Colombia to send confiscated gold to help Gaza

Colombia's President Gustavo Petro has ordered the Special Assets Society to send confiscated gold to help rebuild Gaza after the signing of the Israel-Hamas peace agreement. Petro posted about the decision on the social media platform X. The...

Colombian president allocates seized gold to aid Gaza, calls for international rebuilding force

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has announced an unprecedented initiative to support the reconstruction of Gaza, ordering that gold seized from drug traffickers be used to fund medical care for injured Palestinian children. According to...

Venezuelan Activists Attacked in Bogotá During Targeted Shooting

Two Venezuelan human rights activists living in exile in Colombia were wounded in a targeted shooting on Monday afternoon in northern Bogotá, an attack that has renewed fears over the safety of political dissidents in the country. The assault took...

Increase scope and funding for Australian Centre for Disease Control, Federal Government told

Introduction by Croakey: Wide-ranging amendments to the Federal Government’s draft legislation for establishing the long-awaited Australian Centre for Disease Control are likely to be flagged by a Senate inquiry due to report on 24 October....

Criminal Alien TikTok Influencer Who Posted ICE Raid Alerts Deported to Colombia

An illegal alien social media influencer who filmed and posted information and videos about ICE raids in California was deported to Colombia last week. Tatiana Mafla-Martinez, a Colombian national, was arrested in August over her previous...

Advancing global and environmental health research in Canada

The Global and Environmental Health Lab, situated at York University’s School of Global Health and the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, is a collaborative research centre focused on understanding and mitigating health inequality....

Colombian writers discuss blending earnestness with humor, creative influences at Northwestern symposium

Northwestern’s Department of English hosted three authors for the Colombian Writers Symposium in the Block Museum of Art on Wednesday. Julián Delgado Lopera, Gloria Susana Esquivel and Melissa Lozada-Oliva read excerpts of their work, then...

Pharmexcil to host business delegation to Chile, Peru, Guatemala & Colombia to boost pharma exports

The Pharmaceuticals Export Promotion Council of India (Pharmexcil) with the support of the Union ministry of commerce is organizing business delegation to Chile, Peru, Guatemala and Colombia between December 1, 2025 and December 12, 2025. The...

Carlos Vargas Shares Harrowing Experience of Knife Assault in Bogotá

Bogotá, Colombia — Carlos Vargas, a prominent presenter from Caracol Televisión‘s ‘La Red,’ shared a disturbing experience after he was attacked with a knife in Bogotá. During a recent broadcast, Vargas recounted the incident that left him shaken...

Colombia to Skip Summit of the Americas Over Exclusion of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela

Colombian President Gustavo Petro. X/ @CitizenMediaFR October 15, 2025 Hour: 1:51 pm On Wednesday, Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced that he will not attend the 10th Summit of the Americas, scheduled to take place in Punta Cana,...

FARC dissidents hand over munitions to Colombia in peace gesture

By Luis Jaime Acosta PUERTO ASIS (Reuters) -The National Coordinator of the Bolivarian Army (CNEB), one of five dissident groups of Colombia’s former FARC guerrilla movement, handed over its first batch of armaments as a sign of goodwill in talks...

Colombian Hospitals Highly Rated for Quality in Latest Intellat Study

Colombia has secured a prominent position in the Intellat 2025 Ranking of the Best Hospitals and Clinics in Latin America, with 26 of its healthcare institutions included in the evaluation, the second-highest number in the region after Brazil. The...

Polemic over “invasion” of Bogotá’s National University

Vice-rector condemns unauthorized entry of thousands bussed in for political campaigns The sudden arrival of masses of indigenous and campesino groups now camping or sleeping out on the campus of Bogotá’s Universidad Nacional (National University)...

Alzheimer's hope after Scots researchers develop eye-tracking technology that can diagnose devastating disease

By NEIL POORAN Published: 16:21 EDT, 15 October 2025 | Updated: 16:21 EDT, 15 October 2025 Eye-tracking technology can provide a cheaper alternative to diagnosing a genetic tendency towards Alzheimer’s disease than ‘expensive and invasive’ medical...

Putumayo’s women guardians defend land and culture amid Colombia’s deforestation

In Colombia southwest, Kamëntšá and Inga Indigenous women are at the forefront of the struggle to defend their territory, which provides water to the rest of the Putumayo. Through transmitting their language, cultivating traditional farms, sharing...

Innovations in brain health require attention to data, patient-driven considerations

October 15, 2025 2 min read Add topic to email alerts Subscribe We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Back to Healio Key takeaways:...

UN warns Colombia over mercury contamination in Atrato River, calls crisis a human rights emergency

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The United Nations warned that mercury contamination from illegal gold mining in Colombia’s Atrato River basin has created a “serious and ongoing human rights crisis,” threatening the health and survival of Indigenous and...

The nation’s community health centers face money troubles

NEW YORK — On a busy street in Queens, New York, just around the corner from a halal hot chicken sandwich restaurant and a barber shop, the Long Island City Health Center welcomes its patients into a brightly lit waiting room, painted baby blue...

CCTV footage of a sexual assault and femicide incident from Colombia is shared, linking it to India

A viral video on social media (here, here, here, and here) shows a man violently assaulting a woman on a staircase, lifting and dragging her by the hair while she appears helpless. The post is being shared with claims that the man is Muslim, the...

Eye-tracking offers measure of change in pre-clinical Alzheimer’s Disease

The effectiveness of eye-tracking technology in identifying people who have a genetic tendency to Alzheimer’s Disease, years before their symptoms show, has been highlighted in new research. Tests which used the ViewMind Atlas™ system had high...