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2 Min Read ASUNCION (Reuters) - Paraguayan opposition lawmakers lost a bid on Wednesday to impeach President Mario Abdo over the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic in the South American country. Slideshow ( 4 images ) Abdo’s conservative government has faced fierce protests in recent weeks as a surge in COVID-19 cases has left hospitals on the brink of collapse and out of drugs, while the country has been slow to secure vaccines. Opposition lawmakers in the lower house of dep...

By Reuters Staff 6 Min Read (Reuters) - Every week, Reuters journalists produce scores of multimedia features and human-interest stories from around the world. FILE PHOTO: Emily Holloway, 24, and Brian Sussman, 23, enjoy a meal together at an indoor table at Canela Bistro and Wine Bar as indoor dining in the Bay Area resumes after being closed for months due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions in San Francisco, California, U.S. March 5, 2021. Picture taken March 5, 2021. REUTERS/Brit...

3 Min Read ASUNCION (Reuters) - Thousands of Paraguayans gathered around Congress in downtown Asunción on Monday, marking the fourth day of protests amid calls to impeach President Mario Abdo over the government’s handling of the COVID-19 health crisis. Slideshow ( 5 images ) The protesters, many wearing soccer jerseys and carrying national flags, chanted “Out Marito” and “Everyone out”, while criticizing the authorities for the lack of medicines and intensive care beds amid a spike ...

Publishing date: Mar 08, 2021  •  March 8, 2021  •  4 minute read  •  Article content ASUNCIÓN/LIMA — Sandra Contreras, camped outside Lima’s Villa el Salvador hospital, is running out of funds to pay for her mother’s COVID-19 treatment, a sign of thin welfare systems around Latin America that are dragging many into debt and poverty. “I have pawned all my things,” Contreras, 34, told Reuters between tears outside the hospital, where she has set up a hammock as she waits...

Slideshow ( 5 images ) ASUNCION (Reuters) - The people of Paraguay will honor their patron saint this year online or in neighborhood parishes, as pandemic rules prevent an annual pilgrimage to a sacred cathedral for the first time in a century. The sprawling white Caacupé Cathedral, surrounded by palm trees, is widely seen as the spiritual capital of the land-locked South American nation. For more than a century it has attracted nearly a million visitors annually around the holidays, culminati...

Dutch officials report record catch of more than 23 tonnes of cocaine German authorities seized more than 16 tonnes of cocaine in the northern port city of Hamburg AMSTERDAM/ASUNCION (Reuters) – Customs authorities in Germany and Belgium have seized a record haul of more than 23 tonnes of cocaine destined for the Netherlands in two raids this month, Dutch prosecutors said on Wednesday. The two shipments together represented a street value of roughly 600 million euros ($730 million), the p...

The two shipments together represented a street value of roughly 600 million euros ($730 million), the prosecutors said, making it the biggest seizure of cocaine headed for the Netherlands. Prosecutors said a 28-year-old Dutchman had been arrested on Wednesday who was registered as the recipient of the containers in which the drugs were found. In Hamburg, Germany, 16.17 tonnes of cocaine were found in over 1,700 tins of wall filler which had arrived on a container ship from Paraguay. In the Bel...

Share this article AMSTERDAM/ASUNCION, Feb 24 (Reuters) – Customs authorities in Germany and Belgium have seized a record haul of more than 23 tonnes of cocaine destined for the Netherlands in two raids this month, Dutch prosecutors said on Wednesday. The two shipments together represented a street value of roughly 600 million euros ($730 million), the prosecutors said, making it the biggest seizure of cocaine headed for the Netherlands. Prosecutors said a 28-year-old Dutchman had been ar...

Paraguay will on Thursday receive approximately 4,000 doses of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19, its health minister said on Tuesday, allowing it to kick-start its immunization program next week.

Slideshow ( 5 images ) ASUNCION (Reuters) - The people of Paraguay will honor their patron saint this year online or in neighborhood parishes, as pandemic rules prevent an annual pilgrimage to a sacred cathedral for the first time in a century. The sprawling white Caacupé Cathedral, surrounded by palm trees, is widely seen as the spiritual capital of the land-locked South American nation. For more than a century it has attracted nearly a million visitors annually around the holidays, culminati...