police academy was chaotic, with ambulances and helicopters rushing to the normally tightly controlled facility
More than 10,000 artists, craftspeople and revellers take part in the carnival, a fusion of different cultural celebrations. It takes place every year from 2 to 7 January in the city of Pasto and is on Unesco’s intangible heritage list
Colombians are voting Sunday in a first-of-a-kind referendum that aims to curb corruption in a country where white-collar criminals are fast replacing drug gangs and paramilitary groups in penetrating the upper echelons of power. The referendum seeks to slash the salaries of Colombia's Congress members and to bring laws that make public spending more efficient and transparent.
FILE - In this Nov. 25, 2016 file photo, Rodrigo Londono, top leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, smiles during a roundtable with foreign journalists in Bogota, Colombia. The political party formed b... .
Midterm elections in the U.S., whose intelligence community accused the Kremlin of meddling in the 2016 election to support President Trump, are a target of a repeat effort, Tillerson told Fox News in an interview from Bogota, Colombia. ""There are a lot of ways the Russians can meddle in the elections, a lot of different tools they can use," he said.
Power has been fully restored at the world's busiest airport after more than 1,000 flights were grounded just days before the start of the Christmas travel rush. A sudden power outage caused by a fire in an underground electrical facility brought Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International to a standstill.
Minutes after its midnight deadline to get the electricity back on at the world's busiest airport, Georgia Power announced early Monday that power had been fully restored to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International, where more than 1,000 flights were grounded just days before the start of the Christmas travel rush. A sudden power outage caused by a fire in an underground electrical facility... Minutes after its midnight deadline to get the electricity back on at the world's busiest airport, Georgia Power announced early Monday that power had been fully restored to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International, where more than 1,000 flights were grounded just days before the start of the Christmas travel rush.
Vice-President Mike Pence's visit to Latin America comes amid unrest in Venezuela and concern by its neighbours about a possible American military role. Pence planned to meet with Colombia's president, Juan Manuel Santos, later Sunday at the start of a weeklong trip likely to be dominated by conversations about the crisis in Venezuela.
Trump is eager to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin with full diplomatic... . FILE - In this May 29, 2017, file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures as he speaks during a news conference with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Palace of Versailles, near Paris.
President Donald Trump quietly met a pair of former Colombian presidents last weekend at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, thrusting his administration into an ugly power struggle in Latin America that threatens to undermine the country's controversial peace agreement with rebel leaders. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos is expected to push Trump to support the peace accord with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia at their first meeting at the White House next month.
The arrival of the spring tax bills reminds me that Americans are not getting their money's worth from those who govern us on the city, state or federal level. Let's start with Pittsburgh.
President Juan Manuel Santos on Thursday was celebrating what he called the nation's "first day of peace in 52 years" even as a battle was looming over implementing a historic peace accord with the nation's largest guerrilla group. Colombia's legislature finished approving the 310-page accord with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, late Wednesday, even with an opposition walkout.
26, 2016, file photo, Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos, front left, gives a peace pin to the top commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, Rodrigo Londono, known by the... . FILE - In this April 2, 2016, file photo, opposition leader and former President Alvaro Uribe shakes hands with a supporter as he takes part in a protest against President Juan Manuel Santos' government and to denounce ... .
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has explained to members of the U.S. Congress the details of the modified peace accord reached with FARC guerrillas. The 2016 Nobel Peace Prize recipient told reporters that he had productive Thursday meetings with both Democratic and GOP lawmakers, including the chairman of the Senate's Committee on Foreign Relations, Republican Bob Corker of Tennessee.
Flowers decorate the statue of independence hero Simon Bolivar at the main square in downtown Bogota, Colombia, Friday, Oct. 7, 2016. On Saturday, AT&T announced that it reached a deal to purchase Time Warner for about $85 billion.
European Parliament President Martin Schulz speaking during a news conference after a meeting with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos at the Narino palace in Bogota, Colombia, in this file photo dated August 23, 2016. Colombian Presidency /Handout via Reuters Former European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso addresses a news conference at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium March 5, 2014.
Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos carries to Congress the peace deal with rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, in Bogota, Aug. 25, 2016. Colombia's government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - FARC - are scheduled to officially sign a deal to end half a century of war late next month, officials said Saturday.
Colombia's president is moving fast to hold a plebiscite on a landmark peace deal reached with leftist rebels, presenting to congress Thursday the full text of the accord that he says will end a half-century of bloody combat. "Today is the beginning of the end to the suffering, pain and tragedy of war," President Juan Manuel Santos said Wednesday night in a televised address after the deal was announced in Havana, where talks went on for four years.
Talks on Zika bill fire up in Washington Sen. Nelson says this is a political problem Check out this story on floridatoday.com: http://on.flatoday.com/28rbmjH An Aedes Aegypti mosquito is photographed on human skin in a lab of the International Training and Medical Research Training Center on January 25, 2016, in Cali, Colombia. WASHINGTON - Lawmakers are expected to start ironing out the details of a spending bill to combat Zika during the upcoming week, more than four months after President Obama first asked Congress for nearly $2 billion to fight the mosquito-borne virus linked to birth defects and paralysis.