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16 killed in Brazil bus accident
Agence France-Presse . Rio de Janeiro | Updated at 03:49pm on December 05, 2020
A bus in Brazil plunged off a viaduct from a height of 20 meters on Friday after the brakes apparently failed, crashing onto rail tracks...
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Thousands in Argentina march against legalising abortion
Agence France-Presse .Buenos Aires | Updated at 10:06am on November 29, 2020
Thousands of anti-abortion protesters, many of them mobilised by Catholic or evangelical groups, demonstrated on Saturday across Argentina against a government-backed new bill to legalise...
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Brazil president won’t take COVID-19 vaccine
Agence France-Presse . Brasília | Updated at 12:15am on November 28, 2020
Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro has said he will not take a vaccine against the coronavirus even after it receives approval from his own government. ‘I’m...
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At least 41 killed, 10 hurt in Brazil road accident
Agence France-Presse . Sao Paulo | Updated at 11:55am on November 26, 2020
At least 41 people were killed and 10 injured on Wednesday when a bus and a truck crashed in southeastern Brazil, police said...
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UN decries ‘structural racism’ in Brazil
Agence France-Presse . Geneva | Updated at 10:59pm on November 24, 2020
The UN said Tuesday the deadly beating of a black man by white guards in Brazil exemplified ‘structural racism’, and called for an independent investigation...
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Protests sparked after black man killed at Brazil supermarket
Agence France-Presse . Brasília | Updated at 11:11am on November 21, 2020
The death of a black man beaten by white security guards at a supermarket sparked protests across Brazil on Friday as the country celebrated Black...
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UN chief ‘deeply disturbed’ by political unrest in Peru
Agence France-Presse . United Nations | Updated at 09:39pm on November 17, 2020
UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres is ‘deeply disturbed’ by a violent crackdown in Peru against people protesting the impeachment of former president Martin Vizcarra, his spokesman...
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Peru president faces calls to resign after three protesters killed
Agence France-Presse . Lima | Updated at 10:15pm on November 15, 2020
The head of Peru’s Congress has called for the ‘immediate resignation’ of interim president Manuel Merino after a violent crackdown on protests against his new...
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Mayor murdered in violence-plagued eastern Mexico
Agence France-Presse. Coatzacoalcos | Updated at 11:02am on November 12, 2020
A mayor has been murdered in an eastern region of Mexico wracked by cartel-related violence, authorities said Wednesday. Florisel Rios, mayor of Jamapa in Veracruz...
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US women, minorities celebrate vice-president-elect
Agence France-Presse .New York | Updated at 10:24am on November 10, 2020
The first female vice-president, and a symbol of American diversity – Kamala Harris had electrified many women and minority voters on the US left, who...