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Colombia's Congress has voted to bar presidents from seeking re-election.

• 05 июня 2015, 11:28

Olga Lucia Alvarez says it is her vocation to be a Catholic priest, and she is not going to let gender or excommunication stop her from preaching the gospel.

• 02 апреля 2015, 14:50

Kazakhstani boxer Kanat Islam (19-0, 16 KOs) has defeated Orlando de Jesus Estrada and increased his rating in the super welterweight division.

• 26 марта 2015, 23:28

Colombia's Paulina Vega was crowned Miss Universe Sunday, beating out contenders from the United States, Ukraine, Jamaica and The Netherlands.

• 26 января 2015, 17:17

Prince Charles and his wife were welcomed to Colombia with military honors.

• 30 октября 2014, 12:35

Bioactive ingredients found in cocoa sharply reversed age-related memory decline in a group of volunteers, scientists reported.

• 27 октября 2014, 11:15

Twelve adults and five children suspected of child sex crimes and human trafficking have been arrested in Colombia in a joint operation with the United States.

• 15 октября 2014, 14:42

The head of Colombian drug kingpin P. Escobar's hitmen is set to be released from prison after helping prosecutors convict a former justice minister.

• 27 августа 2014, 14:20

Colombian pop star Shakira's 2010 hit song "Loca" is an illegal copy of a tune written by a Dominican musician in 1998.

• 21 августа 2014, 15:08

Homicides in Colombia fell to their lowest rate in a decade, plummeting more than nine percent in 2013 compared to the previous year, officials said.

• 23 июля 2014, 10:03

A Spanish couple was arrested trying to leave Colombia with a five-week-old girl they allegedly bought from her parents, Colombian authorities said.

• 19 июля 2014, 11:40

Former world leaders Bill Clinton and Tony Blair attended a special summit in Colombia in support of the country's bid to forge peace with FARC rebels.

• 02 июля 2014, 13:09

The hangover goes around the globe like a Mexican wave -- a trail of destructive and sometimes deadly celebration is left after every win and the World Cup 'sickie' has become an epidemic.

• 24 июня 2014, 12:11

Latin America's Pacific Alliance trade bloc agreed to allow citizens to live and work in any of the four member countries for a year.

• 20 июня 2014, 12:49

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, who was re-elected Sunday, is seen as his country's best hope for a potential peace deal with Marxist rebels.

• 16 июня 2014, 11:11

The death toll from a Colombian bus fire rose to 33 children after a girl hospitalized with severe burns succumbed to her injuries, authorities said.

• 27 мая 2014, 13:24

Thirty-one children were burned to death when a bus they were traveling in caught fire in northern Colombia on Sunday, the Red Cross said.

• 19 мая 2014, 11:00

A video showing Colombia's main opposition presidential candidate receiving apparently confidential information from a hacker jolted the campaign Sunday.

• 19 мая 2014, 10:39

The owner of a Miami restaurant chain has paid nearly $10 million for a luxurious beach-front home in the US city once owned by famous Colombian drug trafficker Pablo Escobar.

• 11 мая 2014, 10:04

Rescue workers recovered more bodies Saturday of people killed in a landslide at an illegal gold mine in western Colombia, raising the death toll to 10, with an additional six feared dead.

• 04 мая 2014, 12:57