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Argentina coast guard sinks Chinese boat

Argentinian coast guard sinks Chinese fishing boat

Argentinian forces opened fire on and sank a Chinese boat illegally fishing in the South Atlantic after it attempted to ram a coast guard vessel, officials said Tuesday.

Brazil protests

Brazilians are outraged after release of taped call between Lula and Rousseff

Argentina trial for dirty war baby theft

The US will declassify sensitive records about Argentina’s US-backed dictatorship

Global Politics
refugee protest

These are the key points of the controversial EU-Turkey deal on refugees

Brussels attacks

Brussels attacks: Over 20 killed in multiple blasts at airport and metro

Dilma Rousseff and Michel Temer

The Brazilian president faces impeachment and just lost her biggest coalition partner

Politics

Dilma Rousseff’s government is “finished,” one opposition leader said.

Putin

Kremlin: Nothing to see here after Panama Papers link Putin cronies to offshore deals

The Kremlin spokesman, who himself figures in the files, said there was ‘nothing new or concrete’ about the Russian leader in the leaks, but blamed them on rampant ‘Putinophobia.’

A school in Bern, Switzerland, on Oct. 18, 2015.

Muslim students at a Swiss school don’t have to shake hands with female teachers

Lifestyle

Students argued that Islam does not permit physical contact with a person of the opposite sex, with the exception of certain immediate family members.