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Topic: Colombia

17 dead, 20 injured in school bus accident in Colombia

In a post on X, the governor of Antioquia said the bus was travelling from the Caribbean town of Tolu to Medellin after a school trip and was carrying students from Antioqueño High School.

Colombia suspends intelligence sharing with US

President Gustavo Petro has ordered Colombian public security forces to stop sharing intelligence until the US stops attacking boats in the Caribbean.

US sanctions Colombian president, accuses him of allowing expansion of drug trade

US military has ratcheted up activity in the southern Caribbean, striking vessels in international waters that it has alleged without evidence are carrying drugs.

‘Wholesale attack on democracy underway in India, corruption rampant,’ Rahul says in Colombia

At a session at a university, part of his South America trip, the LoP underscored need for India to focus on manufacturing, noting that China has used its strength to counter US tariffs.

Colombian presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe dies 2 months after getting shot in head

Colombian senator and presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe, shot in the head at a campaign event 2 months ago, died at 39.

Colombian ex-president Uribe held guilty of abuse of process, bribery of public official

A Colombian judge on Monday convicted Alvaro Uribe in a long-running witness tampering case, making him the country’s first ex-president to ever be found guilty at trial.

Colombia presidential candidate Miguel Uribe shot, suspect arrested

The 39-year-old senator, now fighting for his life, was shot during a campaign event for the 2026 elections in Bogota.

Bogota relents on deportation after President Petro’s tirade against Trump. A look at US-Colombia ties

US President Donald Trump had threatened South American country with sanctions and tariffs amid standoff over repatriation of Colombian nationals living illegally in US.

Who is Simon Bolivar, ‘liberator’ invoked by Colombian president amid diplomatic standoff with Trump

Petro took Bolivar’s name in a scathing response to Trump’s threat of tariffs & sanctions in case Colombia did not accept deportees. Columbia later agreed.

On Camera

Indian bureaucracy should be given incentives and rewards: MH Mody

Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.