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A quarter of Rio de Janeiro’s population lives in slums, or favelas, yet too often those very people are left feeling marginalized. Wracked by...
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Amnesty International hit out on Thursday at the repression by Nicolas Maduro’s government in Venezuela, saying that more people were murdered in the South...
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An incoming member of Mexico’s Congress was kidnapped at gunpoint Tuesday, an official said, the latest violent episode surrounding the July 1 elections, the...
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Malians vote on Sunday in a presidential runoff expected to return Ibrahim Boubacar Keita to the helm of a country battling jihadist violence and...
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From a ruling party rally in the east, to opposition door-to-door canvassing in the northwest, Zimbabweans have been experiencing the novelty of a relatively...
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Seven people, including a boy of 14, have been killed in continuing violence between army-backed police units and Rio de Janeiro’s criminal gangs, reports...
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Internal conflicts, violence, and persecution globally have driven the displacement of populations to a record high in 2017, the fifth year in a row,...
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Running for office in Mexico is “practically a death sentence,” says mayoral candidate Mario Alberto Chavez, who was eating dinner at a restaurant when...
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A baby was wounded by a stray bullet in Rio de Janeiro while in his mother’s arms, becoming the 15th child shot here this...
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In the rugged mountains of Guerrero, the most violent state in a Mexico awash in blood, the civilians who have taken up arms to...