More than 80 people were killed in the country’s northeast over the weekend following the government’s failed attempts to hold peace talks with the National Liberation Army, a Colombian official said.

At least 80 people were killed in northeast Colombia following failed attempts at peace talks with the National Liberation Army, a Colombian official said.

The unusually deadly violence delivers a devastating blow to the “total peace” program of the country’s first leftist president, Gustavo Petro.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday hailed the opportunity to achieve a just peace in Ukraine, which is battling an almost three-year-old Russian invasion, as he congratulated the U.S. leader Donald Trump on his inauguration.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he is hoping that new US President Donald Trump will help bring about a principled end to Russia's war against his country. "Trump, he told me, and he later publicly stated it,

The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, congratulated Donald Trump on his inauguration as the President of the United States. "This is a day of change and hope for the resolution of many issues,