Patients stand at an mpox treatment centre at Nyiragongo General Referral Hospital, north of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, on August 17, 2024.
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African health officials hopeful mpox shots will start within days as WHO says outbreak is ‘not the new Covid’
Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua's president, during the 23rd States of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America - People's Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) Summit at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. The alliance of leftist countries in the region are meeting to reject the US's reimposed oil sanctions on Venezuela, ending a six-month reprieve for the Maduro regime. Photographer: Gaby Oraa/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Nicaragua forces 1,500 church and civil society groups to close
The country's coat of arms hangs on the facade of a government building in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024. Prime Minister Keith Rowley announced on Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024, that the country is redrawing the island's coat of arms to remove references to European colonization, replacing Christopher Columbus' three ships with the steelpan, a popular percussion instrument. (AP Photo/Ash Allen)
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Trinidad is redrawing its coat of arms to remove Columbus’ three famous ships
A Colombian migrant, with his hands and feet handcuffed, climbs a plane at the Albrook Gelabert airport in Panama City on August 20, 2024, during his deportation. Panama on Tuesday deported 29 Colombians with criminal records who had entered the country through the inhospitable Darien Gap, applying for the first time a deal on migrant repatriations signed with the United States in July. (Photo by ARNULFO FRANCO / AFP)
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Panama deports 29 Colombian migrants on first US-funded repatriation flight
President Michel Joseph Martelly of Haiti waits to address attendees during the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, in October 2015.
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US sanctions former Haitian President Martelly over drug trafficking allegations
A man casts his vote during the Venezuelan presidential election, in Caracas on July 28, 2024.
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After Venezuela’s contested presidential vote, experts say government results are a ‘statistical improbability’
Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, right, and presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez hold a press conference after electoral authorities declared President Nicolas Maduro the winner of the presidential election in Caracas, July 29, 2024.
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Venezuela launches criminal investigation into opposition figures
Palestinians rush towards a column of smoke billowing following Israeli bombardment which hit a school complex, including the Hamama and al-Huda schools, in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood in the north of Gaza City on August 3, 2024.
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Israeli airstrikes on two Gaza shelters kill 17, says Gaza Civil Defense
People protest the official election results declaring President Nicolas Maduro the winner of the presidential election, the day after the vote in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, July 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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Venezuela is wracked with protests and election uncertainty. Here’s what to know
CARACAS, VENEZUELA - JULY 30: Assistants show voting records and wave flags during a protest against the result of the presidential election on July 30, 2024 in Caracas, Venezuela. President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro was declared as the winner of the 2024 presidential election over his rival, Edmundo Gonzalez. The result has been questioned by the opposition and internationally. According to the opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, the result announced by the 'Consejo Nacional Electoral' (CNE) does not reflect the decision made by the Venezuelans during the election. (Photo by Alfredo Lasry R/Getty Images)
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Venezuelans have seen this movie before, but Maduro should beware. This time, the ending could be different
In Venezuela, voters caught in Maduro’s dangerous dance are seeking answers
Voters look at electoral lists prior to the opening of the polls for presidential elections in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, July 28, 2024.
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Venezuelans anxiously await results in crucial presidential election as opposition signal high voter turnout
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado waves during the campaign closing rally of presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia in Caracas on July 25, 2024.
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The woman behind Venezuela’s upstart opposition movement
TOPSHOT - In this aerial view migrants arrive at the Reception Center for Migrant Care in Lajas Blancas, in the jungle province of Darien, Panama, on June 28, 2024. Panama's president-elect, Jose Raul Mulino, has pledged to close the dangerous Darien Gap, a crucial corridor for migrants from South America, Central America, and Mexico, who seek better opportunities in the United States. Mulino is set to take office on July 1. (Photo by MARTIN BERNETTI / AFP) (Photo by MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP via Getty Images)
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10 migrants killed in floods crossing Darién Gap in Panama
Stanley, the capital of the Falkland Islands.
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Multiple crew members killed and missing after fishing boat sinks off Falkland islands
How Venezuela’s election could upend the geopolitics of the Americas
Couple found dead in lifeboat after failed Atlantic crossing
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Members of the Mashco Piro Indigenous community, a reclusive tribe and one of the world's most withdrawn, gather on the banks of the Las Piedras river where they have been sighted coming out of the rainforest more frequently in search of food and moving away from the growing presence of loggers, in Monte Salvado, in the Madre de Dios province, Peru, June 27, 2024. Survival International/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES
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Uncontacted tribe sighted in Peruvian Amazon where loggers are active
Dozens killed as bus plummets over 650 feet into ravine in Peru
Why a fair election in Venezuela could change the fate of millions of migrants – and Joe Biden
Thousands evacuated as ‘extremely aggressive’ wildfire burns in eastern Canada