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  Brazil presidential frontrunner injured in knife attack

  Agence France-Presse . Rio de Janeiro | Updated at 12:10am on September 08, 2018

  Brazil’s right-wing presidential frontrunner Jair Bolsonaro was stabbed and seriously injured while campaigning Thursday, with police saying the suspect claimed to be acting on orders...

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  Massive fire tears through Rio's 200-year old National Museum

  Reuters . Rio De Janeiro | Updated at 10:59am on September 03, 2018

  A massive fire raced through Brazil's 200-year-old National Museum in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, probably destroying its collection of more than 20 million items,...

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  Panic but no injuries as Venezuela hit by 7.3 magnitude earthquake

  Agence France-Presse | Updated at 11:19am on August 22, 2018

  Venezuela was rocked by a 7.3-magnitude earthquake near its northeastern coast Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, causing buildings to sway and people to run...

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  Venezuelan migrants' dreams of new life dashed by Ecuador passport rule

  Reuters | Updated at 10:43am on August 19, 2018

  Tears welled up in Gabriel Malavolta's eyes on Saturday as he realized his dream of a new life in Peru was over, at least for...

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  Nine planes grounded by bomb threats in South America

  Reuters | Updated at 10:39am on August 17, 2018

  Nine planes were forced to make emergency changes to their routes within Chilean, Argentine and Peruvian airspace on Thursday because of bomb threats issued to...

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  Nobel-winning writer VS Naipaul dies

  Agence France-Presse . London | Updated at 01:20am on August 13, 2018

  British author VS Naipaul, a famously outspoken Nobel laureate who wrote on the traumas of post-colonial change, has died at the age of 85. Naipaul,...

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  Venezuela to try lawmakers for failed Maduro drone attack

  Agence France-Presse | Updated at 10:58am on August 08, 2018

  Venezuela's all-powerful constituent assembly said it would try opposition lawmakers Wednesday over a failed attack on president Nicolas Maduro, who also accused exiled opposition leader...

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  Venezuela’s Maduro says drone blast was bid to kill him, blames Colombia

  Reuters | Updated at 10:29am on August 05, 2018

  At least one explosion rocked a military event where Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro was giving a speech on Saturday and the government said it was...

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  Violence against women ‘normal’ to young Latin Americans

  Reuters | Updated at 07:38pm on July 25, 2018

    Two in every five teenage boys in eight countries in Latin America and the Caribbean believe a drunk woman is to be blamed for...

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  Haiti prime minister resigns after deadly unrest

  Agence France-Presse | Updated at 11:47am on July 15, 2018

  Embattled Haiti prime minister Jack Guy Lafontant resigned on Saturday following deadly violence and looting sparked by a now-abandoned plan to...