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At least 119 people were kidnapped by criminal gangs in Haiti during the first half of October
Some say online giant may be seeking to distract from recent scandals, controversy; company refuses to acknowledge report by tech news site The Verge
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled Monday that abuse against journalist Jineth Bedoya 'could not have been carried out without the consent and collaboration of the [Colombian] State, or at least with its tolerance'
Blinken pointed to Ecuador's vaccination rate of more than 50%
Once the delight of traditional ceremonies, the local beverage is suffering a decline in popularity, battered by modern breweries
China was the undisputed heartland of crypto mining with about two-thirds of global capacity in September 2019, but last month Beijing declared illegal all transactions involving crypto money
Killings came a day after a street vendor and a laborer, also from Bihar, were killed in separate shootings
The precise number of victims has never been made clear, and some activists fear several hundred could have been killed
The country, Africa's last absolute monarchy, faces a wave of pro-democracy protests
After more than two years in pre-trial detention, Alaa Abdel-Fattah will be tried in a State Security court whose verdicts cannot be appealed, his lawyer said
Arrival of a crew of three at China's Tiangong station is the latest landmark in the country's drive to become a major space power
Aim is to ensure a recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic
The motive for the attack, which took place in several locations in the center of Kongsberg, was not yet known, but police said terrorism could not be ruled out
Since the start of the year, attacks by suspected jihadis have skyrocketed in the area
The Swedish government invited social media giants TikTok, Google and Facebook along with representatives from 40 countries, the United Nations and Jewish organizations to the event designed to tackle the rising global scourge of antisemitism
Danish shipping giant AP Moller-Maersk said Tuesday it had started to divert vessels away from Britain's biggest container port because of congestion, the latest fallout from multiple crises hitting the United Kingdom
The Mapuche are Chile's largest Indigenous group, numbering 1.7 million out of the country's 19 million population
Colombian governor claims he survived two armed attacks in the space of 24 hours in a region rife with dissident left-wing guerrillas
The soldiers died when their motorcycles ran over a homemade bomb
Beijing, the world's biggest polluter, has sought to position itself in recent years as a world leader on climate issues
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