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Just sensational
News, Published on 17/04/2023
» Re: "'Seven days' not enough," (Editorial, April 14).
Veteran Spanish director Saura dies at 91
AFP, Published on 10/02/2023
» PARIS - Acclaimed Spanish director Carlos Saura, who died on Friday, hit the global spotlight in the 1960s with critiques of Franco's dictatorship, later focusing on films about music and dance, notably flamenco.
Mexico's 'Black Panther' star fights racism at home
AFP, Published on 20/11/2022
» MEXICO CITY: In Hollywood, he's the rising star of the sequel to "Black Panther," the first major Black superhero movie. In his homeland Mexico, Tenoch Huerta is leading a fight against racism on the screen.
Unthinking flyboys
Oped, Postbag, Published on 30/09/2022
» Re: "RTAF sorry for airport flight delays", (BP, Sept 28).
The 'pink tide' is rising in Latin America
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 15/06/2022
» 'Corruption isn't fought with slogans on TikTok," complained veteran Colombian presidential candidate Gustavo Petro. But social media can win elections, and a right-wing dark horse called Rodolfo Hernández, who calls himself the "King of TikTok", may crush Mr Petro's hopes of becoming Colombia's first-ever leftist president next Sunday.
Shock over Brazil police 'torture, executions' in drug raid
AFP, Published on 27/05/2022
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Bodies from a Rio de Janeiro police raid that left more than 20 alleged drug traffickers dead show signs of torture and summary execution, a senior lawyer said on Thursday, the latest incident of suspected police brutality to shock the South American nation.
Women's skateboarding soars in Brazil after Tokyo Olympics
AFP, Published on 23/09/2021
» SAO PAULO: When she saw 13-year-old Brazilian Rayssa Leal win silver in the first-ever street skateboarding competition at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Giovanna Alves Farias only had one wish: to start flying around a skate park herself.
Life in the crossfire of Venezuela's slums
AFP, Published on 26/07/2021
» CARACAS - A Venezuelan soldier takes cover behind an armored vehicle. For 48 hours he has ducked flying bullets.
9 injured in juvenile training centre brawl
Chakkrapan Natanri, Published on 26/05/2021
» KHON KAEN: A brawl broke out inside the Regional Juvenile Vocational Training Centre 4 between two groups of juvenile delinquents. Nine teenagers in the centre were injured.
Troops and police patrol Bogota as uneasy calm returns
AFP, Published on 24/11/2019
» BOGOTA - Police and soldiers patrolled the streets of Bogota on Saturday following a rare overnight curfew imposed after massive protests against President Ivan Duque turned at times to violence.