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Why isn't the media covering what's happening in Brazil?

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Demonstrations have erupted across Brazil, and curiously, they have gone largely unreported across the media. On Monday, an estimated ...

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Nicaragua approves plan to build canal between the Pacific and Caribbean with China

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Opponents say the ambitious plan is being rushed - but a Nicaraguan congressional committee has given the approval to a China-based ...

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Growing clout of evangelical churches in Catholic Brazil gaining new ground

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Brazil, Latin America's largest nation has seen an unprecedented rise in evangelical Christian churches. Pentecostalism was ...

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Mexican Army rescues hundreds from house of horrors

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Soldiers of the Mexican Army have rescued 165 migrants from kidnappers who were being held in squalid conditions just south of the ...

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Mormon woman sent to Mexican prison in horrifying drug case

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A U.S. woman remains in Mexican custody today after she was accused of attempting to smuggle drugs into the United States. The ...

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Is the 'human cost' in the war on drugs too high?

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With millions of civilians, soldiers and criminals all dead, and no change in sight, a summit of Latin American nations has suggested ...

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High-tech Indiana Jones team discovers the fabled lost city of Ciudad Blanca

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Scientists have discovered what they believe could be Ciudad Blanca, a fabled lost city hidden deep within the jungles of Honduras. ...

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Has the lost 'White City of gold' been found at last?

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Ciudad Blanca, or the "White City," according to legend, was full of gold and had been sought out by explorers and treasure ...

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Why did the world's laziest workers destroy a treasured Mayan pyramid?

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Construction workers seeking gravel for a project decided to take it from one place where it was easy to get - a 2,300 year old Mayan ...

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Scientists discover 'Brazilian Atlantis' off Rio coast

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Geologists think they may have found another lost continent, after studying rocks brought up from the sea floor off the coast of South ...

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Would emergency parachutes in high-rise buildings stave off another 9/11 disaster?

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The world watched in horror as those trapped in the World Trade Center at the top floors faced burning to death or falling to their ...

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Obama: Guantanamo 'is not in the best interest of the American people'

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The foreboding prison of Guantanamo, set aside specifically for suspected terrorists, according to U.S. President Barack Obama now ...

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Mexicans view U.S., Obama more favorably, 20 percent would immigrate illegally

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Mexicans are viewing the United States more favorably again, according to a national opinion survey of Mexico done by the Pew Research ...

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NEW DISCOVERY: Origins of Maya civilization were more complex than first believed

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New findings at a Mayan excavation site called Ceibal suggest that the origins of the Maya civilization were far more complex than ...

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Declared the antichrist, three-day-old baby burned to death by Chilean cult leader

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In a horrific example of religious cultism, a church leader in rural Chile cast a three-day-old baby on to a roaring bonfire after ...

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Al-Qaeda terrorist bombing plot foiled by Canadian Mounties

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A diabolical plot to bomb a train from New York headed to Toronto by al-Qaeda operatives has been foiled by the Canadian Mounties. As ...

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Riots break out in Venezuela after elections

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Riots have swept across the South American nation of Venezuela following a hotly contested presidential election. The victor in that ...

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Study: Mayans were wiped out by drought, climate change

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The world did not end on December 21 last year, which was suggested by the ancient Mayan calendar. Scientists now say that the Mayan ...

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Venezuelan opposition leader demands recount of ballots

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In the nation's first elections following the passing of former President Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique ...

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Guatemala confronts Ixil Mayan genocide in courtroom

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The South American nation of Guatemala is finally addressing a very dark period in its 20th Century history. In the early 1980s, ...

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Brazilian boy takes two-day canoe trip after being harpooned in the face

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A 15-year-old Brazilian boy embarked on a risky two-day canoe voyage through the Amazon, Accidentally harpooned in the face by his ...

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U.S. signs controversial UN arms treaty

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The United Nations general assembly has passed a new comprehensive arms treaty that regulates the $70 billion dollar-per-year arms ...

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Illegal U.S. border crossings have doubled since amnesty talks

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Border Patrol agents have reported seeing illegal border crossings double in the past few weeks. They warn that the cutting of agent ...

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San Pedro Sula - where there are three murders daily

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The Honduran city of San Pedro Sula has topped a new list of the world's most violent places on earth. Topping a list comprised ...

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Vigilantes take over Mexican town, arrest police

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Thousands of armed vigilantes have taken over Mexican town Tierra Colorado and have arrested police officers after their ...

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Brazilian doctor accused of mass murdering as many as 300 - in order to free up beds

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When nurses and doctors are linked to serial murder, it's usually due to a "God complex" where the medical practitioner ...

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Gruesome tableaux of murdered men propped in plastic chairs terrifies Mexico

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The bodies of seven murdered men, propped up in plastic chairs with messages nailed to their chests with ice picks have horrified the ...

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Haiti remains in chaos long after earthquake

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More than three long years ago on January 12, 2010, an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck Haiti, its epicenter ten ...

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