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A former Florida beauty queen was k!lled by the devastating earthquakes that shook Venezuela last week, after she was found lying side-by-side with her boyfriend underneath the rubble of their building.

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Thousands of demonstrators blocked an avenue leading to Mexico City’s Azteca Stadium on Tuesday, just days before the 2026 World Cup kicks off at the venue.

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Three people died from suffocation Tuesday night as more than one million fans flooded the streets of Mexico City to celebrate Mexico's 2-0 World Cup victory over Ecuador, the nation's first knockout-round win in four decades.

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Health authorities in Brazil are monitoring two patients for possible Ebola infection in the country's two biggest cities, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. 

A man, 37, from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) "exhibited symptoms such as fever", São Paulo's state government said.

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At least 188 people have been killed and more than 1,500 injured after the powerful back-to-back earthquakes in Venezuela, according to the latest reports. 

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Polls have closed in Colombia's presidential election.

The vote is being held after months of public recrimination between current left-wing President Gustavo Petro and his US counterpart Donald Trump over a number of issues including drug trafficking and American intervention in the region.

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Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodriguez has declared a state of emergency after strong back-to-back earthquakes and nearly two dozen aftershocks shook the country, collapsing buildings in ​the capital, Caracas. 

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The Brazilian bodybuilding influencer and content creator, 22, was found dead in the kitchen of his São Paulo apartment on Saturday, May 23, with police treating the case as a suspicious and sudden death. He had amassed more than 2.3 million followers on Instagram, 1.3 million on TikTok and 403,000 subscribers on YouTube.