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The bridge, connecting Brazil's northeast states of Maranhao and Tocantins, collapsed on Sunday

World

Acid complicates search after deadly Brazil bridge collapse

A search operation for a dozen people missing after a deadly bridge collapse in Brazil was being complicated by the possible presence of acid...

AFPDecember 23, 2024

A vehicle was set on fire in Chilpancingo in southern Mexico as tensions flared between police and students

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Police kill student in southern Mexico, fanning tensions

A student was killed in a confrontation with police in southern Mexico, authorities said Friday, as tensions flared over the case of 43 students...

AFPMarch 8, 2024

Soledad Ruiz wipes tears away as she clutches a composite sketch of her son, Apolinar, who was 25 when he left for work on a farm in San Onofre in northern Colombia in 1999, never to be seen again

World

Buried clothes, bones and DNA help identify Colombia’s missing

Two decades after her son went missing, Soledad Ruiz was handed a small coffin containing his remains, identified using DNA and the sweater he was...

AFPMarch 5, 2024

A member of Civil Protection, part of a group of rescuers, prepares a drone that will be used in a search and rescue operation for members of a religious group who remain missing in San Cristobal, Tachira state, Venezuela, on September 6, 2022

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Search on for people missing from Venezuelan religious retreat

Family members have joined the search for nearly two dozen people reported missing after going on a religious retreat in Venezuela two weeks ago,...

AFPSeptember 6, 2022

Eduardo Alexandre Fontes, chief of Brazil's Federal Police in Amazonas state, speaks during a news conference on July 8, 2022

World

Fourth arrest in Amazon murders of journalist, guide: police

A fourth person has been arrested as part of the investigation into the killings of British journalist and Brazilian Indigenous expert.

AFPJuly 8, 2022

Dom Phillips, a longtime contributor to The Guardian and other leading international newspapers, was working on a book on sustainable development in the Amazon with Bruno Pereira as his guide when they went missing -- their boat has now been found

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Brazilian police find boat of murdered British journalist, guide

Brazilian police said Monday they had found the boat in which British journalist Dom Phillips and his Brazilian expert guide Bruno Pereira were travelling...

AFPJune 20, 2022

Remains found buried in the Amazon were brought to Brasilia for official identification

World

Amazon killers acted alone: Brazil police

Brazilian police said Friday the killers of British journalist Dom Phillips and his expert guide Bruno Pereira had acted on their own initiative and...

AFPJune 17, 2022