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Chinese-backed port project in Peru to be the 'gateway from South America to Asia,' official says

Dozens of cranes lift blocks weighing several tons and drop them to compact the soil of a roughly one-square-mile area on Peru’s Pacific coast, part of China’s most ambitious port project in Latin America designed to facilitate trade between the regions

The Independent UK

Chikungunya virus surges in South America. But a new discovery could help outfox it

South America has seen a quarter million cases this year, as climate change is a boon for the mosquitoes that spread it. A study about how the virus infects cells could help inform future treatments.

WEKU

AOC calls on US to declassify documents that could shed light on Washington’s involvement in Chilean coup

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says in Chile that it is imperative for the United States to declassify documents that could shed light on its involvement in the South American country’s 1973 coup

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Rep. Ocasio-Cortez calls on US to declassify documents on Chile's 1973 coup

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Parasite triggered painful uvula ulcer in man 5 years after he caught it in South America

A man unwittingly picked up a parasite, and years later, it triggered a throat infection.

LiveScience

Argentina presidential frontrunner calls China an ‘assassin’

Argentina’s presidential frontrunner Javier Milei would freeze relations with China and pull South America’s second-biggest economy out of the Mercosur trade bloc with Brazil, foreign policy proposals that are as radical as his economics.

The Times of India

New Paraguay president stresses South American country's ties with Taiwan at swearing-in ceremony

President Santiago Peña said Paraguay and Taiwan are “not just allies, but also brothers” when he was sworn in as the South American country’s new president on Tuesday

The Independent UK

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Alfredo Morelos and the post-Rangers Brazil transfer option

It's said the 27-year-old could be set for a permanent return to South America.

The National (Scotland)

Taiwan's vice president leaves on Paraguay trip amid Chinese efforts to isolate the island

Taiwan’s vice president has left on a trip to Paraguay to reinforce relations with his government’s last diplomatic partner in South America at a time when China is stepping up efforts to isolate the self-ruled island democracy

The Independent UK

Thursday briefing: Inside South America’s summit to save the Amazon

In today’s newsletter: After years of rampant exploitation under a far-right government, Brazil has brought together leaders to help secure the future of the world’s biggest rainforest – and create ‘a just ecological transition’

The Guardian - UK

Winter heatwave in Andes is sign of things to come, scientists warn

Human-caused climate disruption and El Niño push temperature in mountains to 37C

The Guardian - UK

‘Winter is disappearing’: South America hit by ‘brutal’ unseasonal heatwave

Buenos Aires records hottest start to August in 117 years, Chile sees highs towards 40C and Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil also bake

The Guardian - US

Argentina signs NASA's Artemis Accords for peaceful moon exploration

Argentina became the 28th country to sign the Artemis Accords on July 27, as NASA administrator Bill Nelson was in South America on a goodwill tour.

Space

Bolivia is the latest South American nation to use China's yuan for trade in challenge to the dollar

Bolivia is using the yuan to pay for imports and exports, becoming the latest country in South America to regularly use the Chinese currency in a small but growing challenge to the hegemony of the U.S. dollar

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Vatican abuse investigators begin their audit of secretive Peru-based Catholic society

Two key Vatican investigators have begun an audit in Peru’s capital of a secretive Roman Catholic society with chapters across South America and in the U.S. following allegations that its founder sexually molested young recruits

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian announces new roles in the Caribbean, South America and Africa, and expands its reporting on race in the UK and US

The seven newly-advertised roles – now open for applications – form part of the Guardian’s long-term programme of restorative justice following the publication of the Scott Trust’s legacies of enslavement report in March

The Guardian - UK

Avian flu may have killed millions of birds globally as outbreak ravages South America

Virus has spread around the world, with 200,000 wild birds dead in Peru alone and concerns Australia could be next

The Independent UK

Brazilian players at the Women's World Cup urge fans back home to skip work to watch their matches

Brazil’s players have urged their fans back in South America to stay home from work and watch them begin their Women’s World Cup campaign against Panama

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Rare piranha-like fish with 'human teeth' caught by young angler in Oklahoma

The invasive fish, known as a pacu, originates from South America and has evolved human-like gnashers to accommodate its varied diet.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Fishing in pond, boy catches exotic fish that has human teeth

A boy fishing a neighborhood pond in Oklahoma caught an exotic fish from South America that is related to piranha and has odd choppers.

WEKU

An 11-year-old boy caught a fish with 'human-like teeth' in an Oklahoma pond

A boy in Oklahoma reeled in an alarmingly weird catch this past weekend: a pacu, the South American fish that's a cousin of the piranha — and whose humanlike teeth have long struck fear in swimmers.

The Hindu

Thrissur Zoological Park initiates steps to procure anacondas, elands, giraffes

African wildlife species such as giraffe, zebra and eland (African antelope) and South America’s anacondas are likely to find their way to the Thrissur Zoological Park, Puthur, which is set to open its doors to the public in the first quarter of next year.

The Independent UK

Biden administration suspends satellite monitoring of Colombian coca crops amid surge in cocaine

The Biden administration has quietly suspended satellite monitoring of coca crops in Colombia amid a surge of cocaine flowing into the U.S. from South America

Tribune News Service

Prehistoric ‘bone bed’ unveiled in Maryland's Dinosaur Park

When Argentinian geologist Federico Alvarez Hazer immigrated to Baltimore one year ago to live with his wife, he imagined that his days working on fossil dig sites close to home — as he had in South America’s Patagonia region — were over.

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Meet AKT Motos, A Columbian Moto Brand You've Probably Never Heard Of

AKT Motos, a motorcycle manufacturer from Colombia, is building steam in the South American market. Let's take a closer look at this brand.

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