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The death toll from the flooding in Beijing, China, which is the city's worst flooding in more than 140 years, increases to 21.
2023-08-2

Colombian Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo permits a U.S. Army unit to resume its advisory mission in the country after the Colombian Senate found that it did not constitute a deployment of foreign troops. A court had suspended the mission in early July after the opposition argued it did count as foreign troop movement, and thus needed Senate authorization.
2020-08-27

A DC-3 operated by Laser Aereo crashes in Colombia en route from San José del Guaviare, killing all 14 aboard.
2019-03-9

Voters in Colombia go to the polls for a presidential election, pitting incumbent Juan Manuel Santos against Óscar Iván Zuluaga. Santos is reelected with 51% of the vote.
2014-06-15

Former Typhoon Bopha is again forecast to make landfall in the Philippines this time on the northern island of Luzon as a tropical storm bringing the possibility of more floods and landslides.
2012-12-9

Heavy rains and flooding in Colombia cause up to $5.2 billion in damages. [http:--www.trust.org-alertnet-news-update-1-colombia-estimates-52-bln-in-rain-flood-damages (Reuters Alertnet)]date=August 2019
2010-12-13

Panama grants asylum to María del Pilar Hurtado, the former head of Colombia's Administrative Department of Security wanted for allegedly illegal wiretapping.
2010-11-19

President Rafael Correa is injured and Peru and Colombia close their border with the country.
2010-09-30

A court in Colombia declares as unconstitutional a controversial deal allowing the United States to freely use its military bases and says it will have to be redrafted; other Latin American countries have expressed concern that the United States is exerting excessive influence on the region.
2010-08-18

Colombian journalist, radio reporter and "El Pulso" magazine editor Clodomiro Castilla is shot to death while reading a book at his Montería home.
2010-03-19