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A court in Prague, Czech Republic, sentences a Colombian national to eight years in prison over a 2024 arson attack on public buses and for planning another similar attack. Czech prime minister Petr Fiala says the arson attack is part of Russia's hybrid war against his country.
2025-06-9

Colombian President Gustavo Petro blocks two U.S. military aircraft carrying deported Colombians as part of U.S. President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown from landing in his country.
2025-01-26

Colombians go to the polls to vote in the presidential election.
2022-05-29

A Colombian citizen is arrested in Russia on charges of "spreading false information" about the Russian Armed Forces on social media. This is the first known case of a foreign national facing possible prosecution under Russia's new "fake news" law.
2022-04-12

A Colombian Roman Catholic nun who had been kidnapped in Mali near the border with Burkina Faso in 2017 by the Macina Liberation Front is freed. The nun is photographed with Malian President Assimi Goïta as the government refuses to state if any ransom was paid for her release.
2021-10-9

Suspects in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse say that their intent was to arrest, not kill, Moïse. The two Haitian-American suspects say that they were working as translators for the Colombian suspects and that they had an arrest warrant against Moïse, but found him dead when they arrived.
2021-07-11

Colombian businessman Alex Saab is arrested in Cape Verde a week after Colombian authorities froze his assets following the opening an investigation against him for alleged money laundering. The Nicolás Maduro-led Government of Venezuela denounces the arrest as an arbitrary detention and violation of international law.
2020-06-13

Colombian, Spanish and French journalists are arrested and detained by SEBIN agents in Caracas. All four work for Spanish news agency EFE. The arrests follow the deportation of two Chilean journalists yesterday.
2019-01-31

With the previous Colombia census thirteen years ago, the National Administrative Department of Statistics registered 45.5 million Colombians and legal foreign residents living in the country. This latest census reveals that there are five million fewer people in Colombia than previously estimated.
2018-11-6

Colombian legislative election, 2010: Over 2500 candidates can be chosen for 102 Senate seats and 166 Chamber of Representatives seats, as well as 5 Colombian representatives to the Andean Parliament (organ of the Andean Community of Nations) and a people's initiative in the Caribbean Region.
2010-03-14