WikiLeaks’ Assange’s Ecuadorian citizenship revoked
Ecuador has revoked the citizenship of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who remains in a British prison. Mr. Assange received Ecuadorian citizenship in January 2018 as part...
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Ex-official fingered in assassination of Haitian President
Police officers after the assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise Former Haitian justice ministry official Joseph Felix Badio may have ordered the assassination of Haiti’s...
El Salvador first in the world to make bitcoin legal tender
El Salvador has become the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender after Congress approved President Nayib Bukele’s proposal to embrace...
Latin America hits 1 million COVID-19 deaths
Graves of people who died of COVID-19 at Parque Taruma cemetery in Manaus, Brazil. Photo: Reuters The death toll from COVID-19 in Latin America and...
Remains of 24 persons uncovered in ex-police home
Authorities allege that Mr. Osorio Chavez might have been killing people for a decade. Photo: BBC The remains of at least 24 persons have been...
25 Killed in drug clash – Brazil police
At least twenty-five people have been killed in a shootout between suspected drug traffickers and police in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. Rio...
Metro train accident: Mexico promises to ‘punish’ those responsible
Mexico says it will severely ‘punish’ whoever was responsible for an overpass collapse that killed at least twenty-four people and injured seventy-nine others in the...
Train accident leaves 23 dead, 65 hospitalised in Mexico
Rescuers at the accident site at Olivos station in Mexico City, Mexico. Photo: REUTERS At least 23 people were killed and 65 hospitalised when a...
Brazil crosses 400,000 coronavirus deaths
Brazil has officially surpassed 400,000 COVID-19 fatalities, coming a close second behind the US. The latest death tally, which was reached on Thursday, indicates that...
Argentina: Minister resigns over VIP vaccine access
Argentina’s health minister has resigned following reports that people have by-passed procedures and rules and used their connections with officials to get access to COVID-19...