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South America
Military hands out masks to protect isolated Amazon tribes
Dozens of indigenous communities have been infected, likely by loggers and gold prospectors, with the latest disease to threaten their existence.
- by Leonardo Benassatto
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Indigenous justice
Two Indigenous men killed by illegal gold prospectors in Amazon
Members of the Yanomami ethnic group say the two men were shot and killed by prospectors who were trespassing on the community's land.
- by Daniel Carvalho
Coronavirus pandemic
Beijing's latest outbreak 'came from Europe' as numbers soar worldwide
China's capital recorded a further drop in coronavirus cases amid tightened containment measures while Brazil surpassed more than 1 million confirmed infections.
Coronavirus pandemic
No flights, man sails across Atlantic to be with parents
The 47-year-old had only 24 hours to plan a trip that would take him from Portugal across the ocean and down the entire coast of Brazil onto Argentina.
Foreign relations
Trump taps architect of anti-Maduro strategy to lead Latin bank
Since its founding in 1959, the Washington-based development bank has always been led by someone from Latin America.
- by Joshua Goodman
Coronavirus pandemic
Brazil reports record 34,918 new coronavirus cases in a day
Brazil also registered 1282 COVID-19 deaths since its last update on Monday, the Health Ministry said, bringing confirmed fatalities in the country to 45,241.
- by Pedro Fonseca
Coronavirus pandemic
Coronavirus hitting the Americas hardest, World Health Organisation says
"We are very much in the upswing of this pandemic, particularly in the global south," the WHO's top emergency expert Mike Ryan said.
- by John Revill and Stephanie Nebehay
Coronavirus pandemic
Graves dug in Copacabana Beach to protest handling of COVID-19 pandemic
Brazilians critical of their government's ambiguous response to a surging coronavirus pandemic have dug 100 graves on Rio's Copacabana Beach.
- by Sergio Queiroz
Coronavirus pandemic
Bolsonaro government ordered to publish Brazil's full COVID-19 toll
A Brazilian Supreme Court judge has ordered the government of President Jair Bolsonaro publish full COVID-19 data, including the cumulative death toll.
- by Marcelo Silva De Sousa
Coronavirus pandemic
Brazil stops publishing tally of coronavirus deaths, infection
Brazil has stopped publishing total rates of coronavirus death and infection, sparking accusations that it is covering up the scale of the country's epidemic.
- by Roland Oliphant
Coronavirus pandemic
Bolsonaro threatens WHO exit as COVID-19 kills 'a Brazilian per minute'
In comments to journalists, Brazil's president said the country will consider leaving the WHO unless it ceases to be a "partisan political organisation."
- by Lisandra Paraguassu and Ricardo Brito