Rescue teams worked non-stop for more than 30 hours to find survivors and retrieve bodies from collapsed Sutatausa town mine hit by methane gas explosion, officials say.
Explosion caused by accumulated gas in six adjoining coal mines in central Cundinamarca department causes casualties and traps 10 workers below ground, authorities say.
Gustavo Petro says negotiations have begun after the suspension of arrest warrants against 19 rebels.
Delegates from both sides meet in Mexico City and agree on a temporary ceasefire to create peaceful conditions ahead of the next round of talks in Cuba.
New law passed by leftist President Gustavo Petro would see impoverished or heads of single parent households doing public service instead of spending time in prison.
Dialogue aimed at ending decades of armed conflict in the South American country has made "substantial progress" since two rounds of talks in Venezuela and Mexico, both sides say.
"It gives one chills," says Colombian President Gustavo Petro of new high-security prison built by his El Salvador counterpart Nayib Bukele in "war against gangs."
Ivan Francisco Escobar from the nonprofit World Central Kitchen is preparing 25,000 meals daily in Antakya along with a team of six Turkish volunteers.
If sentenced, Dairo Antonio Usuga David will face mandatory minimum term of 20 years and up to life in prison.
"This horror has gone unpunished for years," says President Petro Gustavo as he orders probe into reports of sexual abuse of Nukak tribe girls in Amazonia "including mostly by white men, someone of whom are soldiers."
Colombian government is holding peace talks with the ELN and has declared a bilateral ceasefire with dissidents who reject a 2016 peace deal signed by the FARC.
"We had a comprehensive and very fruitful meeting," says Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro after talks with Colombia's Gustavo Petro in Caracas.
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