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The national weather agency IDEAM recorded the highest temperature ever for Bogotá on Wednesday. The current heat spell will continue for the next several days.

The Odebrecht corruption scandal allegedly implicates President Juan Manuel Santos and his 2014 re-election campaign. Santos denies these allegations and asks for probe.

Recent scandals involving bribes for government contracts have forced President Santos to make the fight against corruption his number-one priority.

As thousands of FARC combatants demobilize across Colombia, The City Paper's director Richard Emblin recalls time among the guerrilla in the DMZ of the Cagúan.

After weeks of mass mobilization, the government confirms that ninety-four percent of FARC combatants have reached their Transitional Zones.

The New Code of Police and Coexistence replaces a 1970 version and grants special powers to law enforcement to promote "peaceful co-existence."

FARC's chief negotiator joined the Colombian peace negotiators and Nobel Laureates in a forum that focused on the lessons learned of the historic peace process.

On the second day of the Nobel Peace Summit in Bogotá, the Laureates addressed the important relationship between peace and sustainable tourism.

During an historic Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates and the first ever to be held in a South American nation, Bogotá was declared the 'City…

The ELN released its last high-profile hostage, the ex-congressman from the Chocó, Odín Sánchez to meet the conditions for peace talks with the Colombian government.

The Ministry of Culture will take 20 mobile libraries to remote regions of Colombia where FARC rebels are concentrating for the handover of weapons.

The state visit by France's François Hollande reaffirms the peace accord reached in Colombia with FARC ahead of visit Tuesday to a guerrilla demobilization zone.

After 28 years, a French head of state arrives in the Colombian capital to strengthen bilateral ties and mark the beginning of Colombia-France Year.

President Juan Manuel Santos announces that formal peace negotiations with the National Liberation Army (ELN) will begin February 8 in Quito.

A spate of targeted killings, the logistics of demobilization, and guerrillas deserting the FARC all continue to threaten peace.

President Juan Manuel Santos accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, saying it gave a boost to an "impossible dream" of ending more than a half-century of…