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• Brazil seeks pro-Bolsonaro rioters who fled to Argentina

  13-06-2024 21:14
  
  Country asks Argentina to identify rioters’ whereabouts and status before deciding to request extraditionsBrazil has asked Argentina for information about dozens of supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro seeking refuge in the neighboring country to avoid legal consequences for rioting in Brasília last year as part of an alleged coup attempt.Brazilian police officials said the request was a precursor to possible extradition requests. Continue reading...
  
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• Europol smashes Balkan cartel shipping drugs from South America

  13-06-2024 18:53
  
  Eight tonnes of cocaine seized and 40 people arrested after four-year investigation led by Spain’s Guardia Civil• How big is Europe’s cocaine problem – and what is the human cost?Forty people have been arrested and eight tonnes of cocaine seized as the result of a four-year international police operation targeting a criminal network that trafficked large quantities of the drug from South America to Europe via West Africa and the Canary islands.The long-running investigatio
  
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• Brazil’s devastating floods hit its ‘Black population on the periphery’ the hardest

  13-06-2024 12:00
  
  Porto Alegre’s poorest neighborhoods, often closest to rivers and with the worst infrastructure, bore brunt of crisisIt had been raining for nearly a week when the floodwaters first reached Marcelo Moreira Ferreira’s home in Porto Alegre, the capital of Brazil’s southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul.His wife and their four children left to seek shelter with relatives, but Ferreira, 51, wanted to stay: his father had built the modest one-story structure and he had lived there hi
  
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• Brazil’s devastating floods hit ‘Black population on the periphery’ hardest

  13-06-2024 12:00
  
  Porto Alegre’s poorest neighborhoods, often closest to rivers and with the worst infrastructure, bore brunt of crisisIt had been raining for nearly a week when the floodwaters first reached Marcelo Moreira Ferreira’s home in Porto Alegre, the capital of Brazil’s southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul.His wife and their four children left to seek shelter with relatives, but Ferreira, 51, wanted to stay: his father had built the modest one-storey structure and he had lived there h
  
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