Searches continue for survivors of Colombia's landslide - Radio New Zealand
Hundreds are confirmed dead and the toll is expected to rise after mudslides in Colombia.
Colombia mudslide, flooding kill 254 in midnight deluge - Reuters
Flooding and mudslides in the Colombian city of Mocoa sent torrents of water and debris crashing onto houses in the early hours of Saturday morning, killing 254 people, injuring hundreds and sending terrified residents, some in their pajamas, scrambling to evacuate.
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Heavy rains caused several rivers to overflow, pushing sediment and rocks onto buildings and roads in the capital of southwestern Putumayo province and immobilizing cars in several feet of mud.
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He hopes to build a Trump tower in Colombia. But he still lives with his parents - Washington Post
TUNJA, COLOMBIA - Of all the would-be business partners of President Trump who have been hoping to capitalize on his win, there is surely no one who stands to gain quite as much — relatively speaking — as young Colombian builder Nicolás Jiménez.
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Jiménez, you see, doesn’t have much to begin with.
His company, Fortún, is the local partner of U.S. investors who have drawn up a $350 million plan to build the Trump International Hotel and Tower Bogota, featuring a pair of 72-story skyscrapers that would be among the tallest in Latin America. New York-based Yun Capital, a longtime Trump backer, is putting up the money; Jiménez has been looking for a site and said he hopes to finalize a deal this month.
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Colombia and Brazil soccer teams join in tribute after plane crash - Reuters
At the moment when they were set to take the field as foes, two soccer teams a continent apart raised their voices in unison on Wednesday, paying tribute to the 71 lives lost in a plane crash that cancelled the final of the Copa Sudamericana.
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Colombia's Atletico Nacional, which was ready to host the first leg of the final on Wednesday night, instead held a ceremony in honour of their fallen rivals Chapecoense, whose planed crashed into a hillside outside of Medellin.
Rowdy fans scaled walls into the stadium after the 46,000-person arena filled up an hour before the ceremony began. Others brought flowers and teared up during a minute of silence at the scheduled kickoff time.
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Crash probe into Brazilian soccer team tragedy focuses on fuel, electrical systems - Washington Post
Air crash investigators in Colombia sought Wednesday to piece together the terrifying final moments aboard a charter jet that crashed while carrying a Brazilian soccer team to the biggest match in its history.
The probe into Monday’s crash pressed ahead on multiple fronts — with accounts provided by some of the six survivors — even as soccer clubs and leaders around the world joined Brazil to mourn a tragedy that claimed the lives of scores of people, including players, coaches and journalists.
Fans of Medellin’s Atlético Nacional gathered on Wednesday evening at Atanasio Girardot stadium, where the team had been set to face off against Brazil’s Chapecoense squad in the South American Cup, to pay homage to their lost rivals.
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