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(BBC) Mexican officials have ordered Dell Computers to honour the sale of laptops that had been mistakenly advertised online for just 679 pesos (£27; $33). The computers normally sell for up to 50,000 pesos (£1,990; $2,500). But because of an apparent software malfunction, only the shipping costs – 679 pesos – were included in an […]
(BBC) Two nephews of Venezuela’s first lady have pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking charges at a court in New York. Efrain Campo Flores and Francisco Flores de Freitas were arrested by undercover American agents in Haiti in November and taken to the US. They denied charges of conspiring to smuggle “five (11lb) or more […]
The mosquito-borne Zika virus will no longer be treated as an international medical emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared. By lifting its nine-month-old declaration, the UN’s health agency is acknowledging that Zika is here to stay. The infection has been linked to severe birth defects in almost 30 countries. These include microcephaly, where […]
(BBC) Donald Trump will become the 45th US president after a stunning victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton. The Republican nominee’s projected victory came down to a handful of key swing states, despite months of polling that favoured Mrs Clinton. The battlegrounds of Florida, Ohio and North Carolina cleared the way for his Brexit-style upset. Global […]
Floods triggered by heavy rains have killed at least 10 people in northern Haiti, officials say. A mother and her three children were killed when their home collapsed in the northern city of Cap-Haitian. Officials said 300mm (almost one foot) of rain had fallen in just 48 hours. The flooding comes just over a month […]
(BBC) The US says it is “deeply concerned” about the electoral process in Nicaragua a day after Daniel Ortega, the left-wing leader, won a third consecutive presidential term. A State Department spokesman said the election process was flawed and could not be seen as free and fair. He said the Ortega government had side-lined […]
El Salvador’s former President Elias Antonio Saca has been arrested over accusations of embezzling millions of dollars of public funds. Prosecutors say six former officials in his government were also held. Mr Saca, 50, has not publicly commented on the accusations. He held office from 2004 to 2009. He is one of three former presidents […]
(BBC) A Brazilian evangelical pastor, Marcelo Crivella, has been elected mayor of Rio de Janeiro in the second round of municipal elections. He won easily, beating left-wing candidate Marcelo Freixo by a margin of nearly 20 percentage points. Mr Crivella has promised to bring law and order and basic sanitation to Rio’s poorer neighbourhoods. His […]
(BBC) The Venezuelan government and opposition parties are meeting for the first time this year to try to resolve the country’s deep political crisis. President Nicolas Maduro is attending the talks, which are being supervised by a Vatican envoy and other mediators. The opposition is demanding a referendum be allowed to take place on whether […]
(BBC) A landslide on a major highway in Colombia has killed at least six people, officials said. On Wednesday, tonnes of earth engulfed the main highway leading north from Colombia’s second-largest city, Medellin. The mud from the mountainside covered an area the size of two football fields and buried two cars, a lorry and two […]
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