Month: June 2019
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Soccer shoot-outs are highly dependent on strategy, not luck
The line-up order in which the penalty kicks are taken must be the main coaching consideration
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What Trump’s brief visit to North Korea means
The current president of the United States became the first in history to step on North Korean soil. Will negotiations…
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From gunbattles to tourism: Colombia’s ex-rebels turn rafting guides
Reincorporation is considered fundamental to ensuring former FARC members do not return to the battlefield
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As sales boom, Chile’s avocado ‘green gold’ is blamed for water shortages
Its abundant produce helps make Chile the world's third largest exporter of the popular fruit. But the bounty has come…
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With Venezuela in collapse, towns slip into primitive isolation
In the mountains of the state of Lara, residents of the town of Guarico are paying bills with coffee beans,…
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Drug cartels’ ties to politics in spotlight as Guatemala votes
The mayor of Nueva Concepcion, a town of Guatemala, was accused by prosecutors of drug trafficking and money laundering for…
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Major companies found using courts to avoid Brazil’s slave labor ‘dirty list’
A dozen firms that were found by the government to have engaged in slave labor have gone to court to…
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Baby wipes, tents and private jets: festivals vow to go green
Less than one-third of the 23,500 tonnes of waste produced by Britain's 3 million music festival-goers each year is recycled
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Chilean bishop resigns after comments about Last Supper
The Archdiocese of Santiago did not specify the reasons for Irarrazaval's departure, but said Pope Francis had accepted the bishop's…
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Rio de Janeiro expands unpaid prison labor program
By law, inmates must be paid to work, but last year Rio's government created a new category of "volunteer labor"…
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