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  Guaido calls for a great mobilisation

  Agence-France-Presse . Miami | Updated at 12:27am on February 03, 2020

  Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido promised ‘a great mobilisation in Caracas’ when he returns to the country after a two-week international tour, drumming up support...

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  Fourth death as protests grow in Chile

  Agence France-Presse . Santiago | Updated at 11:04pm on February 01, 2020

  A man died of carbon monoxide poisoning after a supermarket was torched in Chile’s capital Friday, and another succumbed to injuries sustained in clashes with...

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  52 killed in Brazil flood

  Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha/ Xinhua. Rio de Janeiro | Updated at 11:39am on January 29, 2020

  Severe flood has left a total of 52 people dead in southeast Brazil’s Minas Gerais state, the state civil defence agency said on Tuesday. One...

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  Bolivia president asks all ministers to resign

  Agence-France-Presse . Bolivia | Updated at 04:37pm on January 27, 2020

  Bolivia’s interim president Jeanine Anez has asked all her ministers to resign a little more than three months before a general election. The news Sunday...

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  Women grab limelight at India’s Republic Day pageantry

  Agence France-Presse . New Delhi | Updated at 11:43pm on January 26, 2020

  Huge crowds gathered for India’s Republic Day parade Sunday, with women taking centre-stage at the annual pomp-filled spectacle of military might featuring army tanks, horses...

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  Peru president eyes blow to opposition in congressional polls

  Agence France-Presse . Lima | Updated at 11:39pm on January 26, 2020

  President Martin Vizcarra looks set to break the opposition stranglehold on Peru’s Congress as legislative elections get underway on Sunday, the first time they have...

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  First Chilean police officer in court as protest flare anew

  Agence France-Presse . Santiago | Updated at 12:20am on January 26, 2020

  A Chilean police officer appeared in court Friday in the first instance of prosecutors bringing charges over eye injuries blamed on security forces during Chile’s...

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  Maduro celebrates Guaido failure

  Agence France-Presse . Caracas | Updated at 10:22pm on January 24, 2020

  Venezuela president Nicolas Maduro goaded opposition leader Juan Guaido during a rally in Caracas on Thursday, taunting his rival for failing to unseat him.A year...

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  76 ‘highly dangerous’ criminals escape Paraguay jail

  Agence France-Presse . Asuncion | Updated at 02:43pm on January 20, 2020

  Nearly 80 prisoners, many of them members of a big Brazilian drug and arms-trafficking gang and described as ‘highly dangerous,’ escaped Sunday from a Paraguayan...

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  Mexico ramps up border security to block migrant caravan

  Agence France-Presse . Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico | Updated at 10:24pm on January 18, 2020

  Mexico deployed around 200 National Guard officers to the Guatemalan border on Friday in an effort to block a huge migrant caravan traversing Central America...