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Nuevo Laredo says it will receive migrants returned from US
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The border city of Nuevo Laredo is to begin receiving migrants returned from the United States as early as this week to wait in Mexico while their asylum claims wind their…
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Government moves migrant kids after AP exposes bad treatment
The U.S. government has removed most of the children from a remote Border Patrol station in Texas following reports that more than 300 children were detained there, caring for each other with inadequate food, water…
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Brazil says deaths from dengue up 163% in first half of year
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s health ministry says deaths from dengue fever in the last six months have risen 163% from the same period last year. The ministry said in a note Monday that…
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Italian mobster Rocco Morabito escapes from Uruguayan prison
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — A top Italian organized crime boss escaped during the night from the Uruguayan prison where he was awaiting extradition to Italy, Uruguay’s interior ministry said Monday. Rocco Morabito and three other…
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Government moves more than 300 children out of Texas Border Patrol station after AP report of perilous conditions
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Government moves more than 300 children out of Texas Border Patrol station after AP report of perilous conditions.
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Mexico newspaper’s printing director dies after attack
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A newspaper in Mexico says one of its staffers has died days after he was shot in the Gulf coast state of Tamaulipas. Juan Antonio Escamilla was shot five times Tuesday…
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Chile’s dictatorship-era children demand legal recognition
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Two months before Tamara Lagos was born in 1984, her father was killed by agents of the Chilean dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Soon after, her mother took her into exile…
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Mexico officials detain more migrants as crackdown steps up
ARRIAGA, Mexico (AP) — Authorities reinforced efforts over the weekend to deter Central Americans and others from crossing Mexico to reach the United States, detaining migrants in the south and stationing National Guardsmen along the…
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Huge crowds for LGBT pride parade in Brazil’s biggest city
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people filled a main São Paulo thoroughfare for one of the world’s largest LGBT pride parades — the first since the election of far-right President Jair…
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Thousands attend funeral of former Jamaican PM Edward Seaga
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Thousands of Jamaicans turned out Sunday for the funeral of former Prime Minister Edward Seaga, who was the last survivor of the generation of politicians who led the country to independence…
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Huge crowds for LGBT pride parade in Brazil’s biggest city
Hundreds of thousands of people filled a main São Paulo thoroughfare for one of the world’s largest LGBT pride parades — the first since the election of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. See photos.
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Correction: United States-Nicaragua
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a June 21 story about U.S. and Canadian sanctions imposed on some Nicaraguan officials, The Associated Press, referring to a press release, said Canada didn’t immediately identify who its sanctions were…
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US, Canada sanction Nicaraguan officials over human rights
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration and Canada’s government imposed sanctions Friday on some Nicaraguan officials, tying them to a tough crackdown on street demonstrations that began in the Central American country in April 2018.…
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El Salvador tells phone companies to block signals in jails
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s government is demanding that telephone companies completely block cellphone signals inside the country’s prisons, in a bid to stop gang leaders from ordering killings and other crimes…
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UN human rights chief meets in Venezuela with Guaidó, Maduro
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The United Nations’ top human rights official met separately Friday in Caracas with Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó and President Nicolás Maduro, who are locked in a prolonged struggle over control…
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