LIMA, Peru (AP) – University student Yesenia Medina was trying to focus on her virtual psychology class G when a stunning headline hit her screen: Peruvian Congress voted to oust the country’s popular president. Furious, thousands of 23-year-old students, activists and others protested this week, announcing to Congress and refusing …
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MADELIN, Colombia (AP) – Famous opposition activist Leopoldo LaPaze has left the Spanish ambassador’s home in Caracas and Venezuela after years of frustrated efforts to oust the nation’s socialist president, his party said on Saturday. The 49-year-old Caracas-area mayor has been held at the ambassador’s residence since a failed military …
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – The death toll from Saturday night’s Covid-1 death toll in Brazil exceeded 100,000,000, despite signs that the epidemic is slowly receding in Latin America’s largest country. Brazil’s health ministry reports that the death toll is now 1,0,188. The figure ranks second in the world behind …
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PORT-AU PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – Marco was hit by a hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday en route to the coast of Louisiana, when Tropical Storm Laura killed at least seven people in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Laura went over Cuba before his path probably took him …
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BERLIN – Germany’s health inspectorate reported 2,034 new cases of coronavirus on Saturday, the first time the daily national increase since the end of April has been 2,000. The Robert Koch Institute calls the coronavirus outbreaks “very concerning.” They are reported in various institutions, including nursing homes and hospitals, schools, …
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