By Marcelo Rochabrun   LIMA, April 27 (Reuters) – Peruvian police said on Wednesday they had evicted an indigenous community that set up a camp inside a huge open pit owned by MMG’s Las Bambas copper mine, that had forced the Chinese-owned company to halt operations. Las Bambas, owned by China’s MMG Ltd (1208.HK), supplies […]

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BBC- Eleven Colombian ex-soldiers are giving details about extrajudicial killings carried out by the army during Colombia’s armed conflict. They are taking part in a public hearing of the special court examining crimes committed during the conflict. More than 6,400 civilians were killed by the military and falsely passed off as enemy combatants between 2002 […]

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WHO CHIEF: WORLD ‘BLIND’ TO COVID TRANSMISSION, EVOLUTION  The World Health Organization’s (WHO) director-general is pressing countries to maintain COVID-19 surveillance and share information on its transmission and sequencing, saying reduced testing abroad “makes us increasingly blind to patterns of transmission and evolution.” Speaking on Tuesday during a press conference, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus noted that […]

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Trending | View in Browser April 27, 2022 Here is today’s selection of top stories from The Associated Press at this hour to begin your day.  Today’s Headlines Russia says it’s cutting gas to two EU nations in escalation POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — Russia opened a new front in its war over Ukraine on Wednesday, […]

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By Santana Salmon CNW- The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) on Monday urged countries to step up efforts to tackle malaria in the region, calling for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment interventions that are data-led and tailored to local contexts. In a message marking World Malaria Day, PAHO said in 2020, the 18 endemic countries of […]

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Skip to content   Police of the Ortega regime during the raid on the facilities of ’La Prensa’, in August of last year. (Twitter) EFE (via 14ymedio), Miami, 21 April 2022 — The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) concluded its biannual meeting with a pessimistic document in which it maintains that “the increasing violence against journalists […]

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Story by Nell Lewis CNN Jaguar spots are etched in black ink on Reynold Cal’s lower arms. Tattooed on the left is the rose-shaped pattern found on Romeo, and on the right is that of Superman, names Cal gave to two of the big cats after watching them over the years on camera trap footage. […]

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By Ismael Lopez   MANAGUA, April 26 (Reuters) – Nicaragua said on Tuesday the state would take possession of the headquarters of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Managua, two days after the Central American country exited the group and expelled some of its members. “The attorney general’s office reports that the real estate […]

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LAS BAMBAS, Peru, April 26 (Reuters) – Chinese-owned MMG Ltd’s (1208.HK) huge Las Bambas copper mine in Peru is considering a plan to evict indigenous communities that have camped on the property and forced a production halt, according to an executive and a document seen by Reuters. Under Peruvian civil law, property owners can attempt […]

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BBC- A total of 52 Colombian human rights activists and community leaders have been killed in the first three months of this year, authorities say. It is a significant increase from 2021, which saw 145 murders all year. Most of the victims are targeted because they clash with the interests of illegal armed groups, including […]

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