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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Biden hold a joint news conference in the White House Thursday.

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  • Politics

Biden Says The U.S. Would Offer Aid To Cuba If He Had Assurances About The Regime

Cuba has seen recent demonstrations due to food shortages and high prices amid the pandemic.

July 15, 2021
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  • NPR Staff
Cuban Americans demonstrate outside the White House on Monday in support of protests taking place in Cuba.

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  • Politics

How Cuba Protests Reveal Biden's Political Challenges In South Florida

Widespread protests across Cuba have revealed political challenges President Biden faces as he seeks to support the demonstrations without hurting their cause — or his own political interest.

July 14, 2021
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez
Cubalex, a U.S.-based organization of human rights lawyers, estimates about 148 anti-government protesters have been arrested, detained or disappeared since Sunday.

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  • Latin America

A Popular YouTuber Is Detained By Cuban Police On Live TV In A Roundup Of Critics

"I hold the government responsible for anything that may happen to me," Dina Stars said before abruptly ending an interview. Human rights groups say some 148 people have been detained since Sunday.

July 14, 2021
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
A man waves a Cuban flag during a demonstration against Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel's government Sunday in Havana as large numbers take part in rare protests against the communist regime.

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  • Latin America

The Hip-Hop Song That's Driving Cuba's Unprecedented Protests

The song Patria y Vida, or homeland and life, is a spin on the communist regime's decades-old slogan in Cuba of "patria o muerte" — homeland or death.

July 13, 2021
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
Plainclothes police detain an anti-government protester during a protest in Havana, Cuba, on Sunday. Hundreds of demonstrators went out to the streets in several cities in Cuba to protest against ongoing food shortages and high prices of foodstuffs.

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  • Latin America

Thousands In Cuba Demonstrate In One Of The Biggest Anti-Government Protests

Thousands of demonstrators went out to the streets in several cities in Cuba to protest against ongoing food shortages and high prices of foodstuffs, amid the coronavirus crisis.

July 12, 2021
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  • The Associated Press
We asked NPR readers to share the items they can't live without in the pandemic. From left to right: Kenji Hall with his traditional Japanese pot, Trish Kandik with her foster dog Penelope and Lauren Morton with a takeout container of Indian food.

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  • Photography

PHOTOS: What Item Is Giving You Joy In A Pandemic? Your Beautiful And Quirky Answers

We asked NPR readers to share photos of the objects they can't live without during the pandemic. Their responses are funny, surprising — and some might make you tear up.

July 11, 2021
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  • Suzette Lohmeyer
Colombian Armed Forces Commander Gen. Luis Fernando Navarro (center), National Police Director Gen. Jorge Luis Vargas (right), and Army Commander Gen. Eduardo Zapateriro give a press conference regarding the alleged participation of former Colombian soldiers in the assassination of Haiti's President Jovenel Moïse, in Bogotá on Friday.

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  • Latin America

Ex-Colombian Soldiers' Arrests Add To The Mystery Around The Haiti Assassination

More than a dozen former Colombian soldiers are detained in connection with the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. Some officials and analysts say the Colombians are being used as scapegoats.

July 10, 2021
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  • John Otis
GPB News NPR

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  • Sports

Brazil And Argentina Prepare For Copa América Final Showdown

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Mauricio Noriega ahead of the Copa América final in which Argentina and Brazil will face off for the third time in the tournament's history.

July 09, 2021
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  • Mary Louise Kelly,
  • Justine Kenin,
  • and 1 more
Roberto David Castillo is escorted by penitentiary police to hear the verdict in his trial connected to accusations that he is one of the intellectual authors responsible for the murder of environmentalist and Indigenous rights activist Berta Caceres, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, July 5, 2021.

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  • Latin America

Alleged Mastermind Convicted In The Killing Of Environmental Activist Berta Cáceres

A court in Honduras on Monday found Roberto David Castillo Mejía guilty of participating in the 2016 killing of Cáceres, a prize-winning environmental and Indigenous rights defender.

July 05, 2021
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  • The Associated Press
Health workers arrive in a tuk-tuk to administer doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to elderly citizens in their homes in Lima, Peru, in April.

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  • Global Health

It's A Tricky Balancing Act For Countries Awaiting Vaccine Doses

They have to figure out how to distribute the vaccines — and keep their citizens interested in getting their jab — without knowing when supplies will arrive.

July 05, 2021
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  • Will Stone
Covishield is the brand name used for the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine manufactured in India's Serum Institute, administered to millions of people, mostly in low- and middle-income countries. It's not on the list of approved vaccines for the European Union — although the AstraZeneca version made in the United Kingdom and at European sites is.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: I'm Nigerian. I'm Vaccinated. Europe Won't Let Me In

Europe lists four approved vaccines for travelers. There's an omission that makes Nigerian physician Ifeanyi Nsofor feel invisible — and disappointed.

June 30, 2021
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By:
  • Ifeanyi Nsofor
Moises Soffer, a volunteer member of Cadena International's search-and-rescue team working at the site of the condo building collapse, holds a trained search dog named Oreo in Surfside, Fla., on Sunday.

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  • National

Rescue Teams Hold Out Hope Of Finding Survivors In Florida Condo Collapse

It's been nearly a week since part of the building in Surfside, Fla., collapsed. "We still remain hopeful because that's who we are," says Leon Roy Hausmann, a representative of one rescue group.

June 30, 2021
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By:
  • Chad Campbell and
  • Avie Schneider
Demonstrators hold signs that read in Portuguese: "Impeachment now! Bolsonaro in prison" during a protest against Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Saturday.

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  • Latin America

As Brazil Tops 500,000 COVID-19 Deaths, Protesters Blame President

Anti-government protesters took to the streets nationwide as Brazil's death toll reached a grim benchmark — a tragedy many critics attribute to President Jair Bolsonaro's handling of the pandemic.

June 19, 2021
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  • The Associated Press
GPB News NPR

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  • Latin America

Power Outage In Puerto Rico Hits 337K Customers Amid Growing Outrage

The sudden power failure late Wednesday comes just days after another massive outage hit the U.S. territory.

June 17, 2021
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  • The Associated Press
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro holds up a box of chloroquine, an antimalarial medicine that his administration endorsed as part of an "early treatment" strategy for COVID-19. There is no evidence the drug can prevent the coronavirus or reduce the severity of symptoms.

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  • Global Health

Brazil's Main COVID Strategy Is A Cocktail Of Unproven Drugs

In one of the hardest hit countries in the world, the main strategy is a so-called early treatment combo of unproven medications — endorsed by President Jair Bolsonaro.

June 15, 2021
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  • Kiratiana Freelon and
  • Shanna Hanbury
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