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  • Mexico launches $7.4bn Tren Maya railway venture

    A Mayan ceremony to launch the Tren Maya project in Palengue, Mexico. Photo: 16 December 2018 Symbol copyright AFP/Getty Photographs Image caption A Standard Mayan ceremony was held to release the four-12 months venture

    Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has introduced the Maya Educate – an formidable project to build a railway thru 5 south-jap states.

    At an indigenous ceremony near the traditional Mayan ruins of Palenque, he stated this may help create loads of thousands of jobs.

    The 1,525km (950-mile) railway will link Palenque and the tourist hotel of Cancún on the Caribbean coast.

    But fighters warn it might damage the region’s necessary biosphere.

    A third of the deliberate direction passes via pristine jungle, and the owners of the land, the Maya other people, say they have got now not been consulted.

  • Brazil capturing: Five useless as gunman opens hearth in cathedral

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    A gunman entered a Catholic cathedral near Brazil’s most populous town, São Paulo, killing 5 people, police say.

    A Mass was once being held while the attacker, carrying weapons, entered the Metropolitan Cathedral within the city of Campinas and opened fire.

    The army police confirmed to the BBC that the loss of life toll had risen from four to 5. Four aged other people had been additionally significantly wounded.

    The attacker killed himself in the church. His purpose isn’t yet recognized.

    “It was frightful,” witness Alexandre Moraes informed Brazil’s GloboNews channel. “He entered and shot randomly at other people. They have been all praying.”

    Campinas is an business city a few 100km (SIXTY TWO miles) north-west of Sao Paulo.

  • G20 Argentina: Protesters condemn ‘demonstration of power’

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  • Ecuador tightens access rules for Venezuelan migrants

    Venezuelan migrants stand in line to register their exit from Colombia before entering Ecuador, at the Rumichaca International Bridge in Colombia August 17, 2018 Image copyright Reuters Symbol caption Many Venezuelans have made a long overland adventure to the Ecuador border, but at the moment are caught

    Ecuador has introduced in new regulations to prevent Venezuelan migrants getting into the country with no passport, leaving many stranded in neighbouring Colombia.

    Thousands of Venezuelans fleeing their us of a’s financial and political drawback were crossing into Ecuador from Colombia using simplest identity cards.

    Most are heading south to join members of the family in Peru and Chile.

    Colombia has protested against the transfer, saying vulnerable folks will probably be trapped on its aspect of the border.

    In a separate incident, residents of a Brazilian town attacked a Venezuelan migrant camp on Saturday and drove the occupants back across the border.

    Early on Saturday, about 300 Venezuelans have been coated up on the Rumichaca border crossing out of doors the Colombian city of Ipiales, and lots of mentioned they had no passports to gain entry to Ecuador.

    Gabriel Malavolta, a 50-12 months-antique mechanic, left Venezuela 3 days in the past aiming to make the overland route to Lima, Peru, through Ecuador.

    He has a passport however his fiancee, Yenny, had only an ID card.

    “i do not understand what we are going to do, but we won’t go back. i am not sending my fiancee to go back and go hungry,” he advised Reuters news company at a Crimson Go tent.

    “You’ve Gotten no thought what it’s like in Venezuela. Complete families devour from the trash.”

    Another migrant, Regulo Guaita, said: “That was once actually a wonder. We found out today. it is very unhappy because there are many, many Venezuelans leaving and (with this degree) they won’t allow them to go away. i don’t recognise what they are going to do now.”

    Image copyright Reuters Symbol caption There are lengthy queues of Venezuelans migrants at the border crossing close to Ipiales

    With the drift of Venezuelan migrants inflicting tensions around the area, Peru’s govt announced immigration measures similar to Ecuador’s on Friday. Passport necessities for Venezuelans will begin on 25 August.

    In February, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos introduced a tightening of border controls, resulting in hundreds of Venezuelans speeding to crossing points.

    Brazil, which neighbours Venezuela, has additionally expressed considerations and briefly closed the border earlier this month. Violence has flared in the border state of Roraima the place heaps of Venezuelans reside in precarious accommodation.

