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Brazil Olympic chief brokered $US2 million bribe to buy Rio Games: police
Brazilian investigators said politicians and the head of the national Olympic committee arranged a bribe to bring the 2016 games to Rio de Janeiro.
- by Pedro Fonseca
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Venezuelan opposition seeks help from France as crisis worsens
Venezuela's opposition-led Congress leaders have met with French President Emmanuel Macron to press for humanitarian aid to their crisis-hit nation.
- by Ingrid Melander
Brazil suspends Amazon mining decree after uproar
The Brazilian government has suspended a recently signed decree that would have seen a vast and protected section of the Amazon rainforest open to mining.
- by Lia Timson
A year since the Rio Olympics, the legacy of the games is tattered
The competition and party Rio threw for fans was considered a success. But RIo's sports facilities have languished as Brazil struggles to emerge from recession.
Venezuela's rebel prosecutor heads to Brazil as Maduro seeks her arrest
Venezuela's former chief prosecutor - who says she has proof of corruption at the highest levels of the socialist administration - fled to Brazil on Tuesday
- by Jim Wyss
Venezuela's democratically elected legislature is dissolved, deepening crisis
Venezuela's political crisis deepened on Friday as the controversial constitutional assembly declared that it is the country's sole legislative body.
- by Mery Mogollon and Chris Kraul
Venezuela's Socialist-run 'truth commission' to investigate opposition
Opposition candidates running in Venezuela's October gubernatorial elections will be investigated to make sure none were involved in violent political protests this year.
- by Hugh Bronstein
Venezuelan soldiers caught in Guyana begging for food
A handful of Venezuelan soldiers - armed and in uniform - have been caught in neighbouring Guyana begging for food, local police reported.
- by Jim Wyss
Hungry Venezuelans walk to Colombia for a plate of food
An estimated 25,000 Venezuelans trek across the Simon Bolivar International Bridge into Colombia each day for work or to trade goods on the black market.
- by Luz Dary Depablos
Venezuela crisis looms over US vice-president Pence's Latin America trip
US Vice-President Mike Pence touched down in Colombia on Sunday afternoon amid a deepening crisis in neighbouring Venezuela.
- by Philip Rucker
Donald Trump threatens Venezuela with 'military option'
Bedminster, NJ: US President Donald Trump threatened military intervention in Venezuela, a surprise escalation in Washington's response to Venezuela's political crisis.
- by James Oliphant