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Paraguay's conservatives score big win in presidential election
May 01, 2023 04:57Paraguay's ruling candidate Santiago Pena, 44, scored a big win in the country's presidential election on Sunday, tightening the conservative Colorado Party's political grip in the country.
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Russian FM urges nations to unite against US-led sanctions ‘blackmail’
Apr 19, 2023 08:18Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has called on like-minded countries to join forces against the “blackmail” of Western sanctions during a visit to Venezuela as part of his tour of Latin America.
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Honduras again extends state of emergency to fight violent gangs
Apr 08, 2023 10:27Honduras on Friday extended the country’s existing state of emergency that suspends some constitutional rights, to tackle violent gangs within the country.
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Death toll from Brazil floods, landslides reaches 54
Feb 24, 2023 12:42The death toll from heavy rains that devastated coastal areas of Brazil's southeastern Sao Paulo state reached 54 people on Friday, official figures showed, climbing from 50 reported a day earlier.
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Latin American states blast Israeli plan for nine new settlements in occupied West Bank
Feb 18, 2023 11:13A group of Latin American countries has decried the far-right Israeli cabinet’s decision to authorize nine illegal settlements in the West Bank, despite international outcry over the Tel Aviv regime’s land expropriation and settlement expansion policies in the Occupied Territories.
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Iran seriously pursues boosting ties with Latin America: Amir-Abdollahian
Feb 02, 2023 03:55Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says Iran seriously pursues boosting relations with Latin American countries.
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Iranian foreign minister heads to Latin America
Feb 01, 2023 11:23Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian began a tour of Nicaragua and Venezuela after a trip to Mauritania.
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Iranian Navy's 86th flotilla sailing in Latin America’s western waters: Commander
Jan 28, 2023 10:30Second-in-Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy, Rear Admiral Hamzeh Ali Kaviani, says the country’s 86th flotilla of warships is now sailing along the western shores of Latin America, and is going to berth at Brazil’s southeastern port city of Rio de Janeiro within the next few days.
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Nations split on plastics treaty focus as UN talks close
Dec 03, 2022 11:23The first round of negotiations on a global plastics treaty ended on Friday with a split on whether goals and efforts should be global and mandatory, or voluntary and country-led.
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Venezuela offers five million hectares for agricultural investment from Iran
Sep 13, 2022 09:43Venezuelan Agriculture Minister Wilmar Castro Soteldo says Caracas has offered at least five million hectares of land following agricultural investment agreements with producers from Iran and other countries.