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Colombian football 'Colossus' Freddy Rincon dies aged 55

Bogota (AFP) - Colombian former international midfield star Freddy Rincon died on Wednesday aged 55 of injuries he sustained in a traffic accident, doctors said.

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Colombian football 'Colossus' Freddy Rincon dead at 55: doctors

Bogota (AFP) - Colombian former international midfield star Freddy Rincon died on Wednesday aged 55 of injuries he sustained in a traffic accident, doctors said.

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Colombian 'Colossus' Rincon critical after bus crash

Bogota (AFP) - Former Colombian star midfielder Freddy Rincon is in critical condition following a collision between the vehicle he was traveling in and a bus, authorities said on Monday.

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Taylor Hawkins, Stephen Sondheim honored at 2022 Grammy Awards

As most Grammy Awards viewers were sadly aware, Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins was supposed to be pounding his kit with the band at this year's ceremony. Tragically, though, less than two weeks ago, Hawkins, 50, was found dead in a Bogota, Colombia, hotel room.

Los Angeles Times

Bernal to skip Grands Tours on return from horrific accident

Bogota (AFP) - Colombia's 2019 Tour de France champion Egan Bernal confirmed Saturday he would not participate in any of the three Grands Tours in Europe as he recuperates fully from an accident.

AFP

FARC dissidents responsible for bombing that killed two children, says Colombia's Duque

Colombian President Ivan Duque on Monday accused former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) who reject a peace deal of setting off explosives at a police station which killed two children and injured 39 others in Bogota.

Reuters

Investigators pave way for repatriation of Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins’ body

Forensic investigators have paved the way for the repatriation of Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins’ body following his shock death on Friday.

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Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins had 10 different substances in body, early report finds

Colombia’s Attorney General’s Office said it would “continue to investigate and will duly inform the findings of forensic examinations in due time.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Taylor Hawkins' heart was twice as heavy as it should have been when he died

Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, 50, is believed to have suffered a suspected heart attack, according to health chiefs in Bogota, which may have been due to an overdose

Daily Mirror

Taylor Hawkins had 10 different substances in his system, officials say

The 50-year-old was playing on the South American leg of the band’s world tour when his sudden death was announced on Saturday.

The Independent UK

Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins used marijuana, opioids before death: investigators

Bogota (AFP) - Preliminary toxicology tests found that Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins had marijuana, opioids and other drugs in his system before he died, Colombian investigators said Saturday.

AFP

Foo Fighter Taylor Hawkins had cocktail of drugs in his system at time of his death, say officials

Ten 10 different substances identified during initial forensic medical examination

Wales Online

Taylor Hawkins 'had cocktail of 10 different drugs in his body' when he tragically died

Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, 50, is believed to have suffered a suspected heart attack, according to health chiefs in Bogota, which may have been due to an overdose

Daily Mirror

Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins ‘one of last true rock star drummers of our time’

Paramedics attempted to revive Hawkins in his hotel room in Bogota, Colombia, but there was no response, authorities have said.

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Taylor Hawkins cause of death: Police issue update

Police in Colombia said those close to the Foo Fighters' drummer had suggested his death could be linked to drugs

The Independent UK

‘Huge loss for music’ as Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins dies at 50

The drummer played in the band for more than two decades.

Daily Record

Taylor Hawkins dead: Foo Fighters drummer dies aged 50

Taylor Hawkins' devastated Foo Fighters bandmates made the announcement on social media and local news reports suggest the drummer was found dead in his hotel room in Bogota, Colombia.

Reuters

Colombian centrist must push social policies to win over polarized nation in vote -analysts

Mathematician Sergio Fajardo, chosen to represent Colombia's center-left coalition at presidential elections in May, will need to present concrete policies against poverty and graft to defeat foes in a bitterly polarized nation, analysts said.

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Ex-guerrilla Petro front runner in Colombia presidential primaries

Bogota (AFP) - Colombians voted for senator and former guerrilla Gustavo Petro as the left's presidential nominee by a wide margin on Sunday, making him the front runner in an election that could yield the country's first-ever leftist leader in May.

Tribune News Service

Colombia selects candidates who’ll battle Petro for presidency

For months, Gustavo Petro, the former guerrilla and Bogota mayor, has been all the talk ahead of Colombia’s presidential elections. The rich fear him, while many of the poor love his promises to redistribute land and wealth.

Reuters

Colombia presidential hopeful Fajardo proposes tax reform to fund more social spending

Colombian presidential hopeful Sergio Fajardo told Reuters on Tuesday that if elected his government would seek to raise income taxes on the country's highest earners to expand social spending.

AFP

Scrounging for food in 'hunger hotspot' Colombia

Bogota (AFP) - While the Colombian government fumes over being listed as a "hunger hotspot" by UN agencies, Heidy Garzon -- a single mother of nine -- worries where her family's next meal will come from.

AFP

Colombia's Duque blasts 'heinous' pro-abortion ruling

Bogota (AFP) - Colombia's president on Tuesday described as "heinous" a Constitutional Court ruling decriminalizing abortion up to 24 weeks of pregnancy, a move he said bypassed Congress and a deeply Catholic population.

AFP

Colombia decriminalizes abortion up to 24 weeks of pregnancy: court

Bogota (AFP) - Colombia's high court decriminalized abortion up to 24 weeks of pregnancy on Monday in a landmark ruling for the majority-Catholic country, one of only a few in Latin America that currently allows the procedure.

Reuters

Top Colombia court decriminalizes abortion until 24 weeks of gestation

Judges on Colombia's constitutional court voted on Monday to decriminalize abortion until 24 weeks of gestation, the court said in a statement, in a victory for abortion rights groups which sued to have the procedure removed from the penal code.

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