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Chile referendum: Consensus crumbles around new progressive constitution

"I saw a lot of young people, families. There was music and colorful flags; it had nothing to do with the political confrontation we see in the news everyday," she said. When she walked back to her car, Jorquera, who lives in Santiago, …

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Brazilian man survives 11 days floating alone in a freezer on the ocean

The man, Romualdo Macedo Rodrigues, is a fisherman. During a fishing trip in early August that was supposed to last three days, cracks in his boat started filling with water, sinking the vessel off the coast of northern Brazil. He was able to jump…

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Suspect in Argentine VP assassination attempt arrested in 2021 for carrying weapon

Argentine authorities have identified Fernando Sabag Montiel as the suspect who approached Fernández de Kirchner with a loaded gun outside her home in Buenos Aires on Thursday in what appears to be a failed assassination attempt. A police spokesp…

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Analysis: Why Gorbachev is remembered as a giant in the West and a pariah at home

The last leader of the Soviet Union died on Tuesday at the age of 91, with Washington and the Kremlin on opposite sides of President Vladimir Putin's hot war in Ukraine , launched in part to avenge the Soviet collapse precipitated by Gorbachev…

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