    Symbol copyright EPA Image caption Brazilian police attempted to revive keep an eye on after citizens near Pacaraima attacked Venezuelan migrant camps

    in the border the city of Pacaraima on Saturday, a couple of migrant encampments had been attacked by way of offended residents.

    The attacks followed a protest within the the town after a local restaurant proprietor was allegedly robbed and crushed up via Venezuelans.

    consistent with studies, masses of Venezuelans fled back across the border and residents set hearth to the assets they’d left behind.

    On the Venezuelan aspect of the border, meanwhile, there were stories that Brazilian cars have been attacked.

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    Media captionThe seek for food in Venezuela

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  • Italy road crash close to Foggia kills 12 African farm labourers

    African migrants living in poverty in Calabria, 24 Jan 17 Image copyright Getty Pictures Image caption Many Africans like these reside in desperate poverty in southern Italy

    Twelve African farm labourers have died in a head-on collision between a van and a lorry close to Lesina in the Foggia area of southern Italy.

    The labourers were getting back from the fields, packed into a van which had Bulgarian number plates.

    3 folks have been injured within the crash, including the lorry driving force.

    Four migrant farm employees died in the same crash in the same area on Saturday. Many seasonal staff employed by gangs in Italy get very meagre pay.

    After Saturday’s crash a union of farm labourers announced a strike for Wednesday, with a “red hat” march to Foggia – a mark of solidarity with the 4 who died. The red hats symbolise the hats worn by tomato pickers in the fields round Foggia.

    Their pay is as low as one euro for choosing 100kg (221lb) of tomatoes.

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    Stipulations are very precarious for lots of African migrants in Italy, where the populist government is attempting to prevent people-smuggling gangs sending extra boatloads from Libya.

    The boats are perilously overcrowded and more than 1,500 other folks have drowned crossing the Mediterranean this yr, the UN refugee company says.

    More than 650,000 migrants – most commonly from sub-Saharan Africa – have come ashore in Italy considering that 2014, stretching instruments in regions already struggling with prime unemployment.

  • Bologna crash: Tanker truck fireball kills and injures dozens

    Black smoke rises in the sky after a tanker explodes on the motorway close to the airport in Bologna (picture released by Vigili del Fuoco, the Italian fire department) Image copyright AFP Symbol caption Police closed off the toll road the place the crash came about

    A truck has exploded in an enormous fireball on a dual carriageway close to Bologna, northern Italy, following a site visitors coincidence.

    A lorry wearing automobiles collided on a bridge with every other stuffed with flammable materials, Italian media say.

    The bridge partially collapsed and fireplace spread to a automotive park under, the place a couple of more automobiles exploded at about 14:00 (12:00 GMT).

    Two other people were killed and a minimum of 60 injured, Italian outlet Los Angeles Stampa stories.

    The accident happened at the Casalecchio link that connects the A1 to the A14. Police mentioned they had closed off the toll road in Borgo Panigale, on Bologna’s fringes.

    The home windows of many homes within the area are mentioned to have burst.

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  • Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega’s brother calls on him to finish violence

    Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega Symbol copyright Getty Photographs Image caption President Daniel Ortega is stressed to end violent unrest within the us of a

    Humberto Ortega, the ex-head of Nicaragua’s military, has referred to as on his brother President Daniel Ortega to forestall the pro-govt paramilitaries that are blamed for months of deadly unrest.

    The govt should act responsibly to “end the presence of these armed folks”, stated Humberto Ortega in a TELEVISION interview with CNN En Español.

    President Ortega has defied calls to face down and blamed the competition.

    More than THREE HUNDRED other people have died right through three months of protest within the united states of america.

    President Ortega, 72, gave an extraordinary interview to US information channel Fox earlier this week to deal with the hindrance. He mentioned the paramilitaries had been funded through opposition MPs and drug cartels, however he supplied no proof of the alleged links.

    Symbol copyright AFP Symbol caption A protester on Friday marking ONE HUNDRED days for the reason that demonstrations began

    Human rights activists say that paramilitary groups unswerving to the federal government, known locally as “grupos de choque” (shock forces), are at the back of so much of the violence against demonstrators and regularly use live ammunition.

