Colombia

The Festival of Spanish Language Films returns to Athens on June 8-16 this year, bringing 15 first releases to the Greek Film Archive's open-air Lais cinema.

BOGOTÁ, Colombia - Germán Vargas Lleras, the former Vice-President of Colombia who stepped down two months ago as the second-in-command to President Juan Manuel Santos to focus on the 2018 election, is the frontrunner in the early presidential poll.

The Geneva-based human rights group UN Watch condemned the U.N.’s election of Saudi Arabia, “the world’s most misogynistic regime,” to a 2018-2022 term on its Commission on the Status of Women, the U.N. agency “exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women.”

Does anyone remember the "zero problems with neighbors" slogan of the Ahmet Davutoğlu prime ministry in Turkey? Well, it appears as if several centuries have passed since Davutoğlu vanished from the front pages of the Turkish media, even though he was ousted by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in May 2016 - less than a year ago.

As the death toll from a devastating flood and mudslide in southern Colombia rises to 314, the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) sent aid packages to the affected region on April 8, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

A serious progress is noted by the Bulgarian national football team in the FIFA monthly rankings, according to BGNES.

The selection of Peter Hubchev moves with 16 places and now occupies 55th place in the ranking for April with a total of 614 points. The reason for this progress is the Lions' victory over the Netherlands in the World Cup qualifying standings for World Cup 2018.

Colombia created a "truth commission" to help it heal after decades of war under a recent peace deal with the leftist FARC rebels.

President Juan Manuel Santos also signed into law a decree establishing a special unit to search for people still missing in the country's 53-year conflict.

Lines of people quietly walked the streets of Mocoa, followed by hearses carrying coffins to a cemetery where open graves waited.

The survivors of the deadly flood that washed through this city in southern Colombia were burying their loved ones on April 3 after authorities began to release the remains recovered from a disaster that has shaken the country.

Mudslides killed more than 200 people after heavy rains caused rivers to overflow late Friday in Colombia’s Putumayo province, authorities said Saturday.

Gabriel Umaña, a spokesman for the Colombian Red Cross, told CNN 234 people had died and 220 are missing.

A mudslide in Mocoa, near Colombia's southern border, has killed 154 people, injured at least 190 with 210 feared missing after intense flooding caused three rivers to burst their banks in the middle of the night.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has confirmed that the current death toll has risen to 154 in an interview with local media.