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Copa America is set up for Brazil's win, Messi fumes at CONMEBOL
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
Sao Paulo [Brazil], July 7 (ANI): Argentina's Lionel Messi was handed his first red-card in a 14-year long time span and this decision did not go down very well with the striker as he blasted CONMEBOL (South American football governing body) and said the whole tournament was set up for Br
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Copa America 2020 to be played in Argentina and Colombia
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], July 2 (ANI): CONMEBOL, the South American football's governing body, on Monday announced that Copa America 2020 will have two joint hosts- Argentina and Colombia.
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UN calls for dialogue in Venezuela
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
Caracas [Venezuela], June 22 (ANI): United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has called upon Venezuelan government and the opposition to put aside their deep political differences and commit to a dialogue aimed at ending the month-long political crisis in the South
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Massive blackouts leave 55 million people without electricity in S
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
Buenos Aires [Argentina], June 16 (ANI): South American countries like Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay were left in a complete blackout on Sunday due to a "massive failure" in an electrical interconnection system, according to Edesur which is a Buenos Aires-based electricity distributor.
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Maduro slams Pompeo's Cuba claims
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
Caracas [Venezuela], May 1 (ANI): Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro dismissed US Secretary of States Michael Pompeo's claim that the embattled President was planning on leaving the South American nation, but was convinced not to do so by Russia.
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Brazil being governed by 'bunch of lunatics', says former Presiden
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], Apr 27 (ANI): Criticising the current leadership in Brazil, the country's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday said that the South American nation is being governed by a "bunch of lunatics" or "crazy people".
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Ecuador: Native community defeats government in court, gets oil ex
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
Quito [Ecuador], Apr 27 (ANI): The native Waorani community on Friday (local time) fended off major degradation of their lands at the hands of oil companies by defeating three government bodies in court, for conducting a faulty consultation process with the people before putting their lan
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All US diplomats have left Venezuela: Pompeo
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Mar 15 (ANI): All American diplomats have temporarily left Venezuela, amid a mounting political and economic turmoil in the South American nation, US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said on Thursday.
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China offers to restore power in Venezuela
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China], Mar 13 (ANI): China on Wednesday offered help to restore Venezuela’s power grid amid the blackout that continued for the sixth day in the South American nation on Wednesday.
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Opposition leader Juan Guaido returns to Venezuela
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Caracas [Venezuela], Mar 5 (ANI): Leader of Opposition in the Venezuelan National Assembly Juan Guaido, who was on a tour of the South American nations to gather support for his election campaign to topple the government of President Nicolas Maduro, returned back to his country on Monday
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Amid Venezuela unrest, Pence to meet Guaido today
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Feb 25 (ANI): US Vice President Mike Pence is on his way to Colombia to meet Venezuela's self-declared interim president Juan Guaido, amidst the violent clashes along the borders of the South American nation over aid supplies to its citizens.
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Venezeula's interim President working closely to restore diplomati
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
Caracas [Venezuela], Feb 13 (ANI): Self-proclaimed interim President of Venzeula, Juan Guaido, is working towards restoring diplomatic relations with Israel, a decade since the South American country pledged its alliance in favour of Palestine, local media reports.
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