Columbia

Colombian President Gustavo Petro speaks at the opening of the 16th United Nations Biodiversity Summit in Cali, Colombia October 20, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez/File Photo
Environment

Countries launch nature coalition at UN COP16 talks

The summit of nearly 200 countries under way in the mountain-ringed city of Cali is tasked with figuring out how to halt the decline of nature by 2030, as humans drive habitat loss, climate change,...

Colombia's Environment Minister Susana Muhamad and other participants attend the opening plenary of the 16th United Nations Biodiversity Summit (COP16), in Yumbo, Colombia October 21, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez
Climate Change

What's on the agenda at the COP16 nature summit in Colombia?

A deforested area which, according to authorities, is used for coca leaf plantations is seen during an overflight by the Colombian anti-narcotics police in Putumayo, Colombia November 12, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez/File Photo
World+Biz

Record high Colombian cocaine production in 2023: UN

Environmental activists gather to urge world leaders to take action against climate change in Bogota, Colombia September 8, 2018. Photo: REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez/File Photo
World+Biz

Colombia deadliest country for environmentalists in 2023: Global Witness

Colombian President Gustavo Petro delivers a speech during a military ceremony at the Military School of Cadets General Jose Maria Cordova in Bogota on May 31, 2024. Photo: AFP/Raul ARBOLEDA
Middle East

Colombia to suspend coal sales to Israel over Gaza war

FILE PHOTO: Colombia's President-elect Gustavo Petro speaks after receiving the credential as elected president from Colombia's National Electoral Council, in Bogota, Colombia June 23, 2022. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez/File Photo
World+Biz

Colombia to break diplomatic relations with Israel, President Petro says

Dusk falls at the protest encampment in support of Palestinians at Columbia University, during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in New York City, U.S., April 22, 2024. REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs
USA

Pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at Yale, NYU; Columbia cancels in-person classes

Photo: BSS/AFP
World+Biz

Journalist investigating corruption killed in Colombia

Photo: Collected
World+Biz

Colombian kids rescued after 40 days in jungle leave hospital

Colombian military soldiers pose for a photo after the rescue of child survivors from a Cessna 206 plane that crashed on May 1 in the jungles of Caqueta, in limits between Caqueta and Guaviare, in this handout photo released June 9, 2023. Presidency/Handout via REUTERS
Offbeat

Four Colombian children found alive in jungle weeks after plane crash

A soldier and a dog take part in a search operation for child survivors from a Cessna 206 plane that had crashed in the jungle more than two weeks ago, in Caqueta, Colombia May 17, 2023. Colombian Air Force/Handout via REUTERS
World+Biz

Colombian children found alive in jungle weeks after plane crash

A picture of the late Haitian President Jovenel Moise hangs on a wall before a news conference by interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph at his house, almost a week after his assassination, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti July 13, 2021. Photo :Reuters
Africa

Jamaica to deport Colombian wanted in Haiti president assassination

Colombian nun held hostage in Mali since 2017 has been freed
World+Biz

Colombian nun held hostage in Mali since 2017 has been freed