794-pound emerald found in Brazil
BRASILIA – Miners have found a 4.3-foot (1.3-meter) tall emerald weighing more than 790 pounds in Brazil’s northeastern state of Bahia. The precious stone was found about 20 days ago by miners of the Bahia […]
BRASILIA – Miners have found a 4.3-foot (1.3-meter) tall emerald weighing more than 790 pounds in Brazil’s northeastern state of Bahia. The precious stone was found about 20 days ago by miners of the Bahia […]
LIMA – Chilean and Argentinean entrepreneurs have expressed great interest in including Huaral-styled Roasted Pork in their food festivals. “We have received invitations from Chile and Argentina,” Huaral’s Hotels, Restaurants and Related Establishments Association (AHORA-Huaral) […]
LA PAZ – Gabriela Zapata, the former girlfriend of Bolivian President Evo Morales, has been sentenced to ten years in jail on corruption charges. Zapata, a former manager at the Chinese engineering group CAMC, was […]
CARACAS – About 100 people, who had been participating in anti-Maduro protests, surrounded a man, doused him in gasoline and set him alight in Plaza Altamira in east Caracas at the weekend, witnesses said. Venezuelan […]
MEXICO CITY – A bus carrying a church group plunged into a deep ravine in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas Sunday, killing at least 17 people and injuring 31, authorities said. The bus fell […]
LIMA – Preparations for the first Peru-Chile Binational Cabinet meeting – set to take place in Urubamba city (Cusco region) on 7 July 2017 – have begun with the appointment of responsible officers. According to […]
LIMA – Wolfgang Sadik, a Greenpeace activist who seriously damaged Nazca Lines in 2014, has been given a three year and four month suspended prison sentence during a hearing in Peru’s southern Ica region. As […]
GUATEMALA CITY – Thousands of patients with advanced illnesses in Guatemala suffer unnecessarily from severe pain because they cannot get appropriate pain medications, Human Rights Watch said in a latest report. The 62-page report, “‘Punishing […]
BEUNOS AIRES – A 12-year-old boy has accidentally killed a girl of the same age while filming with a shotgun on Facebook Live in Argentina. Local reports say the girl was shot in the face […]
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