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How Argentines are reacting to Messi’s move to Inter Miami
Buenos Aires, Argentina — Lionel Messi announced his surprising move to Major League Soccer (MLS)’s Inter Miami on Wednesday after many weeks of speculation about the soccer superstar’s next move after leaving Paris Saint-Germain F.C. (PSG). The move has caused mixed emotions in the soccer world, and undoubtedly peeved some in Saudi Arabia, which offered […]
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Read More 9 June 2023 | 4:46 amIndependiente, an Instagram influencer, and the Inspector General: What’s behind the controversial crowdfunding campaign to lift the Argentine soccer club out of debt?
Buenos Aires, Argentina — A popular Argentine social media influencer’s crowdfunding campaign to pay off the debt of Club Atlético Independiente has come under scrutiny from watchdogs who are concerned with irregularities in the campaign to help lift the storied soccer team out of debt. Santiago Maratea, who has 3.7 million followers on Instagram, has […]
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Read More 8 June 2023 | 2:21 amAbout 90% of Brazilians believe in God, tied with South Africa for most believers on planet
São Paulo, Brazil – A study recently released by the French research institute Ipsos revealed that Brazil, South Africa, and Colombia have the highest percentage of people who claim to believe in God in the world. According to the survey, 89% of Brazilians identify as believers in God or a higher power or spirit. Out […]
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Read More 7 June 2023 | 8:30 pmMeet Illariy, the world’s first AI avatar that teaches Quechua on TikTok
Lima, Peru — The Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the National University of San Marcos (UNMSM) developed Illariy, an artificial intelligence (AI) avatar that will teach TikTok micro-classes in Quechua, the native language of the Inca civilization and an official state language in Peru. Google estimates that Quechua is used by around 10 million […]
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Read More 6 June 2023 | 3:34 amAmerican pop star Lana Del Rey returns to Brazil, visits Indigenous community
São Paulo, Brazil – American pop star Lana Del Rey chose Brazil as the location to end her four-year break from the stage. Her long-awaited return happened during the “Music Is The Answer” (MITA) festival, held on May 27 and 28 in Rio de Janeiro and June 3 and 4 in São Paulo. The headliner […]
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Read More 6 June 2023 | 2:41 amRecent incidents of officers killing colleagues raise mental health concerns within Brazil’s police
São Paulo, Brazil – During the early hours of May 14, a civil police investigator entered a police station in the state of Ceará, in the northeast of Brazil, and killed four of his colleagues. The next day, a military policeman in the state of São Paulo stormed into a station there and killed two […]
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Read More 5 June 2023 | 8:16 pm
New suspect arrested in death of Argentine journalist
Buenos Aires, Argentina — Police in Argentina have made a second arrest in the case of murdered journalist Griselda Blanco. Investigators said new evidence which led to the arrest points to a personal dispute between Blanco and a local businessman, and doesn’t involve her reporting, as her family and colleagues had suggested in the days […]
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Read More 5 June 2023 | 8:04 pmSexual abuse of Brazilian children, adolescents rose 68% in first 4 months of 2023
São Paulo, Brazil – Brazil’s Ministry of Human Rights recorded 17,500 cases and more than 69,000 complaints of sexual abuse on children and teenagers from January to April this year, which includes assaults, rape and sexual exploitation. The number is 68% higher than that recorded in the same period of 2022, when there were 10,400 […]
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Read More 5 June 2023 | 6:47 pmFish bought in markets in Brazil’s Amazon highly contaminated with mercury: Study
São Paulo, Brazil — The consumption of fish is endangering the health of people living in six of the seven states in the Northern region of Brazil, according to a study released by Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation), Greenpeace Brazil, the Indigenous Research and Training Institute (Iepé), the Socio-Environmental Institute (ISA), and WWF Brazil. […]
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Read More 3 June 2023 | 3:17 amMexican gubernatorial candidate caught in corruption scandal days before historic elections
Mexico City, Mexico—- Days before elections for the governorship of the State of Mexico, one of the largest and most influential states in the country, a journalistic investigation linked the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) candidate Alejandra del Moral Vela to a corruption network responsible for embezzling USD $300 million. The elections on June 4 are […]
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Read More 2 June 2023 | 6:42 amPuno, in southern Peru, resumes protests against President Dina Boluarte
Lima, Peru — After months of relative calm following mass protests in Peru over the ouster of President Pedro Castillo in December, citizens and social activists in the southern Puno region participated in a 24-hour strike on Tuesday as part of a reinitiation of protests against the administration of Castillo’s successor, Dina Boluarte. On the […]
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Read More 1 June 2023 | 9:53 pmBrazil’s former President Fernando Collor de Mello sentenced to 8 years for corruption
São Paulo, Brazil – Brazil’s Supreme Court sentenced former President Fernando Collor de Mello, who led the country from 1990 to 1992, to eight years and 10 months in prison for corruption and money laundering. The disgraced president was accused of receiving R$ 20 million (USD $4 million) in bribes between 2010 and 2014, while […]
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Read More 1 June 2023 | 8:26 pmFormer Operation Car Wash prosecutor Deltan Dallagnol removed from office in Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies
São Paulo, Brazil – Deltan Dallagnol, a Brazilian lawmaker and the former chief prosecutor in Operation Car Wash, the international corruption case involving Brazil’s business elite and politicians, had his mandate as a federal deputy revoked by Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court. According to the decision, Dallagnol should not have even run for the office because, […]
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Read More 1 June 2023 | 1:50 amAMLO’s mega projects incite clash between Mexican Government, Supreme Court
Mexico City, Mexico — After Mexico’s Supreme Court overruled a 2021 presidential decree which shielded President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s signature development projects as matters of national security, the head of state launched a legal battle to overturn the Court’s decision. On May 18, eight of 11 justices ruled that AMLO’s decree was unconstitutional, citing […]
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