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South America
Six foreigners arrested over alleged ‘CIA-led plot’ to kill Venezuela’s president
The US says any claims of its involvement in a plot to overthrow President Nicolas Maduro are “categorically false”.
- by Manuel Rueda
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A footvolley star dog is beating Rio beachgoers at their own game
The game is a combination of soccer and beach volleyball. The athlete? A three-year-old border collie named Floki.
- by David Biller
This country will have Christmas in October. People are not happy
With a nationwide blackout, a broken economy and a widely contested election result there are only so many things a leader can do to win popular support.
- by Julie Turkewitz
Musk’s troubles in Brazil grow as Starlink threatened
“The Brazilian judiciary may have given an important signal that the world is not obliged to put up with Musk’s far-right ideology just because he is rich,” Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said.
- by Daniel Carvalho
World of photos, August 30, 2024
The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.
Analysis
Royal family
More questions than answers from Harry and Meghan’s Colombian visit
Colombia is not a country in which the former working royals are well-known and their four-day quasi-royal tour had no clear thread, no obvious aim.
- by Victoria Ward
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Domestic violence
‘Grievous bodily harm’: Argentina’s ex-president accused of beating first lady
The accusations came to light when investigators found photos of former first lady with a black eye and a bruised arm on the phone of the ex-president’s former secretary.
- by Jack Nicas and Daniel Politi
Passenger plane crashes in fiery wreck in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state
A plane with 61 people aboard headed for Sao Paulo’s international airport has crashed in the city of Vinhedo.
- by Gabriel Araujo
Colombia moves to ban souvenirs of drug lord Pablo Escobar
Shop owners oppose plans to outlaw the sale of merchandise depicting the dead cartel kingpin, but others believe the country should shed its image of being home to mafia bosses.
- by Manuel Rueda
Sharks test positive to high levels of cocaine off the coast of Brazil
Marine biologists tested 13 Brazilian sharpnose sharks from coastal waters near Rio de Janeiro and found high levels of cocaine in their systems.
- by Nick Squires