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People stand where their homes once stood after a deadly landslide was triggered by heavy rain in Bello, Antioquia state, Colombia, Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Fredy Amariles)

The death toll in a landslide in Colombia rises to 22 with 8 missing

The death toll in a landslide in northwest Colombia has risen to 22 with eight still missing. Crews on Saturday were still searching for victims in Medellín, Colombia’s second-largest city, and the nearby city of Bello, following the landslide early Tuesday.
 
Residents search for missing people after a deadly landslide was triggered by heavy rain in Bello, Antioquia state, Colombia, Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Fredy Amariles)

At least 11 dead after landslide buries homes in northwest Colombia

 
Colombian singer Karol G performs during the Rock in Rio music festival in Rio de Janeiro, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado, File)

Colombian court says song recorded by Karol G and J Balvin violated the rights of children

 
This undated photo shows Carlos Lehder in Colombia. Lehder was one of the leaders of the Medellin cartel that dominated the global cocaine trade in the 1980s. (AP Photo/File)

Former Medellin Cartel boss released in Colombia after a judge rules his sentence expired

 
Media swarm Fabio Ochoa, center, a former member of Cartel of Medellin, upon his arrival at El Dorado airport, after being deported from the United States, in Bogota, Colombia, Monday, Dec. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Medellin Cartel victims demand truth and justice as cartel boss Fabio Ochoa walks free in Colombia

 

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Fabio Ochoa, center, a former member of Cartel of Medellin, kisses a relative's hand upon his arrival at El Dorado airport, after being deported from the United States, in Bogota, Colombia, Monday, Dec. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Legendary drug lord Fabio Ochoa is deported to Colombia and walks free after 20 years in US prisons

 
FILE- This undated file photo shows Fabio Ochoa Vasquez. (AP Photo/File)

Legendary Medellin cartel drug lord released from US prison after serving 25 years

 
A cable car lays on the ground after it fell in Medellin, Colombia, Wednesday, June 26, 2024. At least one person was killed and 12 others were injured when the cable car collapsed while approaching a station, local authorities said. (AP Photo/Fredy Amariles)

The collapse of a cable car in Colombia kills 1 person and injures 20

 
FILE - Federico Gutierrez, presidential candidate representing the Team for Colombia coalition, talks during a presidential debate at the El Tiempo newspaper building in Bogota, Colombia, May 23, 2022. On Monday, April 1, 2024, Gutierrez, the mayor of Colombia’s second largest city Medellín, issued a six-month ban on prostitution in some of the city’s most famous neighborhoods, arguing that it is a necessary step to prevent the sexual exploitation of children. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Mayor of Medellín, Colombia, bans prostitution in neighborhoods that are popular with tourists

 
Tourists take photos in the Comuna 13 neighborhood of Medellin, Colombia, Friday, Feb. 2, 2024. Once a battleground for fighting among drug cartels, leftist guerrillas, military forces and government-linked paramilitary groups, the area is now a tourist attraction. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Slayings of tourists and Colombian women expose the dark side of Medellin’s tourism boom

 

Tourist slayings reveal dark side of tourism in Medellín

 
FILE - Former Sen. Piedad Cordoba shares a laugh with guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in San Isidro in southern Colombia, May 30, 2012. The left-wing Colombian congresswoman died on Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024. She was 68. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Piedad Cordoba, an outspoken leftist who straddled Colombia’s ideological divide, dies at age 68

 
FILE - Founder and organizer Tou Ger Xiong, front, poses with a group of Hmong dancers during Hmong Minnesota Day at the Minnesota State Fair, in Falcon Heights, Minn., Sept. 6, 2021. Colombian prosecutors said on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024, three people have been jailed in the kidnapping and killing of a Xiong who was found dead on Dec. 11, 2023, near Medellín after going out to meet a woman he reportedly met on social media. (Scott Takushi/Pioneer Press via AP File)

3 people charged with murdering a Hmong American comedian last month in Colombia

 
Alexis Llanos, left, his partner Diomaris Barboza, and their children Alexa, 7, and Alexis, 3, pose for a picture outside the home they moved into in October 2023, five years after fleeing Venezuela to Colombia to escape death threats and political persecution, in Lehigh Acres, Fla., Dec. 27, 2023. The family is among the first migrants allowed into the U.S. under the Biden administration's new "safe mobility offices," intended to streamline the U.S. refugee process so migrants don't give up and pay smugglers to make the journey north. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

A new immigration policy that avoids a dangerous journey is working. But border crossings continue

 
Founder and organizer Tou Ger Xiong, front, poses with a group of Hmong dancers during Hmong Minnesota Day at the Minnesota State Fair, Sept. 6, 2021, in Falcon Heights, Minn. On Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023, Colombian authorities were investigating the alleged kidnapping and murder of the Hmong American comedian and activist Xiong, who was found dead Monday, Dec. 11, in a wooded area of the northern city Medellín. (Scott Takushi/Pioneer Press via AP)

Colombia investigates the killing of a Hmong American comedian and activist in Medellin

 
FILE - Colombian artist Fernando Botero gives an interview in New York, Oct. 30, 2013. Botero died on Sept. 15, 2023 in Monaco, according to his daughter Lina Botero who confirmed his passing to Colombian radio station Caracol. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero, known for his inflated forms, has died at age 91

 

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