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The U.S., Britain, European nations and others could satisfy their own needs and still have large quantities to redistribute globally
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Ida blazed a trail of destruction north after slamming into Louisiana over the weekend, bringing severe flooding and tornadoes
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Biden has faced tough questions about the way the U.S. went about leaving Afghanistan, a chaotic evacuation with spasms of violence
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. will continue to try to get Americans and Afghans out of the country
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The soldiers were among the 6,000 US troops President Joe Biden deployed to assist in a massive airlift evacuation
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He reaffirmed the August 31 deadline for all US troops to leave Afghanistan and said the US forces would fly out as many people as possible
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The storm was downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm, and made landfall near Westerly
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A longtime district attorney and former senator, Harris is largely untested in international diplomacy and foreign policy
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AFM is a medical emergency and patients should seek immediate medical care, even in areas with high novel coronavirus incidence
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OAS review of violence that followed 2019 election stops short of calling Jeanine Áñez’s ascent to power a coup but finds ‘irregularities’
Bolivia’s recent interim government came to power by sidestepping constitutional rules for presidential succession and persecuted opponents with “systematic torture” and “summary executions” by security forces in the tumultuous aftermath of Evo Morales’s resignation in 2019, according to a new report by independent human rights experts.
The scathing 471-page report is the most comprehensive yet to examine the events surrounding the disputed 2019 presidential vote, when Morales’s narrow election to an unprecedented fourth term triggered widespread protests spurred by strong international allegations of voting fraud – claims later questioned by foreign electoral experts.
Related: Cycle of retribution takes Bolivia’s ex-president from palace to prison cell
Related: ‘What happened was a massacre’: grief and rage in Bolivia after day of deadly violence
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In April, the US issued a level 4 travel health notice for India as the country was reeling under the second wave of COVID-19
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A round-up of the coverage of the struggle for human rights and freedoms, from Thailand to Mexico
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Tech giants like Facebook, Google and Microsoft have all said they will require employees to get jabbed before returning to their US offices
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Seven other senior officials accused of serious human rights violations or undermining democracy
The European Union has slapped sanctions on Nicaragua’s first lady and Vice-President Rosario Murillo and seven other senior officials accused of serious human rights violations or undermining democracy, amid a sweeping crackdown on opposition politicians in the Central American country.
EU headquarters said in a statement that the sanctions, which include asset freezes and bans on travel in Europe, “are targeted at individuals and are designed in this way not to harm the Nicaraguan population or the Nicaraguan economy”.
Related: Nicaragua rounds up president’s critics in sweeping pre-election crackdown
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‘He died as he lived, resisting’, says mother of young artist killed in Cali, as report claims authorities used systematic ‘pattern of violence’ in city
Nicolás Guerrero, a 26-year-old artist from the Colombian city of Cali, took to the streets on 2 May to protest against the lack of opportunities he saw in his country. He had a family in Spain that he had hoped one day to bring to South America. But later that night, after riot police launched a brutal crackdown, he was found lying on the pavement, seriously wounded. He died hours later in hospital.
Related: ‘They can’t take it any more’: pandemic and poverty brew violent storm in Colombia
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A roundup of the coverage of the struggle for human rights and freedoms, from Haiti to Pakistan
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Karapiru Awá Guajá, among the last of the hunter-gatherer Awá tribe, survived a massacre and a decade alone in the forest, inspiring others with his resilience and ‘extraordinary warmth’
He survived a massacre that killed most of his family in the Brazilian Amazon and lived for 10 years alone in the forest, but Karapiru Awá Guajá could not escape the pandemic.
Karapiru, one of the last of the hunter-gatherer nomadic Awá of Maranhão state, died of Covid-19 earlier this month. With only 300 Awá thought to remain, they have been called the “earth’s most threatened tribe”.
I spent a long time in the forest. I was always running away, on my own. I had no family to help me, to talk to
I hope the same things that happened to me won’t happen to my daughter. I hope it won’t be like in my time
Related: Yanomami beset by violent land-grabs, hunger and disease in Brazil
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The pandemic and procedural delays meant that Weinstein’s extradition took well over a year
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The US also eased travel recommendations on Pakistan from Level 4 to Level 3
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Cases rose 10 per cent last week to nearly 3 million, with the highest numbers recorded in Brazil, India, Indonesia and Britain
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Late Saturday, flames jumped U.S. 395, which was closed near the small town of Doyle in California’s Lassen County
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Delta is the most infectious strain of the virus since the start of the global pandemic in early 2020
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The world needs a global vaccine plan to at least double the production of vaccines and ensure equitable distribution
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Interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph said the police and military were in control of security in Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas
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Terms like residential school are deeply inadequate. These were not schools; they were prisons and forced labour camps
We’d all heard the stories, long before they started to receive this summer’s 24/7 coverage by every news station in Canada. Long before ground-penetrating radars confirmed the presence of unmarked graves, we knew that our missing family members did not simply “disappear” nor attempt and fail to run away from residential schools, despite what we were told by missionaries and government officials. Indigenous communities are necessarily close-knit, and we live in the histories of our people despite every effort at the eradication of our knowledges, cultures, languages – and of our lives.
Published in 2015, the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report of Canada (TRC) estimated that 4,100 named and unnamed students died in Canada’s residential schools. To keep costs low, the report said, many were likely buried in untended and unmarked graves at school cemeteries, rather than sending the students’ bodies back to their home communities. Often, parents were not notified at all, or the children were said to have died from sickness – an excuse commonly used to justify intentional genocides of Indigenous nations, predicated on our supposed biological inferiority.
Erica Violet Lee is nêhiyaw from Saskatoon and a member of Thunderchild First Nation. She is a poet, scholar, and community organizer
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A roundup of the coverage on struggles for human rights and freedoms, from Chile to Cambodia
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Weather experts say the number of heat waves are only likely to rise in the Pacific Northwest, a region normally known for cool weather
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The heat wave has stretched emergency services, with at least 134 people dying suddenly since Friday
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Brazilian federal prosecutors have opened an investigation into the deal, citing comparatively high prices and pending regulatory approvals
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