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BOA VISTA, Brazil (HPD) — Severe malnutrition and disease, especially malaria, are decimating the Yanomami population in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, and on Jan. 20 the federal government declared a public …
SANTIAGO (HPD) — Chilean President Gabriel Boric said Thursday that he will continue to speak out when human rights are violated, whether in Chile or abroad, after his criticism of …
OSWIECIM, Poland (HPD) — Auschwitz-Birkenau survivors commemorated the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp Friday, with some expressing horror that war has returned to Europe …
Por The Associated PressJanuary 27, 2023 GMT This photo gallery highlights some of the best news images taken by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean published between …
COPENHAGEN (HPD) — Two investigative journalists for a Finnish daily with a wide circulation were sentenced Friday to pay a fine for revealing national defense secrets in a 2017 article …
LOS ANGELES (HPD) — In less than 48 hours, two gunmen carried out open firefights on both ends of California, killing 18 people and wounding 10. Unrelated massacres at a …
MEXICO CITY (HPD) — Mexican immigration authorities said they found 57 Guatemalan teenagers crammed into a trailer on a highway near the U.S. border on Thursday. According to the National …
SAN SALVADOR (HPD) — The international organization Human Rights Watch assured on Friday that it has official data on massive violations of due process, extreme overcrowding in prisons and deaths …
MOSCOW (HPD) — A former Russian Orthodox monk who denied the existence of the coronavirus and defied the Kremlin was sentenced to seven years in prison Friday. Nikolai Romanov, 67, …
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (HPD) — A man armed with a Kalashnikov-style rifle stormed the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran on Friday, killing the head of security and wounding two guards, …
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (HPD) — An investigation by the world’s chemical weapons watchdog has found there are “reasonable grounds to believe” that the Syrian air force dropped two chlorine cylinders …
JERUSALEM (HPD) — Protesters marched Friday during the burial of the last of 10 Palestinians shot dead by Israeli forces a day earlier, though the likelihood of a clash seemed …