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Final teams arrive in Russia ahead of World Cup kickoff

England, Colombia and Senegal complete the lineup after flying in.

Europe News

Colombia: irreversible peace?

Euronews speaks to Colombia's incumbent president -Juan Manuel Santos- about how the crucial upcoming elections will impact the country's delicate peace process.

World News

Chile to host Colombia peace talks

Chile has said it will host the next meeting between the Colombian government and the country's last major rebel army, the ELN.

World

Venezuela exodus: thousands flock to Colombia for food and water

In this Aid Zone Euronews' Monica Pinna travels to the Colombia city of Cúcuta to see the humanitarian crisis unfolding on the country's border with Venezuela.

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Venezuela

Venezuelans flee to Colombia to escape economic meltdown

In a special report Euronews' Monica Pinna travels to the Colombia border to witness the mass exodus of Venezuelan migrants.

World News

Euroviews. OECD: Probe Colombia's inaction on indigenous hunger crisis | View

Colombia must tackle dire malnutrition among its largest indigenous group, the Wayuu, if it wants to join the OECD, writes a researcher for Human Rights Watch.

Venezuela

Euroviews. The bridge of last hope is a window on modern Venezuela | View

All kinds of people turn up at the border with one thing in common - desperation.

Colombia

Colombia's conservatives leave Farc behind in elections

Colombia’s conservatives storm ahead in the elections, leaving the Farc lagging behind, but no party wins an overall majority.

Colombia

Colombia seizes 5 tonnes of cocaine in banana shipment

It's Colombia's country's biggest drugs bust so far this year, worth around 350 million euros.

Colombia

Colombia blames ELN militants for bridge bomb attack

Crossing over River Simana destroyed, cutting off access to vehicles, in one of two bombings on Saturday

World News

Venezuelans rush to borders as Colombia and Brazil tighten controls

Colombia and Brazil are tightening border controls after hundreds of thousands of desperate people flee hunger and a spiralling political crisis in Venezuela.

Colombia

Ten workers killed as bridge in Colombia collapses

Workers had been fixing drainage on the partially-built bridge near Colombia's capital city, Bogota, before it fell apart into the canyon below.

World

Despite FARC disarmament last year, violence continues in Colombia

New and established guerrilla groups, criminal gangs and paramilitary organisations have all sought to fill the void left by FARC since it laid down its arms.

World

Colombia's ELN stand their ground while talking peace

The last major armed rebel group in Colombia, the ELN, is struggling to finalise peace terms with the government ahead of a January ceasefire deadline.

Colombia

Colombia honours decimated football team a year after plane crash

Panama

Panama on track for record illegal drug haul

Panama is on track to hit a record level of illegal drug seizures after authorities confiscated some 2 tonnes of cocaine near the country's border with Colombia.

Colombia

Colombia seizes $360 million-worth of cocaine in largest ever drugs haul

Police discovered 12 tonnes of the drug buried under banana plantations near to known smuggling routes.

Colombia

Juan Pablo Escobar opens up about the "ugly truth" about his father in exclusive interview

TV series like Narcos "glorify" the figure of Pablo Escobar says the drug lord's son

World

'The worst violence imaginable': 'Cocaine king' Pablo Escobar's son opens up about his father

Thousands lost their lives on Escobar's route to the top of the Colombian criminal underworld. Euronews asks the infamous narcoterrorist's son what it was like to grow up with the world's richest drug lord

Colombia

Colombian officials double estimate of FARC holdouts resisting disarmament

Some 800 FARC fighters remain fully-armed and with illegal mining and cocaine production to support them, pose a threat to the peace deal, while criminals occupy areas vacated by former rebels.