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Bolivia’s Morales keeps up comeback hopes as Copa Evo kicks off

Some see youth football tournament as former president’s latest attempt to keep his name in frame for 2025 vote

The Guardian - UK

Russia charges 92 Ukraine soldiers with war crimes

Russia wants an international tribunal backed by Syria, Iran and Bolivia

The Independent UK

Russian investigator says wants new tribunal for Ukraine

The head of Russia's investigative committee said Moscow had charged 92 members of Ukrainian armed forces with crimes against humanity and proposed an international tribunal backed by countries including Bolivia, Iran and Syria.

Reuters

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Typewriters are Still Thriving in Bolivia

Rogelio Condori clicks on his typewriter with his eyes focused on the paper.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Kew Gardens Announces New Giant Waterlily Species

Experts at London's Kew Gardens on Monday revealed they have discovered the first new giant waterlily species since the mid-19th century -- after it was initially mistaken for another. Specimens of the new species had lain undiscovered at the botanical garden for 177 years and in the National Herbarium of…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Newly identified waterlily species is world’s largest

Leaves of species grown at Kew Gardens can reach up to three metres in the wild

The Guardian - UK

Bolivia’s corrupt system failed to stem femicide. Now, feminists are fighting back

The case of Richard Choque, a serial rapist and murderer, who was placed only under house arrest, prompted outrage

The Guardian - US

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Latin America's kids slid into education black hole during pandemic

In Bolivia's highland city La Paz, Maribel Sanchez's children spent much of the last two years huddling over a small smartphone screen to attend online classes amid a lengthy lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Reuters

Former Bolivian president sentenced to 10 years in prison

Former Bolivian interim President Jeanine Áñez has been sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges linked to her assumption of office in 2019 amid violent protests that led to the resignation and exile of her predecessor, Evo Morales

The Independent UK

Bolivian ex-president Anez convicted of orchestrating coup, gets 10-yr sentence

A Bolivian court found former President Jeanine Anez guilty on Friday of orchestrating a coup that brought her to power during a 2019 political crisis.

Reuters

Cholita Mona Lisa: Bolivian Artist Gives Famed Portrait Indigenous Makeover

High in Bolivia's Andean mountains, surrounded by small thatched roofed houses and sheep, Claudia Callizaya, 32, makes the final brushstroke to her newest piece of art: a take on the "Mona Lisa" as a local indigenous cholita woman. Her adaptation has the same steady gaze as in Leonardo da Vinci's…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Laser technology reveals ancient cities with pyramids in Bolivian Amazon

Scientists believe the cities were built between 500 and 1400 AD and have been hidden for centuries under dense vegetation

Daily Mirror

In Bolivia's silver mountain, artisanal miners turn to coca and the devil

Next to one of Bolivia's poorest cities lies one of the richest silver mines in the history of mankind - Cerro Rico, Spanish for 'Rich Mountain - a once-legendary source of wealth for the Spanish Empire that is now being dug out by artisanal miners.

Reuters

Bolivian student, 52, jailed in probe of pay from government

Max Mendoza has been a remarkably persistent student — and a profitable one: He’s been enrolled at a public university in Bolivia for 32 years but never graduated

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Legendary lithium riches from Bolivia's salt flats may still just be a mirage

On Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni, a vast white salt flat that feels almost otherworldly, Karina Quispe is watching from the sidelines a global resource race for the world's largest - and almost untapped - trove of battery metal lithium.

The Guardian - UK

Dominic Thiem and Ons Jabeur slip to first-round defeats in French Open

Dominic Thiem was easily beaten by Bolivia’s Hugo Dellien in the French Open first round, while in the women’s event Ons Jabeur became the first major casualty with a surprise defeat by Poland’s Magda Linette

Benzinga

Eloro Resources Upsizes Bought Deal Financing To C$8.5M

Eloro Resources Ltd. (TSXV:ELO) (OTCQX:ELRRF) and Cormark Securities Inc. have agreed to increase the size of the previously announced financing. The underwriter has agreed to purchase, on a bought deal basis, 2.61 million units at C$3.25 per unit for gross proceeds of ~C$8.5 million. Each unit consists of one common share and one-half of one…

The Independent UK

Bolivia's Arce warns may not attend Summit of the Americas

Bolivia’s President Luis Arce says he may not go to the Summit of the Americas if some countries are not invited

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Bolivian president will not attend U.S. summit if other nations excluded

Bolivian President Luis Arce has announced that he will not participate in next month's Summit of the Americas in the United States if Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela are excluded from the gathering.

The Guardian - US

Accidental president or coup-plotter? Trial lays bare Bolivia’s polarisation

Jeanine Áñez assumed power after President Evo Morales was driven from office – now she is facing up to 15 years in prison

Reuters

Pages for pardons? In Bolivia, inmates can cut jail time by reading

Inmates in Bolivia's overcrowded prisons are now able to reduce their jail time by reading books in a new program influenced by one in Brazil that aims to spread literacy and give hope despite a notoriously slow judicial process.

Reuters

Bolivian boy turns photographer on iconic salt flats - with help from a dinosaur

On the otherworldly white salt flats of Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni, an 11-year-old boy has become a photography success taking quirky and creative pictures of tourists - with a little help from a blue plastic dinosaur toy.

Reuters

In Bolivia, a battle over a receding glacier 'doomed to disappear'

In the Andean mountains of Bolivia's high western plains where snow lies powdered over dark rocks that rise into a hard gray sky, scientists and climbers are fighting for the future of a dying glacier that has become a controversial lure for tourists.

Irish Mirror

Ireland's most expensive Easter egg will set you back a whopping €70

The Dublin-based company said that the cacao used for Treasure of the Rainforest eggs is of a “very tiny amount of cacao that is left untouched for native people to grow in the rainforests of Bolivia and this is true wild Criollo".

Reuters

World Court hears Chile vs Bolivia suit on Silala river rights

Chile asked judges at the World Court on Friday to award it "equitable and reasonable" use of the waters of the Silala river, which runs from Bolivia into Chile, in the latest dispute between the South American neighbours.

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