By Catarina Demony LISBON, April 23 (Reuters) – Government officials from Brazil are using their president’s first visit to Europe since being elected to raise awareness and fight against the racial discrimination faced by the Brazilian community in Portugal and elsewhere. Brazil’s minister of racial equality, Anielle Franco, was one of the officials who travelled […]
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By Iñigo Alexander Paraguachón, Colombia BBC Every morning, 13-year-old Marcelo Jesus Gouriyú and his nine-year-old brother leave their home in the small Venezuelan town of Calié at half past four in the morning to go to school in Colombia. The two children walk unaccompanied through the dark for around two hours to make it in […]
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By Antoinette Radford BBC News Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo has surrendered himself to US authorities, in order to be extradited to Lima. Mr Toledo, 77, is accused of taking $20m (£15m) in bribes from a Brazilian construction company while in office between 2001 and 2006. He fled Peru to live in the US several […]
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Argentina is battling a record outbreak of dengue fever, which has killed more than 40 people and infected more than 60,000, mainly in the north-west. The infection is spread by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, and the last big outbreak to hit Argentina was in 2020. The health ministry says dengue cases are starting to plateau, however. […]
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By Tiffany Wertheimer & Will Grant BBC News, London and New Mexico Thousands of migrants are marching through southern Mexico as part of a mass protest to demand the end of detention centres. Last month, 40 people were killed when fire ripped through a facility in Ciudad Juárez, a city on the US border. “The […]
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By Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News Online Latin America editor A leader from Brazil’s indigenous Munduruku community has been recognised for her successful fight against mining in the Amazon rainforest. Alessandra Korap Munduruku, 39, has been awarded this year’s Goldman Prize, which recognises grassroots activism. Her vocal campaign to protect the Munduruku territory saw her confronting […]
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The fight between the Florida governor and the Magic Kingdom is weird and getting weirder, for a company that was not always a defender of LGBTQ+ rights Edward Helmore THE GUARDIAN In an American political landscape seemingly defined by division and acrimony, one of the bitterest fights is also one of the strangest: the slug […]
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By CNW Contributor PAHO- The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director, Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, calls on countries to urgently step-up routine vaccination programs as the risk of disease outbreaks in the Americas reaches a 30-year high due to a decline in vaccination coverage. While the Americas was the first region in the world to eliminate […]
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More trouble for Britain’s Sunak as his scandal-hit deputy resigns Chile plans to nationalize its vast lithium industry Why the fiery SpaceX rocket disintegration could be a bonus for Musk. Take a look back at the week in pictures. Today’s Top News SpaceX’s next-generation Starship spacecraft explodes after its launch from the company’s Boca Chica […]
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