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Brazil, Bolivia get AstraZeneca COVID jabs from India
Agence France-Presse . Brasília | Updated at 10:48am on January 14, 2021
Amid the global scramble for coronavirus vaccines, Brazil said on Wednesday it would import two million doses of AstraZeneca’s Covishield jab from India. The inventory...
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Neymar hat-trick fires Brazil past Peru as Argentina toil
Agence France-Presse. Montevideo | Updated at 10:34am on October 14, 2020
Neymar scored a hat-trick to become the second highest scorer in Brazil's history as the Copa America champions won 4-2 away to 10-man Peru in...
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Hundreds of bodies recovered from Bolivian streets, homes
Agence France-Presse . La Paz, Bolivia | Updated at 12:55am on July 23, 2020
Bolivian police said on Tuesday they recovered more than 400 bodies from streets and homes over a five-day period, with 85 per cent of the...
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US coronavirus cases soar
Agence France-Presse . La Paz, Bolivia | Updated at 12:14am on July 11, 2020
Bolivia’s interim president became the latest world leader to test positive for the coronavirus Thursday, as the United States notched yet another record-breaking surge of...
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Bolivia announces total quarantine to combat virus
Agence-France-Presse . Bolivia | Updated at 09:39pm on March 22, 2020
Bolivia’s government on Saturday announced a complete quarantine to come into effect from Sunday in a bid to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus....
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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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Bolivia slams Spain for allegedly ‘trampling’ its sovereignty
Agence France-Presse . La Paz | Updated at 03:38pm on December 28, 2019
Bolivia on Friday slammed its former colonial ruler Spain for allegedly ‘trampling’ its sovereignty in a deepening diplomatic row...
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Morales claims United States orchestrated ‘coup’ to tap Bolivia’s lithium
Agence-France-Presse . Buenos Aires | Updated at 10:50pm on December 25, 2019
Former Bolivia president Evo Morales said on Tuesday that he was forced from office by a United States-backed coup d’etat aimed at gaining access to...
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Bolivia’s 500-year rebellion
Peter Lackowski | Updated at 12:00am on December 22, 2019
IN 1781, the Bolivian indigenous leader Tupac Katari led a rebellion in which La Paz, the Spanish colonial capital of ‘Upper Peru’, was besieged for...
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US again complicit in illegal coup, now in Bolivia
Marjorie Cohn | Updated at 12:00am on December 06, 2019
ONCE again, the United States is complicit in an illegal coup d’état in Latin America, this time in Bolivia. On November 10, a right-wing, anti-indigenous...