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Ms Márquez, 42, is the country's first black vice-president and its first minister for equality, who took office in August 2022 more than 160 years after its first black president, Juan José Nieto Gil. She has said she is among those descended from the legions of Africans who were brought to Colombia as slaves in the 17th Century to work the country's gold mines and sugarcane fields, many of whom still face racist abuse. And as she invites the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to Colombia in what some have seen as a diversion from her government's domestic problems, she has called for Meghan's home country of the US to lead on forgiving its billions in foreign debt.

The 'holy grail' of shipwrecks remains at the bottom of the ocean stocked with billions of gold and jewels - and now Colombia's government plans to claim its artifacts. The legendary San Jose galleon sank off its Caribbean coast over three centuries ago - taking down with it gold, silver and emeralds believed to be worth $20 billion in today's money. On Wednesday, Colombia declared a 'protected archeological area' around the spot where the vessel sank off the Colombian port of Cartagena after its powder magazines detonated during a skirmish with the British in 1708. The culture ministry said the designation 'guarantees the protection of heritage' through the ships' 'long-term preservation and the development of research, conservation and valuation activities'

The 'holy grail' of shipwrecks remains at the bottom of the ocean stocked with billions of gold and jewels - but the Colombian government just made it impossible for the treasure to be claimed. The legendary San Jose galleon sank off its Caribbean coast over three centuries ago - taking down with it gold, silver and emeralds believed to be worth $20 billion in today's money. On Wednesday, Colombia declared a 'protected archeological area' around the spot where the vessel sank off the Colombian port of Cartagena after its powder magazines detonated during a skirmish with the British in 1708. The culture ministry said the designation 'guarantees the protection of heritage' through the ships' 'long-term preservation and the development of research, conservation and valuation activities.'

When a British warship took the San Jose to the bottom of the Caribbean in 1708, it was loaded with gold, silver, and emeralds valued today at $17 billion. Scientists in Colombia are just days away from restoring the first artefacts recovered after the wreck was first discovered under 2,000 feet of water in 2015. Spain, Colombia, Bolivia, and a US search firm are among those claiming the cargo, but lhena Caicedo of the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History said the wrangling is on hold as the mission continues. We aren't worried about the treasure,' he said, 'We're thinking about how to find the site's historical and archeological information.'

In 1708, the Spanish galleon of San Jose sank off the coast of Cartagena (bottom right), as its powder magazines detonated during a skirmish with the British Navy. Since its 600-strong crew was carrying up to 200 tons of gold (main), silver, and emeralds valued at around $20 billion (£15 billion), it has been described as the 'Holy Grail of shipwrecks.' Last month, Colombian authorities announced that an expedition would be launched in a matter of weeks to retrieve these buried treasures from the deep sea with the assistance of an underwater robot (research vessel top right). Alhena Caicedo, the head of the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History, said that a project of this magnitude has never been attempted, not loot discovery.

During a brawl with the British, the Spanish galleon San Jose sank off the coast of Cartagena in 1708 as its powder magazines detonated. Treasures weighing billions of dollars were aboard, as well as 600 sailors. Authorities announced on Friday that an expedition would set off in April, nearly a decade after the Colombian government announced the discovery of the legendary shipwreck. Juan David Correa, the Colombian culture minister, told AFP that an underwater robot that will operate between April and May will extract items from the galleon's exterior. Correa said that the first step is to see 'how they appear when they land (out of the water) and what we can do' to carry on the mission.

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On Wednesday, harrowing pictures of one such service, in which a solemn Orthodox priest (main) presided over a sea of new graves at a major cemetery in the town, which is just 15 miles north of Kyiv's capital. Hundreds of thousands of vibrantly colored coffins were pulled out of a loading van and painstakingly lowered one by one into the ground (top right) before large wooden crosses were forced into the ground to adorn the victims' final resting places (inset). 458 bodies have been discovered in the Bucha area after the town's 33-day Russian occupation ended in early April, with more corpses still to be found. Ban-ki Moon (bottom right), the United Nations secretary general who visited the site on Tuesday, has asked the world to honor the victims. The civilian killings at Bucha have risen to a point of brutality in Russia's Ukraine's conflict.