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The Iguazú Falls span more than a mile across both countries. A rain-soaked October, which scientists link to the Super El Niño, has sent near-record volumes of water surging over the towering cliffs.
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Our Latin America correspondent, Tom Phillips, heads to Roraima to hear what’s at stake for the rainforest and the communities that live there in the Brazilian presidential runoff on Sunday. Send your comments and questions to tif.questions@theguardian.com…
World news | The Guardian · 12 h ago
North Korea plans to resume anti-Seoul propaganda broadcasts along the heavily armed border with South Korea, leader Kim Jong Un's sister said, reviving a psychological warfare campaign. (Image credit: Ahn Young-joon)
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The national game merely reflects the mood in a divided nation which is going to the polls with very little faith in the power of democracy Look, cards on the table: I don’t know for certain, and nor do you, whether Flávio Bolsonaro – the man widely tipped to…
Sport | The Guardian · 7 h ago
England’s talent from Harrow can become the youngest female international master in chess history Bodhana Sivanandan, 11, who needed just a few rating points to qualify for an open international master title and to break Judit Polgar’s world age record, went…
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After decades of violent displacement and land theft, the country’s quilombola communities are fighting back For most of his 39 years, Josias Dias dos Santos, known as Jota, has endured degrading cycles of displacement as a quilombola , a descendant of Black…
Business | The Guardian · 1 d ago
One person has died after being swept away by waves in Taiwan's Liuqiu island, authorities say.
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The satellite service was still operating at a cap of 161km/hr, crippling key air defences In Vienna this morning, Austria’s foreign ministry has announced it is kicking out another four Russian diplomats over “activities incompatible with their diplomatic…
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Blistering record heat in Europe this summer helped kill more than 50,000 people, with nearly two-thirds of that death toll blamed on human-caused climate change, a new study found. (Image credit: Gregorio Borgia)
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