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15 inmates killed in new Ecuador jail massacre

At least 15 inmates were killed and 14 injured in clashes Tuesday at a prison in the Ecuadoran port of Guayaquil, the latest in a series of massacres blamed on a war between drug cartels...

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Gunmen kill 10 in central Mexico bar attack

Gunmen in a truck pulled up to a bar in central Mexico and opened fire, killing 10 people, authorities said, in an area that had been spared the worst of the country\'s raging criminal violence.

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66,000 Cubans evacuated over flooding fears

More than 66,000 people have been evacuated in Cuba’s easternmost province Guantanamo, ahead of heavy rains that threaten a region already badly hit by Hurricane Oscar, local television...

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Morales supporters take 20 soldiers hostages

Supporters of Bolivia’s ex-president Evo Morales stormed a barracks in central Chapare province and took around 20 soldiers hostage, military sources said Friday, marking a dramatic...

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UN biodiversity summit makes good progress

Crunch UN talks on ways to ‘halt and reverse’ species loss by 2030 have made ‘very good progress,’ officials said Friday, as the summit in Colombia marked its halfway point.

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Musk’s X pays millions in Brazil fines

Elon Musk’s X has paid millions of dollars in fines in Brazil to settle a row with a judge who banned the platform in its biggest Latin American market over disinformation.

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Morales investigated for rape of a minor

Former president Evo Morales, who has locked horns with Bolivia’s current leader, is under investigation for allegedly raping a teenage girl when he was in power, the country’s justice minister...