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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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Vasudev received medical attention from an off-duty paramedic and was taken to a hospital where he succumbed to his injuries
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US issued the warning pointing to the fuel and medicine shortages, as well as the COVID-19 and terror threats in the Island nation
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The remarks come amid increasing disquiet in the West over India’s indication to buy larger volumes of discounted crude oil from Russia
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Deadly catalogue of killings continues unchecked despite hopes raised by election of centre-left female president
One Sunday morning in January, Pablo Isabel Hernández set off to walk to church in San Marcos de Caiquín, a remote part of Honduras, but never arrived. One of Hernández’s brothers, who followed later, found Pablo, 33, dead on the road. He had been shot in the back.
The next day, as Thalía Rodríguez, 46, lay in bed with her partner 500 miles (800km) away in the capital, Tegucigalpa, masked armed men stormed into her flat and shot her in the head.
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US President also reiterated that such an action would prompt a ‘severe’ but so far undefined response from Western allies
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The US said it is in touch with India on the matter and sent a thinly-veiled message
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Government honours president who activists accuse of undermining Indigenous protections
Brazilian activists are outraged after Jair Bolsonaro – who has been accused of spearheading a cataclysmic attack on Indigenous rights – was honoured by his own government for his supposedly “altruistic” efforts to protect Indigenous lives.
Bolsonaro was granted the Medal of Indigenous Merit on Wednesday in recognition of what the justice ministry called his attempts to defend Indigenous communities in the South American country.
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Russia calls its actions a ‘special military operation’ to demilitarise and ‘denazify’ Ukraine
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Demonstrators gathered in cities across Europe, the US and South America to demand an end to Russia’s invasion
Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in cities including Santiago, Vancouver Paris and New York in support of Ukraine, demanding an end to Russia’s invasion.
The protesters rallied on Saturday against Russian president Vladimir Putin’s attack, which began on 24 February and appeared to be entering a new phase with escalating bombardment.
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Mateo Sobode Chiqueno’s lifelong project compiling cassettes of the Ayoreo people’s stories, songs and struggles to survive is now the subject of an award-winning film, Nothing but the Sun
In a tattered cardboard box in Mateo Sobode Chiqueno’s home, hundreds of plastic cassette cases contain four decades of memories. “Here in my house, I have more than 1,000 cassettes of Ayoreo histories and songs,” says Chiqueno, who keeps them alongside his tape recorder at his wooden shack in Campo Loro, Paraguay. Many of the voices belong to people who are dead.
Chiqueno began compiling his interviews with the Ayoreo, hunter-gatherers of the Chaco Forest, in 1979, after seeing missionaries using tape recorders to document their experiences. His tapes partially preserve a fast-disappearing culture.
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The H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act will reduce fraud and abuse, provide protections for American workers and visa holders
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