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  Argentine port blast kills one, injures others

  Reuters | Updated at 11:37am on December 28, 2017

  An explosion at a grains terminal in Argentina owned by China's COFCO International on Wednesday killed one employee, injured others and affected shipping activities from...

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  Clashes in Lima as thousands protest former president Fujimori pardon

  Agence France-Presse | Updated at 12:50pm on December 26, 2017

  Peruvian police on Monday fired teargas and clashed with protesters marching against the pardon of ailing former president Alberto Fujimori, who...

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  Argentina navy chief sacked over submarine tragedy

  Agence France-Presse | Updated at 10:15am on December 17, 2017

  Argentina dismissed its naval chief on Saturday, the most high-profile officer to be fired a month after a submarine went missing with 44 crew members...

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  Venezuela opposition banned from running in 2018 election

  BBC | Updated at 09:25am on December 11, 2017

  Venezuela's president, Nicolas Maduro, says the country's main opposition parties are banned from taking part in next year's presidential election...

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  Argentina abandons rescue mission for crew of missing submarine

  Reuters | Updated at 09:10am on December 01, 2017

  Argentina has given up on rescuing 44 crew members on a submarine that disappeared 15 days ago, though it will continue the search for the...

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  Argentina faces ‘hope and hopelessness’ in submarine search

  Reuters | Updated at 09:25am on November 26, 2017

  No sign of the Argentine submarine lost in the South Atlantic since November 15 has been found despite a massive international search effort, while families...

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  'Explosion’ raises fears for Argentine sub

  Associated Press | Updated at 09:10am on November 23, 2017

  Experts say the apparent explosion detected in the search for a missing Argentine sub could be especially ominous for hopes to rescue the 44 people...

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  Ousted Caracas mayor flees house arrest, heads to Madrid

  Agence France-Presse | Updated at 10:20am on November 18, 2017

  Fugitive Caracas mayor Antonio Ledezma, a key opponent of president Nicolas Maduro, travelled to Madrid on Friday after escaping house arrest in the Venezuelan capital...

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  Colombia signs $300m UN deal to fight cocaine production

  BBC | Updated at 10:45am on November 04, 2017

  Colombia has signed a $300m (£230m) agreement with the United Nations aimed at reducing the production of cocaine...

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  Scrappy Venezuela newspaper drops print edition 

  United News of Bangladesh | Updated at 07:13pm on November 03, 2017

  A scrappy, independent newspaper in Venezuela that never shied from fights with the country's powerful socialist leaders circulated its last print edition Thursday, but its...