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First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Settles Into $63K-$64K Range 2024-05-07
CoinDesk

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Brazil floods: Lula seeks state of emergency after 85 dead in rain-ravaged south 2024-05-07
Bahrain News Agency

Canoas, May 7 (BNA): Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva asked Congress on Monday to recognize a state of public calamity for the heavy rains that have killed at least 85 people in the country's southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul. More than 130 people are still missing after flooding...

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First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Nears $65,000 Amid Strong Crypto Rebound 2024-05-06
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Brazil mounts frantic rescue effort as flooding kills at least 78 2024-05-06
Phys Dot Org

Authorities in southern Brazil scrambled Sunday to rescue people from raging floods and mudslides in what has become the region's largest ever climate catastrophe, with at least 78 dead and 115,000 forced from their homes. Entire cities were underwater, with thousands of people cut off from the...

photo: AP / Carlos Macedo

Active Clubs: A new far-right threat to democratic elections 2024-05-02
Al Jazeera

Across North America and Europe, the far-right Active Clubs movement is expanding at an unprecedented pace, presenting new threats to democratic elections and minorities. With a network of decentralised cells in most states in the United States and European Union member countries, the Active Clubs...

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New Haiti PM tasked with stabilising violence-racked country 2024-05-01
Al Jazeera

Haiti’s transitional council has nominated Fritz Belizaire as the new prime minister of the crisis-ridden Caribbean country. The council on Tuesday tapped the former sports minister to take over from interim prime minister Michel Patrick Boisvert. The previously low-profile new premier faces a...

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Mexico is taking Ecuador to the top UN court over the storming of the Mexican Embassy 2024-04-30
Newsday

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Mexico is taking Ecuador to the top U.N. court Tuesday, accusing the nation of violating international law by storming the Mexican Embassy in Quito to arrest a former vice president who had just been granted asylum by Mexico. The April 5 raid, hours after Mexico granted...

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Russia vetoes US-drafted UN Security Council vote on stopping space arms race 2024-04-25
Gulf News

UNITED NATIONS: Russia on Wednesday vetoed a US-drafted United Nations Security Council resolution that called on countries to prevent an arms race in outer space, a move that prompted the United States to question if Moscow was hiding something. The vote came after Washington accused Moscow of...

photo: UN / Loey Felipe

Massive protests in Argentina slam Milei’s education cuts 2024-04-24
Al Jazeera

Huge demonstrations have been held across Argentina to protest against education spending cuts. Students and university professors were joined by the country’s powerful trade unions and opposition political parties as hundreds of thousands rallied on Tuesday against the effect of President Javier...

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Ecuador approves extradition, anti-gang measures 2024-04-22
The Peninsula

Quito: A solid majority of Ecuadoran voters on Sunday approved the extradition to the United States of organized crime bosses in a referendum on measures against drug trafficking and gangs, the electoral council said. The "yes" vote in favor of extradition received 65 percent of valid ballots, while...

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