Governors from the mineral-rich provinces of Catamarca, Jujuy, Salta, Mendoza and San Juan had expressed their support for the bill, stating that the 2010 Glacier law hindered the goal of “promoting a sustainable economic development of the provinces and the Nation without compromising future generations”. BBC News
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The 42-year-old gold miner was standing in waist-high water when rescuers found him in a flooded tunnel. BBC News
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Lynette Hooker fell overboard from a small boat and was swept out to sea by strong currents, her husband told authorities. BBC News
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Érick Valencia Salazar was among a group of 29 alleged drug lords extradited to the US from Mexico. BBC News
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Adriana Rivas moved from Chile to Australia in the 1970s, working there as a nanny and cleaner. BBC News
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It is the latest sign of warming relations between the US and Venezuela after Nicolás Maduro was seized in a commando raid. BBC News
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Lawmakers in the Brazilian Congress on Tuesday viewed the law change as a reflection on the importance people place on their pets. BBC News
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The project to build a zipline linking the popular Rio tourist spot to Morro da Urca proved controversial. BBC News
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The attack happened in the Artibonite region, where members of the Gran Grif gang have targeted locals in the past. BBC News
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The tanker has reached Cuban waters just hours after Donald Trump said he had “no problem” with it arriving. BBC News
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Ex-Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were in a New York court on 26 March for their second appearance. The hearing focused on whether they should be allowed to use Venezuelan government money to fund their defence. Maduro and Flores’s attorneys asked the judge to dismiss the …
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In a 25-page indictment, US prosecutors laid out a case that began in 1999, when Maduro was first elected to public office, alleging Maduro, Flores, his son Nicolás Ernesto Maduro Guerra, and three others participated in a “relentless campaign of cocaine trafficking”. BBC News
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Ione Wells travels to Sucre, where a lack of investment has hampered locals’ prospects. BBC News
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More than 10 million people in Cuba have had power cut to their homes and businesses after the country’s national electrical grid collapsed. The Caribbean island has been hit with several blackouts this month, as a result of a US fuel blockade that cuts off the foreign oil imports needed …
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Another total failure of its power grid underlines Cuba’s hardship under a US-imposed fuel blockade. BBC News
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The baby boy was rescued by police unharmed and reunited with his mother shortly after the ordeal. BBC News
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The reshuffle follows Delcy Rodríguez’s appointment of a new defence minister, a move human rights groups described as a “recycling of impunity”. BBC News
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Royer Perez-Jimenez died amid a surge of migrant deaths under Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. BBC News
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News of the invitation emerges after the monarch acknowledged “a lot of abuse” during the Spanish conquest of Mexico. BBC News
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