Colombia nabs Italian mob ties suspect
Colombian authorities have nabbed Tommaso Iacomino, reputedly a fugitive Camorra clan leader wanted for extradition to Italy, police said Saturday.
Colombian authorities have nabbed Tommaso Iacomino, reputedly a fugitive Camorra clan leader wanted for extradition to Italy, police said Saturday.
Deep magnitude-7.0 earthquake registered in Colombia; no immediate reports of damage.
The Honduran ambassador to Colombia was forced to resign Saturday after his bodyguard reportedly held a Christmas party with prostitutes at the mission, the foreign ministry in Tegucigalpa said.
A Colombian firm that makes bulletproof vests is now creating armored clothing for children.
A Colombian cargo ship sank off the country’s Pacific coast, leaving eight people dead, the navy said Saturday. Another 14 people were plucked out of the water.
Firecrackers exploded on a bus in Colombia, injuring at least ten people, including three children, authorities said Saturday.
A senior military official says the U.S. expects to charge two Navy sailors in connection with the prostitution scandal that engulfed U.S. Secret Service and military members preparing for a presidential visit to Colombia earlier this year.
The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council warned early Monday all local offices for possible tsunami occurrences after a 7.1-magnitute shook southwestern Colombia Sunday, a report from Radyo Inquirer 990 AM said.
Nearly 1.5 million children aged between five and 17 were working in Colombia during the third quarter of 2011, driving the child labor rate up to 13 percent, an official report said Thursday.
Hundreds of protesters poured Sunday into the streets of the Colombian capital to protest the brutal rape and assassination of a 35-year-old woman in one of the city parks.
Even Colombians accustomed to treachery and deceit after more than a half-century of civil conflict and drug-related violence were stunned by the arrest of a one-time provincial lawmaker for allegedly helping plan the mass kidnapping of 11 colleagues later slain by leftist rebels.
One of the Colombian prostitutes involved in a sex scandal with US Secret Service agents broke her silence Friday to tell how she had begged for hours to be paid $800 for her services.
A French journalist went missing in Colombia Saturday following a leftist rebel attack on an army column in the south of the country, a French embassy official told AFP.
