Biden’s remarks could be seen as a setback to the Shehbaz Sharif government’s bid to improve ties with the US
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Fact-finding mission reports brutal massacres and sexual slavery in gold-rich arc where armed gangs fight for control
Struggling to get by amid Venezuela’s runaway inflation, widespread shortages and rampant unemployment, a young woman left the city of San Félix for the promise of a job deep in the forests of Bolívar state.
The offer made on Facebook promised a good salary in exchange for working in a booming mining town.
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United Nations mission says President Nicolás Maduro and others ordered ‘grave crimes’ including torture to stifle opposition
Venezuela’s intelligence agencies are committing crimes against humanity as part of a plan orchestrated at the highest level of government to repress dissent, UN experts have concluded.
A team tasked with investigating alleged violations in Venezuela said it had uncovered how members of intelligence services implemented orders by President Nicolás Maduro and others in a scheme to stifle opposition.
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The President’s National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) advises the White House on how to reduce physical and cyber risks
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Bunge and Cargill, behind more than 30% of soy exports to EU and UK, accused of exposing suppliers to link with indigenous rights violations
Two of the world’s biggest grain traders are sourcing soy from a Brazilian farm linked to abuses of indigenous rights and land, a report from the environmental group Earthsight claims
Earthsight named the companies as Bunge and Cargill and said they sourced soy produced on a farm located on ancestral land of the Kaiowá indigenous group.
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Indians acted very clearly on inviolable principle of state sovereignty, says US spokesperson
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The world’s richest man has a habit of posting provocative statements on Twitter for fun
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Manchester United, a storied English football club, is currently led by the six children of late American businessman Malcolm Glazer
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The New York State Police identified the suspect as Hadi Matar from Fairview, New Jersey while the motive behind the act is still unknown
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According to Rushdie’s agent, Andrew Wylie, the Mumbai-born controversial author was on a ventilator and could not speak
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The FBI had not yet confirmed the search or said what it might be for, and Trump is at the center of a slew of legal investigations
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The 71-year-old Egyptian surgeon, on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist list, had a USD 25 million bounty on his head
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Truth commission’s report, touted as a chance to heal after half a century of bloodshed, called for a ‘substantial change in drug policy’
The punitive, prohibitionist war on drugs helped prolong Colombia’s disastrous civil war, the country’s truth commission has found, in a landmark report published on Tuesday as part of an effort to heal the raw wounds left by conflict.
The report, titled “There is a future if there is truth” was the first instalment of a study put together by the commission that was formed as part of a historic 2016 peace deal with the leftist rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc).
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The grim discovery was one of the worst disasters involving migrants in the United States in recent years
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Gold is Moscow’s second largest export and banning imports would make it more difficult for Russia to participate in global markets
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The U.N. agency dealing with sexual and reproductive health said that whether or not abortion is legal ‘it happens all too often’
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Biden’s chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci tests COVID positive, has mild symptoms
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A senior senior administration official said that the agency would reevaluate the need for the testing requirement every 90 days
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At least 38,000 people have been arrested under Nayib Bukele’s draconic state of exemption
Only a few weeks ago, Sandra García was looking forward to the brighter future Nayib Bukele promised El Salvador’s opportunity-starved youth when he swept to power three years ago.
“I gave him my vote believing we’d have a better life,” said the 23-year-old, one of hundreds of thousands of young Salvadorans who chose the authoritarian-minded millennial as their president.
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The 148 votes against Johnson means that for the first time the public, and the rebels, know the scale of the opposition Johnson now faces
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If Johnson is ousted it would spark a Conservative leadership contest, in which several prominent government ministers are likely to run
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott named the suspect as Salvador Ramos, an 18-year-old local resident and a US citizen
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It will dislocate the entire region and be another action similar to what happened in Ukraine, Biden said
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India and China lead the world in pollution deaths with nearly 2.4 million and almost 2.2 million deaths a year
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Momentum on vaccination and treatment has faded even as new, more infectious variants rise and billions across the globe remain unprotected
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The world’s richest man Musk called the ban a ‘morally bad decision,’ saying permanent bans undermine trust in Twitter
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Roughly half of U.S. states are expected to move quickly to ban or greatly restrict abortion if Roe is overturned
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The move announced by the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday will go into effect from May 4, 2022
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The family of Emil Bustamante López has filed a case with the UN human rights committee, looking for answers
One day when she was 12 years old and still new to the ways of remembering the dead, Ana Isabel Bustamante took a photograph from the wardrobe where her mother kept her dark clothes and her most precious things.
Ana set the picture on a small table in the living room, where it remained for two days. On the third day, unable to look at the young, bearded face in the photo any longer, her mother put it back in the wardrobe.
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Ministers Rajnath Singh and Jaishankar, who spoke after Blinken at the briefing, did not comment on the human rights issue
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