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Men believed to be missing surfers died from gunshots, Mexican officials say

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 20:35

Families of men presumed to be two Australian and American who went missing in Baja California arrive in Tijuana to identify bodies

The bodies believed to be those of the two Australians and an American who went missing in the Pacific coast state of Baja California showed the three men were killed with gunshots to the head, Mexican authorities said on Sunday.

María Elena Andrade Ramírez, the state’s attorney general, said the families of the missing men had arrived in Tijuana to verbally identify the bodies. Authorities expect to have official confirmation shortly.

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Flooding death toll in south Brazil rises to 66 as over 100 people remain missing

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 16:11

Officials in Rio Grande do Sul state say more than 80,000 have been displaced by record water levels

Sixty-six people are now known to have died in the flooding in Brazil’s southern Rio Grande do Sul state, while more than 100 people remain missing, local authorities said on Sunday.

The state’s civil defence authority said 101 people were unaccounted for and more than 80,000 had been displaced after record-breaking floods swept across the state, which borders Uruguay and Argentina.

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Free Madonna concert draws crowd of 1.6m to Brazil’s Copacabana beach

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 08:33

Area around Rio de Janeiro beach filled for several blocks as singer closes her Celebration world tour

More than a million people have thronged Brazil’s Copacabana beach for a free Madonna concert, braving the heat to see the end of her Celebration world tour.

The sand and oceanfront boulevard around Rio de Janeiro’s famed beach were filled for several blocks on Saturday night by a crowd the city estimated at 1.6 million.

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Death toll from rains in southern Brazil rises to 57

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 17:42

Hundreds of cities across Rio Grande so Sul hit by floods with 32,000 people displaced and infrastructure destroyed

The death toll from rains in Brazil’s southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul rose to 57, local authorities said on Saturday afternoon, while dozens still have not been accounted for.

The state’s civil defence authority said 67 people were still missing and more than 32,000 had been displaced as storms affected nearly two-thirds of the 497 cities in the state.

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Three bodies reportedly found in northern Mexico where Perth brothers went missing

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 2 days ago - 22:01

Siblings Callum and Jake Robinson and US citizen Carter Rhoad were travelling on a surfing holiday when they were reported missing

Three bodies have reportedly been found in an area of northern Mexico where two Australian brothers and an American friend are missing.

Reuters cited two sources with knowledge of the investigation as saying Mexican authorities had found three bodies in Baja Peninsula. The bodies were reportedly found near a cliff, but have not yet been formally identified.

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Brazil: 37 killed and dozens missing in worst floods in 80 years

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 2 days ago - 18:28

More than 23,000 people forced to leave homes after heavy rains in southern Rio Grande do Sul prompt record-breaking floods

Heavy rains in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul have killed 37 people, with another 74 still missing, as record-breaking floods devastated cities and forced thousands to leave their homes.

It was the fourth such environmental disaster in a year, following floods in July, September and November that killed 75 people in total.

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Canadian police detain alleged assassins of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 2 days ago - 17:04

Prime minister said there were ‘credible allegations’ that India was behind the killing, leading to chilled relations between countries

Canadian police have detained members of an alleged hit team for their role in the assassination of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar , the first arrests in a high-profile killing which officials believe was masterminded by India.

The arrest, first reported by CBC News, comes nearly a year after the prominent activist was killed in the parking lot of his gurdwara in the city of Surrey, British Columbia.

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Panama to elect new president against backdrop of social unrest and drought

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 2 days ago - 14:03

Country to vote on Sunday after supreme court allows leading presidential contender to remain in the race

Panama’s supreme court has rejected a move to disqualify the candidacy of the leading presidential contender, José Raúl Mulino, two days before the country’s election on Sunday.

The ruling early on Friday removes an element of uncertainty from the vote, but the country remains racked by social discontent, against a backdrop of mass protests, economic slowdown, drought in the Panama Canal and the closure of one of the world’s largest copper mines.

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‘It’s so frustrating’: two years on and still no justice for Bruno and Dom murders

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 2 days ago - 14:00

Three men await trial in Brazil for the killing of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira, but no date is set and Amazon activists still live in fear of violence

Nearly two years after Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were murdered during a reporting trip in the Brazilian Amazon their families are still waiting for justice and activists fear their deaths will not be the last.

The British journalist and the Brazilian Indigenous expert were ambushed and killed on 5 June 2022 while travelling by boat to the river town of Atalaia do Norte. They had been investigating the criminal assault on Brazil’s second-largest Indigenous territories, the Javari valley , a vast expanse of rainforest that is home to the world’s largest concentration of uncontacted peoples.