On Monday, Peru’s legislature selected the country’s third president in a week, seeking to stanch growing street protests over lawmakers’ decision to remove a popular president from office last week. But the decision to name Francisco Sagasti, an engineer and academic
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https://im-media.voltron.voanews.com/Drupal/01live-166/2020–11/afp_ethiopia_sudan_refugees_16Nov20.jpg?imwidth=800The border town of Hamdayat, Sudan, is now home to thousands of refugees from Ethiopia’s Tigray region fleeing violence. Among the estimated 8,000 who have arrived in recent days are the parents of seven-month-old twins born prematurely, laying on a
https://im-media.voltron.voanews.com/Drupal/01live-166/ap-images/2020/02/1252e824b0d9d7fac921068b8a128ff4.jpg?imwidth=800The high-pitched whine of a mosquito is annoying, but scientists have developed an app that uses that sound to detect dangerous mosquitoes. Mosquitoes kill hundreds of thousands of people each year by spreading microbes that cause diseases such as malaria,
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https://liveandletsfly.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Amani-al-Khatahtbeh-738x355.jpg There are still many questions surrounding the ejection and arrest of a Muslim woman onboard an American Airlines flight, but one fact has emerged: she was harassing the “white man” (as she called him) in first class. At the
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LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s Congress chose a new leader Monday expected to become the nation’s third president in the span of a week, a hopeful sign that the political crisis is on the verge of resolution. Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly
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The departure from Downing Street of two of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s key aides, combined with the projected U.S. election outcome, is making it more likely that Britain will conclude a post-Brexit trade deal with the European Union, some
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https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ethiopia_militias001.jpg?w=281Two weeks ago, Americans and millions around the globe were glued to their televisions as votes were tallied in Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, and North Carolina. But as the world was consumed with elections in the United States, a
https://im-media.voltron.voanews.com/Drupal/01live-166/2020–11/2020–10–20T161707Z_1759028425_RC2GMJ941WPN_RTRMADP_3_USA-BRAZIL.JPG?imwidth=800WASHINGTON — A top adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump appeared to admit Monday there is little chance the president will be declared the winner in this month’s presidential election, even though he and other key aides are still hoping
Jair Bolsonaro – already smarting from Donald Trump’s defeat – has suffered a further setback after candidates he had championed performed dismally in municipal elections. Sunday’s vote provided the first electoral opportunity to gauge the health of the Brazilian president’s anti-establishment
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https://im-media.voltron.voanews.com/Drupal/01live-166/2020–11/2020–11–12T134304Z_373206317_RC2P1K9HCG5L_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-GERMANY-CUREVAC.JPG?imwidth=800 The European Commission, the European Union’s administrative branch, announced Monday a deal with to purchase 405 billion doses of a potential coronavirus vaccine from German bio-tech company CureVac. The announcement comes just days after EU officials announced a similar
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