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Stories for November 15th 2014
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Saturday, November 15th 2014 - 08:20 UTC
Almost 30% of teenagers (15 to 19) are mothers in Latin America
Nearly 30 % of young women in Latin America are mothers before they reach 20 years and the majority of them are underprivileged, which fosters the reproduction of poverty, hinders women's autonomy and their life projects, and underscores the need for public sex education and reproductive health services.
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Saturday, November 15th 2014 - 08:12 UTC
Brazilian police kill an average of six people per day, says public safety group
Brazilian police killed more than 11,000 people between 2009 and 2013 with an average of six a day, a public safety group has said. The study by the Sao Paulo-based Brazilian Forum on Public Safety said police nationwide had killed 11,197 people over the past five years, while law enforcement agents in the US had killed 11,090 in the past 30 years.
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Saturday, November 15th 2014 - 08:04 UTC
Stats bash Roussef: Brazil lost jobs in October for the first time since 1999
Brazil lost jobs in October for the first time in at least 15 years, revealing the delicate state of the economy ahead of potential tax hikes and government austerity. Labor Ministry data showed on Friday that Latin America's largest economy unexpectedly trimmed 30,283 net payroll jobs in the tenth month of the year, the worst reading for the month since the data series began in 1999.
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Saturday, November 15th 2014 - 07:59 UTC
Argentine inflation: make your pick, in October anywhere from 1.2% to 2.3%
A reliable universally accepted rate of inflation in Argentina seems hard to come by although there are a battery of estimates, each of them arguing they are supported by statistically proven methods and thus the certainty of the indexes released.
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Saturday, November 15th 2014 - 07:52 UTC
Something stinks in Petrobras: former director and leading contractors CEOs arrested on bribery charges
Brazilian police arrested a former Petrobras executive on Friday, sending the state-run oil company's shares and bonds down after a widening corruption scandal forced it to delay the release of its financial results.
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Saturday, November 15th 2014 - 05:24 UTC
Falklands' naval exercises: “regular routine training”, says Ministry of Defense
UK described recent combined military exercises in and around the Falkland Islands as part of regular routine training. The statement follows on Thursday's strong Argentine protest, (which claims sovereignty over the (Malvinas) Islands), and called the military exercises a “new provocation”.
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Saturday, November 15th 2014 - 01:13 UTC
Parlasur dialogue with Kelpers: a great opportunity lost
By Jaime Trobo (*) - Parlasur, acronym for Mercosur Parliament, decided to approve a declaration relative to the Malvinas Islands situation, and more specifically on the sovereignty conflict between the Argentine Republic and Great Britain, which has been ongoing for over 180 years with no reasonable accord.
