Colombian Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo told reporters in the capital Bogota that the relisting of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism was a wrong and unfair US decision.

Colombia has suspended peace talks with the National Liberation Army, or ELN, for second time in less than a year after blaming the rebel group for violence that has been affecting a northeastern region of the country in recent days.

A Colombian Air Force plane landed in Bogota with 105 Colombian nationals deported from the United States, marking the third flight of its kind this week, the Colombian Foreign Ministry said.

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s president issued a decree Friday giving him emergency powers to restore order in a coca-growing region bordering Venezuela wracked in recent days by a deadly turf war among dissident rebel groups.