    Amnesty International says the mobs “appear to be performing with the acquiescence of the state”.

    Downward spiral: Nicaragua’s worsening trouble

    The government says protesters are terrorists and accuses them of plotting a coup d’etat in opposition to President Ortega, who was once re-elected to a third consecutive term in workplace in 2016.

    Some law enforcement officials have additionally been killed in the clashes.

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    The Ortega brothers

    Daniel and Humberto Ortega had been key players in the Sandinista revolution within the 1970s.

    After the crowd succeeded of their goal to bring down the presidential dynasty, Daniel become president and Humberto used to be minister of defence.

    Humberto Ortega continued in the position via his brother’s first presidency and the guideline of his successor, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro.

    He retired in 1995 and has been crucial of his brother because he again to power in 2007.

    He has mentioned he has a “very respectful and fraternal” relationship with the president, however that they do not have direct communique, in step with AFP news agency.

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  • Cuba airplane crash: Leasing corporate blames Mexican workforce

    Police and military personnel work among the wreckage of the Boeing-737 plane that crashed shortly after taking off from the Jose Marti airport in Havana, Cuba, 18 May 2018 Image copyright EPA Symbol caption The aircraft came down shortly after take-off from Havana

    A plane crash in Cuba which killed 112 folks was once resulting from “human blunders”, the Mexican charter company which owns the airplane says.

    Damojh Airways mentioned a look at of the data recorders showed the Boeing 737 had taken off too steeply.

    Mexican pilots’ union ASPA said Damojh’s statement, which was launched earlier than the reputable research has concluded, used to be “irresponsible”.

    The crash was once one of the worst to happen within the Caribbean for many years.

    The Boeing 737 and its Mexican workforce had been leased from Damojh by Cuban state airline Cubana whilst it got here down 20km (12 miles) south of the Cuban capital, Havana.

    Image copyright Reuters Image caption The crash used to be considered one of the deadliest in Cuba in three decades

    A spokesman for the Mexican pilots’ union mentioned Damojh was “just seeking to protect their interests” through blaming the crew ahead of the investigation were concluded.

    Following the coincidence on 18 May, two former pilots for the corporate got here forward to allege that Damojh had a negative upkeep file.

    Damojh company ‘had safety complaints’

    Mexico’s civil aviation authority suspended the company’s operations within the wake of the accident. It mentioned the suspension might remain in position pending the result of the research.

    Such A Lot of the sufferers had been Cuban, including 10 evangelical pastors and their spouses. Of the 113 people on board, ONE HUNDRED TEN died on impact. Of the 3 preliminary survivors, later died in hospital.

    Miraculous plane crash survivors

    Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has arrange a special commission to research the crash.

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  • Mike Pence is a ‘poisonous viper’, Venezuela’s Maduro says

    Maduro Symbol copyright EPA Symbol caption Mr Maduro have been accused via Mr Pence of operating a dictatorship

    Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has known as Mike Pence a “poisonous viper” after the united states vice-president met Venezuelan migrants in Brazil.

    Mr Maduro mentioned Mr Pence, who had accused him of operating a “devastating dictatorship”, made predictable statements every time he spoke.

    He additionally accused the ecu of kneeling to the u.s. by means of extending sanctions in opposition to Caracas.

    Tens of lots of Venezuelans have fled the country’s financial problem.

    The Venezuelans who’ve had enough Venezuela challenge: How did we get here? Venezuela’s leader Nicolás Maduro divides opinion

    Last year rankings of people have been killed in clashes right through protests in opposition to hyperinflation and meals shortages.

    Image copyright EPA Symbol caption Mr Pence visited a shelter for Venezuelans in the Brazilian town of Manaus

    In Advance this week the european imposed sanctions on ELEVEN Venezuelan officers following elections in May which the european said were neither loose nor fair.

    Among the ones sanctioned was once newly nominated Vice-President Delcy Rodríguez.

    The polls, which the competition boycotted, saw Mr Maduro elected to a 2nd six-year term in office.

    Mr Maduro accuses the us of waging an “economic conflict” to try to overthrow his government and clutch the country’s oil wealth.

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