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A 10-year-old in Mexico shot and killed another 11-year-old because he beat him at video games, several Mexican media reported Wednesday. The attacker shot the victim with a pistol that he picked up at the family home in a miserable area of the state of Veracruz (southeast). The two children …

A group of scientists discovered a new species of lizard in a nature reserve in Cusco, in southeastern Peru, the national agency in charge of protected natural areas said on Monday. “Otishi National Park reveals a new species of lizard to science,” the institution said in a statement. This lizard …

A 41-year-old woman has cut off her husband’s penis and stabbed him to death in their flat in the Altos de San Lorenzo area of Argentina. “The deceased was found with the knife embedded in his eye, wounds all over his body, including his chest and his genitals mutilated,” according …

Far-right Brazilian former president Jair Bolsonaro left Brazil for Florida two days before Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s inauguration on January 1 and stayed at the home of a former Brazilian MMA fighter. He was admitted to hospital last Sunday for an intestinal “adhesion” and was released on Tuesday evening. …

Democratic lawmakers in the US called on Thursday for President Joe Biden to revoke the visa of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who is in Florida, refusing to allow the United States to serve as a refuge for the former leader. “We must not allow Mr. Bolsonaro or any other …

“A small number” of confidential documents dating from Joe Biden’s vice-presidency days were found in his private residence in Wilmington, the White House said Thursday. Following the discovery of a dozen such documents in a former office of the US president, his lawyers reviewed all his files and found “a …

The United States and Japan on Wednesday flaunted their “strategic alignment” on defense that extends into space amid growing concerns over China and tensions over Taiwan and North Korea. “We agree that China poses the most important strategic challenge to the two countries,” said the head of the American diplomacy, …

The US House of Representatives, recently controlled by Republicans, adopted two anti-abortion texts on Wednesday, with largely symbolic significance. This is a way for the Conservatives to satisfy their base, after exposing their divisions last week in a difficult vote for their “speaker”. The first resolution, supported Wednesday by all …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, whose country has been facing Russian invasion for nearly a year, delivered an optimistic message to the Golden Globes audience, saying the world will not experience a third war. The president appeared on the giant screen of the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles where the award …

Is rapper Young Thug a member of a gang, is his music label a front for criminal activity, and are his song lyrics evidence that can be used against him? The trial of this hip-hop figure tried with 13 other people began Monday in Atlanta with a very long jury …