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Brazil's Senate Removes President Dilma Rousseff from Office
Brazil's Senate removed leftist President Dilma Rousseff from office on Wednesday for breaking budgetary laws, in an impeachment process that has polarized the Latin American country and paralyzed its politics for nine months.
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2016 South America Spring Forecast
Rain will alleviate drought across southern and central Brazil this spring but will largely miss northern parts of the country in the grips of severe drought.
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Colombia peace deal: Historic agreement is signed - BBC News
Colombia's government and left-wing Farc rebels sign an agreement that formally brings an end to 52 years of civil war.
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Venezuela congress presses for Maduro trial in rowdy session
Venezuela's opposition-led National Assembly in a rowdy session on Sunday vowed to put Nicolas Maduro on trial for violating democracy, days after authorities nixed a recall referendum against the unpopular leftist president. By Alexandra Ulmer and Deisy Buitrago.
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Southern Hemisphere recovered faster from dino strike - BBC News
Life in the southern hemisphere appears to have recovered more quickly than expected from the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs.
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Chile Earthquake Triggers Tsunami Warning
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.7 off southern Chile prompts a tsunami warning.
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Analysis | 8 important keys to understanding Venezuela’s controversial election
I like how they speak about the risk of destroying the Venezuelan democracy, as if there were one left to destroy.
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Venezuelan officials killed as voting starts
A candidate in Sunday's assembly elections and an opposition activist have been killed in Venezuela. The killings took place before voting started to elect a new assembly with powers to rewrite the constitution. The opposition says it is a power grab by President Nicolás Maduro and is boycotting the vote.
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Venezuela key opposition leaders seized after poll
Two Venezuelan opposition leaders, Leopoldo López and Antonio Ledezma, have been re-arrested in a move condemned internationally. They were under house arrest after accusations of inciting violence during anti-government protests in 2014. The two have been taken to Ramo Verde military jail, family members say.
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Nobody is going to bail out Venezuela
China, Russia and the International Monetary Fund are among those contemplating a Venezuela bailout. But help for this debt-stricken nation seems far from assured.
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Argentine judge issues arrest warrant for Cristina Kirchner over terror attack cover-up
A crusading Argentine judge has ordered the arrest of the country’s former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner on charges of “treason against the fatherland,” accusing her of covering up Iranian involvement in the country’s worst-ever terrorist attack. The 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish cultural centre, AMIA, killed 85 people. No one has ever been successfully prosecuted for the crime.
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As Venezuela Collapses, Children Are Dying of Hunger
For five months, The New York Times tracked 21 public hospitals in Venezuela. Doctors are seeing record numbers of children with severe malnutrition. Hundreds have died.
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Thousands Once Spoke His Language in the Amazon. Now, He’s the Only One.
The Taushiro tribe vanished into the jungles of the Amazon basin in Peru generations ago. Amadeo García García is now the last native speaker of their language.
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In Venezuela a tin of tuna can be more valuable than cash
To survive hyperinflation it is better to hold almost any asset than money because assets hold their value and money doesn't.
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In Venezuela, money has stopped working
How can Venezuelans possibly go on?
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Chile's Tiny Til Til Faces Big Trash Problem
The trains seem to never stop.
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Where Is The Border Between North and South America?
The Panamanian border with Colombia is the demarcation between North and South America. The boundaries between the continents of Earth are generally a matter of geographical convention. Several sli…
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Blazing Building Collapses in Sao Paulo | Pictures
Firefighters try to extinguish a fire at a building in downtown Sao Paulo, Brazil May 1, 2018. A 22-story abandoned office building occupied by hundreds of squatters was engulfed in flames and collapses.
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Brazil backs 'Guardians of the Amazon' in their war on loggers
Rio de Janeiro: In a rare move, Brazil is providing armed back-up to indigenous people protecting the world's most threatened tribe from illegal loggers, a decision that campaigners lauded as a "landmark" in efforts to halt deforestation in the Amazon.
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Chile is the first country in the Americas to ban plastic bags
The country's senate has pased a bill to ban the use of plastic bags in stores.
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