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Stories for January 9th 2024
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Tuesday, January 9th 2024 - 11:45 UTC
Lula wants exemplary punishments for those involved in Jan. 8 riots
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Monday that pardoning the coup plotters who staged the Jan. 8, 2023, uprising against the headquarters of all three branches of government in Brasilia would sound like impunity, Agencia Brasil reported.
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Tuesday, January 9th 2024 - 11:40 UTC
State of Emergency decreed in Ecuador amid simultaneous prison riots
Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa Monday decreed a state of emergency after riots erupted in at least six prisons nationwide, with inmates taking guards hostage and starting fires by burning mattresses. The measure allows the Armed Forces to intervene in support of law enforcement agencies.
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Tuesday, January 9th 2024 - 11:29 UTC
Montevideo wages sanitary war against mosquitoes
Montevideo City authorities are upping precautions in the presence of disease-transmitting mosquitoes. City Health Director Hugo Rousserie urged residents to take measures and explained that critical places where puddles appear, such as cemeteries, were monitored closely.
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Tuesday, January 9th 2024 - 10:59 UTC
Argentine FM to meet with Chinese ambassador amiid growing tension
Argentine Foreign Minister Diana Mondino is to meet on Thursday or Friday with Chinese Ambassador Wang Wei to discuss a US$ 6.5 billion currency swap brokered by former Economy Minister Sergio Massa last year, among other topics.
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Tuesday, January 9th 2024 - 10:42 UTC
Extent of ransomware attack in Paraguay downplayed
Paraguayan authorities Monday downplayed the importance of the ransomware attack by the Black Hunt group against the Armed Forces' computer systems that reportedly took place Sunday and argued there was no such breach.
