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• Colombia lifts ban on deportation flights after Trump tariff threat

  27-01-2025 06:27
  
  US president had called for ‘retaliatory measures’ after Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, blocked two military aircraft carrying deporteesThe US and Colombia pulled back from the brink of a trade war on Sunday after the White House said the Colombians had agreed to accept military aircraft carrying deported migrants.Donald Trump, the US president, had threatened tariffs and sanctions on Colombia to punish it for earlier refusing to accept military flights carrying deportees
  
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• Colombia rejects US military flights with deportees and sets off feud with Trump

  27-01-2025 01:11
  Trump had called for ‘retaliatory measures’ including 50% tariffs on Colombia after Gustavo Petro blocked two aircraftColombian president Gustavo Petro blocked two US military aircraft carrying deported Colombians from landing in his country, prompting a feud with Donald Trump who enacted emergency tariffs and other retaliatory measures.The US president responded fiercely in a post on his Truth Social network when he was informed that two repatriation flights from the US to Colombia
  
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