Trump campaign manager charged over altercation with reporter

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Latest update : 2016-03-30

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, was charged Tuesday with simple battery in connection with an incident earlier this month involving a reporter, according to Florida police.

Rousseff’s woes mount as largest Brazilian party quits coalition

Brazil's largest party announced on Tuesday it is leaving President Dilma Rousseff's governing coalition in a move that cripples her fight against impeachment proceedings in Congress.

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‘More than 230,000’ Columbian children uprooted by war

© Luis Acosta, AFP | Colombian children play with a Colombian national flag in Santiago, on June 13, 2015

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Latest update : 2016-03-21

More than 230,000 Colombian children have been forced to flee their homes since peace talks between the government and rebels began three years ago.

Scores dead after riot, fire at Mexican prison

© Julio Cesar Aguilar, AFP | A relative of an inmate tries to break a chain at the Topo Chico prison in Monterrey, Mexico, on February 11, 2016

Text by FRANCE 24 

Latest update : 2016-02-12

A prison riot in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey has killed fifty-two people and wounded twelve on the eve of Pope Francis’ trip to the region, according to the state governor.

The riot erupted at the Topo Chico prison around midnight, according to Nuevo Leon state public security spokesman Antonio Arguello, who did not shed light on the cause.

Venezuela raises fuel price, devalues currency amid severe economic crisis

© AFP | Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro delivers a speech in Caracas on February 4, 2016.

Text by NEWS WIRES

Latest update : 2016-02-18

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday devalued the currency and raised heavily subsidized fuel prices in an effort to stem a widening economic crisis, though critics of the socialist leader quickly dismissed the moves as insufficient.

The measures are meant to help shore up the OPEC nation’s finances as plummeting oil prices and a collapsing state-led economic model have left the country with a severe recession, triple-digit inflation and chronic product shortages.

US investigates 14 new reports of suspected sexually transmitted Zika virus

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Latest update : 2016-02-24

US health authorities are investigating 14 new cases of Zika virus that may have been transmitted sexually, suggesting a larger role than previously considered for the spread of the mosquito-borne virus.

Several of the cases involve pregnant women, the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention warned Tuesday.

The agency reiterated its call for people to use condoms or practice abstinence when living in or travelling to the more than 20 nations and territories in Latin America and the Caribbean affected by the Zika virus.