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Ecuadorian couple named world’s oldest married pair
- World
- August 29, 2020, 09:17
An Ecuadorian couple aged 110 and 104 have been recognised as the world’s oldest married pair. Julio Mora slipped away from his parents to secretly m(...)

Protests erupt in Bolivia as Morales claims election win
- World
- October 22, 2019, 07:25
Demonstrators have taken to the streets in Bolivia after the counting of votes in Sunday’s presidential election descended into controversy with the r(...)

Violent protests force Ecuador’s government to leave capital
- Europe
- October 8, 2019, 20:33
Ecuador’s government has decamped from the capital in Quito to the coastal city of Guayaquil after five days of violent protests over fuel price rises(...)

No autonomous regional effort to heal Venezuela’s political strife
- World
- March 23, 2019, 05:00
Among the various diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis in Venezuela, there is one very notable absence – that of an autonomous regional effort to (...)

Venezuela border: ‘What I earn a month is not enough to buy a bottle of gas’
- World
- February 12, 2019
In dismissing the need for the international aid operation being organised by his political opponents, President Nicolás Maduro defiantly said Venezue(...)

US opposition to breastfeeding motion stuns world health officials
- US
- July 9, 2018, 09:25
A resolution to encourage breastfeeding was expected to be approved quickly and easily by the hundreds of government delegates who gathered this sprin(...)

Never mind the wedding – where’s the honeymoon?
- Travel
- May 19, 2018, 06:00
Wildlife Where Harry took Meghan? Well, not exactly, but those who caught the engagement interview might remember Harry’s favourite place in the world(...)

Imagine two cities on the equator. What’s the quickest route between them?
- Science
- April 19, 2018, 05:00
Geodesy is the study of Earth’s shape and size, and of variations in its gravitational field. Earth was originally believed to be flat, but many clues(...)

Colombia’s ELN rebels resume attacks as ceasefire expires
- World
- January 10, 2018, 19:50
Colombia’s Marxist ELN rebels resumed attacks on oil installations and the armed forces on Wednesday, threatening the future of peace talks just hours(...)

The Galápagos: a precarious paradise
- Long Haul
- April 22, 2017, 06:00
Playing an underwater game of Simon Says with a sea lion is one of those improbable encounters you come to expect when you visit the Galápagos. She ap(...)