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Nicaragua's Ortega seeks to ban 'traitors' from future elections
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega aims to exclude "traitors" and "coup-plotting" opposition members from elections, while also seeking to extend the presidential term from six to...
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S&P says El Niño unlikely to trigger rating changes, for now
El Niño is unlikely on its own to lead to sovereign rating downgrades unless the weather phenomenon proves significantly more severe than expected or governments respond with cost...
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Lula leads Flavio Bolsonaro in potential Brazil runoff, poll shows
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva leads a potential second-round vote in the October presidential election against opposition Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, an AtlasIntel/...
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Boeings identified in Reuters report carried weapons for Sudanese paramilitary, UN experts find
United Nations experts have found that Boeing 727s linked by Reuters to a U.S. military contractor's business network transported mercenaries, weapons and drones for Sudan's Rapid ...
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Trump says he does not care about USMCA as US, Canada plan trade talks
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he does not care about updating the North American trade agreement as Canada disclosed plans to send senior trade officials to Was...
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Guatemalan man deported from US and wife found dead in sugarcane field, baby alive beside them
A Guatemalan man deported from the U.S. and his wife, who recently self-deported to join him, were found dead in a sugarcane field in southwestern Guatemala, authorities said on T...
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Brazil inflation nears target band, supporting more monetary easing
Brazil's 12-month inflation rate undershot forecasts and moved closer to the central bank's target range in its mid-July reading, official data showed on Tuesday, paving the way ...
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Peru's Fujimori takes power, extending Latin America's rightward tilt
Keiko Fujimori will be sworn in as Peru's president on Tuesday, becoming the latest in a string of conservative leaders elected across Latin America by voters frustrated by crime,...
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Brazil requests WTO consultations over US tariffs
Brazil has requested consultations with the U.S. under the World Trade Organization's dispute settlement system over tariffs announced by the Trump administration this month, the...
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Haiti schedules first election in a decade for December
Haiti's CEP electoral council on Monday scheduled the first presidential elections in a decade for December with a runoff in February, after plans to hold the vote in August with ...
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UN mission says Venezuela's ICC withdrawal undermines accountability
A United Nations fact-finding body on Venezuela said on Monday it was "gravely concerned" over the country's withdrawal from the International Criminal Court and urged it to rejoi...
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Mexico economy likely rebounded in second quarter
Mexico's economy is likely to have recovered in the second quarter, driven mainly by a rebound in industrial activity, according to a Reuters poll on Monday.
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Peru's president-elect Fujimori names key ministerial appointments
Peru's President-elect Keiko Fujimori on Monday named the Economy Minister, Foreign Minister, and Prime Minister for her administration, which is due to be sworn into govern...
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Shot fired outside US Consulate in Toronto for second time this year
At least one shot was fired outside the U.S. Consulate in downtown Toronto early on Monday but there were no injuries, police said, in what was the second such incident in the last...
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Durigan says Brazil will press US on tariffs, expects solution after election
Brazil's Finance Minister Dario Durigan said on Monday that U.S. tariffs on several goods from his country amount to "external interference" and predicted the dispute would be re...
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Brazil's Lula holds lead over Bolsonaro in BTG/Nexus election poll
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva leads Senator Flavio Bolsonaro in a simulated second-round runoff for October's presidential election, a Nexus poll commissioned by ...
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IMF chief visits Argentina as 2027 debt hurdle looms
The International Monetary Fund's managing director arrives in Argentina on Monday as investor confidence in President Javier Milei's reforms grows, despite worries about a debt r...
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Emerging markets stare at inflation risks as powerful El Niño looms
Emerging economies already strained by the Middle East conflict face a new threat: a potentially powerful El Niño that could push up food prices and slow growth.
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