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Newspaper director convicted of money laundering in Nicaragua

He claims he is being targeted solely for being related to the Chamorro siblings, who were sentenced earlier this week

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Ecuadorian President honors exiled journalist for defending press freedom 

Palacio was a prominent journalist in Ecuador until a feud with former President Rafael Correa forced him into exile for more than 10 years

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Nicaraguan ambassador to OAS condemns Ortega's 'dictatorship'

McFields said he was speaking on behalf “of the 177 political prisoners and the more than 350 people who have lost their lives”

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Taliban closes girls' schools hours after reopening

"We are wearing Hijab. We do not know what kind of Hijab they are talking about," one student said

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In Russia, Putin critic Alexei Navalny found guilty of fraud, faces 13 years in prison

The opposition leader is already serving a two-and-a-half year sentence

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U.S. officially declares genocide in Myanmar

The announcement on Monday is the eighth time in the history of the U.S. that the country has determined that a genocide has occurred

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Charges against 5 for plots against Chinese dissidents in U.S.

Federal prosecutors have charged five people for acting as agents of the Chinese government to target, harass and spy on Chinese nationals with “pro-democracy” views living in the U.S. The Department of Justice say the five men are connected to three separate plots against Chinese people living in the U.S. who have expressed opposition to the Chinese Communist Party.

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Over 52,000 unidentified bodies in mass graves in Mexico

There are at least 63,428 mass graves registered in Mexico, in which 92,658 bodies have been buried

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Drone captures killing of Ukrainian civilian by Russian soldiers

Drone footage appears to show the moment Russian troops shoot and kill a civilian as he got out of his car and held up his hands on a Ukrainian highway

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Tiananmen Square protester granted asylum in U.S. stabbed to death

A Tiananmen Square protestor turned immigration lawyer was killed in his New York City office on Monday by a client upset he would not take her case. Jinjin (Jim) Li, 66, was jailed for two years in 1989 by the Chinese government for participating in the 1989 student democracy movement at Tiananmen Square that infamously ended in a bloody massacre of protesters.