Americas
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The situation in hospitals is dire – patients wait hours, sometimes sleeping overnight in corridors to be first in the queue for their injuries to be treated
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A new breed of anti-corruption politicians, civil society groups and entrepreneurs are beginning to push back against graft in Mexico’s second city
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Print, which is 80m years old and probably belonged to the meat-eating predator abelisaurus, represents one of the largest of its kind ever found
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Suspended Brazilian president says she will not take a ‘secondary position’ to interim president Michel Temer, who will declare Games open on 5 August
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Three ships have now been damaged since the expanded waterway opened one month
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Less than two weeks before the start of the Games, 19 of 31 buildings have yet to pass full checks, with teams hinting they may demand compensation
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Risk of infection ‘very low indeed’, despite concerns heightened by first case in Europe of baby affected by the virus
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Archaeologists find seventh century system below Palenque, which houses tomb of Pakal whose sarcophagus some erroneously believe depicts him in spaceship
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Rafael Caro Quintero says he was not behind killing of Enrique ‘Kiki’ Camarena, which he was convicted of ordering
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US border patrol agents spot two Canadian teens fixated on their phones as
the pair inadvertently walked southbound from Alberta into Montana
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Ontario judge used verdict to deliver a scathing attack on rape myths and the treatment of sexual assault complainants and victims in Canada’s legal system
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Journalist Carmen Aristegui led team that revealed in 2014 that Mexico’s first lady had bought $7m mansion from contractor with links to her husband
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Descendants of slaves accuse developers of riding roughshod over history by destroying archaeological remains at site where journalists will stay for Games
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Women's rights and gender equality The gender agenda: what has Obama done for women and girls?
Sarah Degnan KambouThe White House development summit gives a chance to reflect on Obama’s successes – and renew efforts to put women at the heart of eradicating poverty -
Gone Missing weaves together the story of three families affected since as many as 4,000 indigenous women have disappeared or been killed
Who really won the legal battle between Philip Morris and Uruguay?