The World Health Organization has urged China to share data on the origins of the Covid pandemic, five years on from its start in the city of Wuhan. “This is a moral and scientific imperative,” the WHO said in a […]
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Trinidad and Tobago has declared a state of emergency as gang violence in the Caribbean nation continues to escalate. President Christine Carla Kangaloo issued the declaration on the advice of Prime Minister Keith Rowley, who had been under growing pressure
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Authorities in Guatemala have resisted efforts by members of a Jewish sect to recapture 160 children rescued from its premises. The children were taken into care on Friday when police raided a farm used by the Lev Tahor movement, which
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Getty Images Javier Milei has won support from Elon Musk As Argentina’s maverick libertarian President Javier Milei marks one year in office, his efforts to revive the economy are still a work in progress – but his policies are proving
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Reuters Peru’s new megaport is Chinese-built As the world waits to see how the return of Donald Trump will reshape relations between Washington and Beijing, China has just taken decisive action to entrench its position in Latin America. Trump won
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The leader of a notorious gang of football hooligans in Argentina has been shot dead near his club’s stadium in Rosario. Andrés Bracamonte, known as Pillín, had spent more than 20 years as head of the Rosario Central supporters’ gang
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Reuters Diana Mondino has had to bid farewell to the foreign ministry Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, has sacked his foreign minister, Diana Mondino, after the country voted in favour of lifting the US economic embargo on Cuba at the United
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EPA Bolivia’s government has rejected claims by the former president, Evo Morales, that it ordered a targeted attack on him. Morales says his car came under sustained gunfire on Sunday night in the Cochabamba region, in what he condemned as
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Getty Images Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro was welcomed as a guest by Vladimir Putin – but he left empty-handed Venezuela has criticised Brazil’s decision to veto its admission to the Brics group of emerging economies. Venezuela’s foreign ministry described the move,
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Getty Images A minister in the government of Argentina’s Buenos Aires province, the country’s largest, has sparked controversy by suggesting that it could seek to become independent. Jorge D’Onofrio, who is transport minister in the province’s left-wing Peronist administration, said
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