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Colombia vs. Mexico, live stream, TV channel, time, how to watch World Baseball Classic

The World Baseball Classic will kick off on Saturday with a matchup between Mexico and Colombia in Pool C.

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Inside the emerald mines that make Colombia a global giant of the green gem

Inside the emerald mines that make Colombia a global giant of the green gem

NPR ventures into a Colombian emerald mine — which used to be more dangerous, with potential explosions inside and gunfights outside. The CEO, a former U.S. diplomat, says he wanted to change that.

Colombia's police lift road blocks set up by protesting miners

Colombia's national police on Friday lifted protests and road blocks that disrupted movement and supplies of food and medicine in a dozen rural municipalities located in the Andean country's Antioquia and Cordoba provinces, the police said in a statement.

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Colombian government, ELN agree to start ceasefire talks

MEXICO CITY - Colombia's government and the country's last recognized guerrilla group, the National Liberation Army (ELN), said Friday they had agreed to begin negotiating a ceasefire, as the two sides wrapped up a second round of peace talks in Mexico.

From Colombia or Haiti, migrants' long road ends in Canada

CHAMPLAIN (UNITED STATES) - For exhausted migrants, a small stretch of snow-covered road is the last step in a long journey to a new life in Canada. Some drag heavy suitcases, others carry all their worldly belongings in small plastic bags.

‘Simple but effective’: Colombia turns to algorithms to bolster mental health services

With resources stretched, a computer questionnaire is helping to screen people at risk from depression and alcohol abuse

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Colombians face food, medicine shortages as protesting miners block roads

Up to 300,000 people in Colombia are suffering shortages of food and medicine after informal and illegal gold miners blocked roads in protest of the destruction of their machinery by authorities, ministers said on Thursday.

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28 Teens Rushed To Hospital After Playing With A Ouija Board What In The Craft Is Going On?

28 Teens Rushed To Hospital After Playing With A Ouija Board What In The Craft Is Going On?

28 schoolgirls have been hospitalised after playing with a Ouija board in Colombia.

Women enlist in Colombia's army for first time in 25 years

Women enlist in Colombia's army for first time in 25 years

For the first time in 25 years, Colombia has opened military service to women

The Independent UK

Two tourists killed and 16 injured after massive wave capsizes boat

Two tourists killed and 16 injured after massive wave capsizes boat

Twenty-two passengers were onboard the tourist boat when it capsized near the coast of Colombia on 5 March

The Independent UK

How Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro outfoxed the west

How Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro outfoxed the west

The repressive leader has weathered an economic crisis, sanctions and an uprising. What should the US do with him now?

Financial Times

Colombian oil field kidnapping ends as dozens of hostages freed

Dozens of police and oil workers taken hostage after protesters stormed a field operated by China’s Sinochem Group have been released, Colombian President Gustavo Petro said.

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Accusations against relatives a blow to Colombian president

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has asked prosecutors to investigate accusations made against his brother and one of his sons that appear to go against his campaign pledges to promote peace and fight corruption

The Independent UK

79 police officers taken hostage and one killed during protest in Colombia

A police officer has been killed and 79 others taken hostage during protests in Colombia.

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Colombia to relocate Pablo Escobar’s ‘cocaine hippos’ because they won’t stop breeding

The hippos are descendants of four imported illegally by Pablo Escobar in the 1980s

Who can house a hippo? Colombia hopes export part of Pablo Escobar's bloat

Dozens of the invasive behemoths, descended from 4 imported by the 1980s drug lord, are thriving in the region around his former ranch. Colombia wants to ship some of them to Mexico and India.

British tourist killed in robbery in Colombia

According to reports in newspapers in Colombia, he went walking on the Cerro de las Tres Cruces

Pablo Escobar's hippos to be removed from Colombia as they go out of control

The hippos, which are territorial and weigh up to three tonnes, have been declared a toxic invasive species because they have no natural predator in Colombia and pose a biodiversity risk because their faeces changes the composition of rivers

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Colombia proposes shipping invasive hippos to India, Mexico

Colombia is proposing transferring at least 70 hippopotamuses that live near Pablo Escobar’s former ranch _ descendants of four imported from Africa illegally by the late drug lord in the 1980s – to India and Mexico as part of a plan to control their population

The Independent UK

Thousands stranded as Colombia's Viva Air grounds flights

Struggling low-cost airline Viva Air has suspended its operations in Colombia and Peru

Colombia's health bill to cost up to $2.64 billion annually for next decade

The Colombian government's health reform plan will cost from $1.86 billion to $2.64 billion each year for the next decade, the Finance Ministry said on Monday.

Colombia court moves to metaverse to host hearing

A Colombian court this month hosted its first legal trial in the metaverse, and now hopes to experiment again with virtual reality, authorities told Reuters.

Colombia must do more to stop child recruitment by armed groups -NGO

Colombia's government must increase efforts to stop armed groups from recruiting children, as it pushes for peace and surrender deals with rebels and crime gangs, think tank International Crisis Group said on Friday, warning recruitment is rising.

Heinz wants to find 'ketchup boat guy' who survived nearly a month at sea on nothing but ketchup and seasoning

Elvis Francois was found around 120 nautical miles northwest of Colombia’s Puerto Bolívar last month when a plane spotted the word “help,” which he had etched into his boat.

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Karol G: Mañana Será Bonito review – evocative melodies that transcend language

Colombia’s best tunesmith mixes reggaeton with pasillo and other beats on a sensual, melancholy album

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