At least 18 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake struck western Colombia, sending residents fleeing buildings and triggering emergency rescue operations across the region. The early-morning earthquake, measured at magnitude 7.4, was recorded about 100 kilometres (60 miles) below the surface, with its epicentre in western Colombia. According to AFP, emergency responders were deployed to affected areas…

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The death toll in a Colombian highway bombing blamed on cocaine-trafficking rebels has risen to 21, the government said Monday, in the country’s worst attack on civilians in decades and just ahead of elections. Saturday’s bombing in the southwestern Cauca department which the government blamed on guerrillas opposed to a decade-old peace process, comes one month before Colombia holds…

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