Search For "colombia"
Colombian President receives first dose of COVID-19 vaccine
Updated : 3 hours, 12 min ago IST
Bogota [Colombia], June 14 (ANI/Xinhua): Colombian President Ivan Duque confirmed on Sunday that he had received his first dose of the vaccine against COVID-19 and said that the National Vaccination Plan is continuing its fight to immunize 35 million people in the country.
Read More
Colombian strike committee suspends talks with government
Updated : 6 days, 18 hours ago IST
Bogota [Colombia], June 7 (ANI): Colombia's strike committee has unilaterally suspended talks with the government aimed at ending demonstrations in the country, the Colombian president's adviser on stabilisation and consolidation said.
Read More
9 killed on southern Colombia farm
Updated : 1 week, 6 days ago IST
Bogota [Colombia], June 1 (ANI/Xinhua): Eight men and one woman were killed on a farm located in the rural area of Algeciras in the southern Colombian department of Huila, Mayor of Algeciras Libardo Pinto said Monday.
Read More
Five Colombian policemen killed in helicopter crash
Updated : 2 weeks ago IST
Bogota [Colombia], May 31 (ANI/Xinhua): Five policemen died after the helicopter in which they were traveling crashed in a rural area of the Colombian department of Bolivar on Sunday, Colombian President Ivan Duque said.
Read More
Colombia reports 513 more COVID-19 deaths
Updated : 2 weeks, 3 days ago IST
Bogota [Colombia], May 28 (ANI/Xinhua): Colombia reported 513 more deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, raising the nationwide death toll to 86,693, the health ministry said Thursday.
Read More
Colombia dropped as Copa America co-host
Updated : 3 weeks, 2 days ago IST
Asuncion [Paraguay], May 21 (ANI/Xinhua): The South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) said that Colombia will no longer co-host this year's Copa America amid civil unrest and surging coronavirus cases.
Read More
2 dead, over 10 injured amid clashes between demonstrators, police
Updated : 3 weeks, 5 days ago IST
Bogota [Colombia], May 18 (ANI/Sputnik): At least two people died and more than 10 were injured in the latest clashes with law enforcement in Colombia's western municipality of Yumbo, where strikes and demonstrations have been ongoing since last month, a local journalist told Sputnik.
Read More
COVID-19 almost killed me, says J Balvin
Updated : 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], May 9 (ANI): Colombian singer J Balvin recently revealed that he took part in 'Global Citizen's Vax Live: The Concert to Reunite the World' as he doesn't want to see others suffer from COVID-19 like he did.
Read More
Over 370 people go missing during 9 days of tax-reform protests in
Updated : 1 month, 1 week ago IST
Mexico City [Mexico], May 7 (ANI/Sputnik): A total of 379 people went missing in Colombia over nine days of protests triggered by the now-shelved tax reform, the Movice National Movement of Victims of State Crime has announced.
Read More
Over 30 people killed within week of Colombian protests
Updated : 1 month, 1 week ago IST
Bogota [Colombia] May 6 (ANI/Sputnik): At least 31 people have died, 1,220 more have been injured and 87 have gone missing within a week of protests in Colombia, the Institute for Development and Peace Studies said.
Read More
Death toll from COVID-19 in Colombia surpasses 70,000
Updated : 1 month, 3 weeks ago IST
Bogota [Colombia], April 23 (ANI/Sputnik): The number of people who have died due to COVID-19 in Colombia has risen by 430 and has surpassed the 70,000 mark, the national Ministry of Health said.
Read More
Colombia reports 16,654 new COVID-19 cases
Updated : 1 month, 3 weeks ago IST
Bogota [Colombia], April 18 (ANI/Xinhua): Colombia has registered 16,654 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, taking its nationwide tally to 2,636,076, the ministry of health and social protection said Saturday.
Read More