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A footvolley star dog is beating Rio beachgoers at their own game

A footvolley star dog is beating Rio beachgoers at their own game

The game is a combination of soccer and beach volleyball. The athlete? A three-year-old border collie named Floki.

  • by David Biller

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This country will have Christmas in October. People are not happy

This country will have Christmas in October. People are not happy

With a nationwide blackout, a broken economy and a widely contested election result there are only so many things a leader can do to win popular support.

  • by Julie Turkewitz
Musk’s troubles in Brazil grow as Starlink threatened

Musk’s troubles in Brazil grow as Starlink threatened

“The Brazilian judiciary may have given an important signal that the world is not obliged to put up with Musk’s far-right ideology just because he is rich,” Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said.

  • by Daniel Carvalho
World of photos, August 30, 2024
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World of photos, August 30, 2024

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.

More questions than answers from Harry and Meghan’s Colombian visit
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More questions than answers from Harry and Meghan’s Colombian visit

Colombia is not a country in which the former working royals are well-known and their four-day quasi-royal tour had no clear thread, no obvious aim.

  • by Victoria Ward
‘Grievous bodily harm’: Argentina’s ex-president accused of beating first lady
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‘Grievous bodily harm’: Argentina’s ex-president accused of beating first lady

The accusations came to light when investigators found photos of former first lady with a black eye and a bruised arm on the phone of the ex-president’s former secretary.

  • by Jack Nicas and Daniel Politi
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Passenger plane crashes in fiery wreck in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state

Passenger plane crashes in fiery wreck in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state

A plane with 61 people aboard headed for Sao Paulo’s international airport has crashed in the city of Vinhedo.

  • by Gabriel Araujo
Colombia moves to ban souvenirs of drug lord Pablo Escobar

Colombia moves to ban souvenirs of drug lord Pablo Escobar

Shop owners oppose plans to outlaw the sale of merchandise depicting the dead cartel kingpin, but others believe the country should shed its image of being home to mafia bosses.

  • by Manuel Rueda
Sharks test positive to high levels of cocaine off the coast of Brazil

Sharks test positive to high levels of cocaine off the coast of Brazil

Marine biologists tested 13 Brazilian sharpnose sharks from coastal waters near Rio de Janeiro and found high levels of cocaine in their systems.

  • by Nick Squires
Colombia is facing a new problem: too much cocaine

Colombia is facing a new problem: too much cocaine

Unsold blocks of coca paste are piling up across Colombia and it’s the families that pick the raw coca leaves that are suffering most.

  • by Genevieve Glatsky