(Reuters) -Swedish defense firm Saab said on Friday it has signed a contract worth 3.1 billion euros ($3.62 billion) with the Colombian government to deliver 17 Gripen fighter jets in the next five years.

BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombia's state-run energy company Ecopetrol ECO.CN expects to execute about $6.3 billion in investments in 2025, equivalent to 90% of its target, executives from the company told Reuters in an interview on Thursday, adding it could close the year with five additional exploratory wells drilled.

Sergio Melendro was among hundreds of children missing after a volcanic eruption devastated Armero, Colombia, in 1985 and his mother Martha Lucía López still searches for him.

Work continues on Chile's Guillermo Gaviria Echeverri Toyo Tunnel that, once completed, will become the longest vehicular tunnel in Latin America.

Forty years after the Nevado del Ruiz volcano wiped out the town of Armero, the ghosts of Colombia's deadliest tragedy still haunt its slopes, and families are still searching for lost children.

El presidente colombiano Gustavo Petro designó el jueves como nuevo ministro de Justicia a un reconocido jurista que fue presidente de la Corte Suprema de Justicia, máxima instancia de la justicia ordinaria.

The massive landslide wiped out the town of Armero, killing about 25,000 people – nearly 70% of its population – in what is considered Latin America’s deadliest twentieth-century natural disaster.

(Reuters) -Swedish defense firm Saab said on Friday it has signed a contract worth 3.1 billion euros ($3.62 billion) with the Colombian government to deliver 17 Gripen fighter jets between 2026 and 2032.

Two British men wanted by police over drug and gun trafficking allegations have been arrested in Colombia. Liam O'Brien, from Liverpool, and Robert Taylor, from Newcastle upon Tyne, were found by officers from the Policia Nacional De Colombia at a property in the South American country's second city Medellin on Wednesday.