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‘A mystical experience’: millions watch total solar eclipse sweep across North America
Almost 32 million people in the path of totality as moon’s shadow crossed the Mexico-Texas border...
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Father of killed World Central Kitchen worker tells Blinken US should suspend aid to Israel
‘If the United States threatened to suspend aid, maybe my son would be alive today,’ John...
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Excitement builds ahead of total solar eclipse in US, Mexico and Canada
Rare celestial event on Monday will see the moon block out the sun for a few...
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UN chief joins condemnation of Ecuadorian raid on Mexican embassy
António Guterres voices ‘alarm’ as Latin American governments sharply criticise Quito’s move to arrest former vice-presidentThe...
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Mexico suspends diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police raid embassy
Ecuadorian police forcibly enter the embassy in Quito to detain former vice-president Jorge GlasMexico has suspended...
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Peru’s embattled president dismisses ‘Rolexgate’ investigation as a ‘smoke-screen’
Dina Boluarte has denied wrongdoing after being accused of illicit enrichment in relation to her use...
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India and Pakistan tried to meddle in Canada elections, spy agency says
CSIS intelligence report suggests growing number of countries targeting country’s large diaspora populationsCanada’s spy agency has...
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Top UN expert warns of deteriorating situation in Haiti: ‘It’s apocalyptic’
Human rights expert voices alarm, saying country is fast moving towards becoming ‘like Somalia in the...
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Canada: Indigenous fishermen left to walk shoeless after officers seized boots
Justin Trudeau says allegations ‘extremely troubling’ after officers arrested First Nations men and confiscated their boots...
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Two local staff at Hungary embassy fired after Bolsonaro video leak – report
Footage showing former president spent two nights apparently hiding from potential arrest at mission was leaked...
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Brazil apologizes to Indigenous people for persecution during dictatorship
President of amnesty commission investigating crimes of 1964-85 regime makes first-ever apology to Indigenous leaderBrazil has...
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Candidate for mayor of Mexican city of Celaya killed on first day of campaign
Bertha Gisela Gaytán is one of at least 22 mayoral candidates murdered in Mexico since September...
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Peru president Dina Boluarte under pressure amid ‘Rolexgate’ scandal
President under investigation over allegedly owning jewellery worth $500,000 despite earning a monthly salary of $3,320Peru’s...
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Let the music play: Mexico beach bands victorious after noise complaints
Hotel owner in Mazatlán had suggested limiting the time or places where the bands could play...
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Venezuela arrests YouTuber for ‘terrorism’ amid pre-election crackdown
Detention of influencer Oscar Alejandro Pérez at Caracas airport en route to southern national park raises...
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Two men in Haiti suspected of buying weapons for gangs lynched by mob
Killings underscore how outnumbered police are in Haiti after months of attacks and kidnappings by gangsTwo...
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Home of Peru’s president raided in search of luxury watches
The government criticised the move, with the country’s prime minister calling it ‘disproportionate and unconstitutional’Peru’s government...
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Niagara region declares emergency to prepare for eclipse viewers
Total solar eclipse on 8 April will be first to touch province since 1979, and Niagara...
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Lula dismays relatives of dictatorship’s victims by ignoring coup anniversary
Brazil’s president has nixed commemorations of the 1964 coup, possibly to avoid irking the military as...
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Bolivian Indigenous groups assert claim to treasure of ‘holy grail of shipwrecks’
Descendants of enslaved miners who dug up gold, silver and emeralds worth billions call on Colombia...
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Macron rekindles France-Brazil relationship in widely memed Lula visit
Photos of French president’s three-day trip to Brazil to reaffirm countries’ partnership delight internet observersIf the...
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‘Potentially serious impropriety’: Labour questions Johnson’s Venezuela meeting
Former PM’s meeting with President Maduro, in capacity as hedge fund consultant, is under further scrutinyLabour...
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Ontario moves to allow use of Indigenous languages in legislature
‘Momentous change’ will permit lawmakers in Canadian province to address chamber in ‘first languages’Lawmakers in Ontario...
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Canada school boards accuse social media firms of ‘rewiring’ how kids think
District education authorities launch multibillion-dollar lawsuit against Meta, Snap Inc and ByteDanceFour of Canada’s largest school...