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By Reuters Staff Slideshow ( 4 images ) ASUNCION (Reuters) - Paraguayan police said on Tuesday that they had seized a record 2.3 tons of cocaine at a private port near Asunción, with a market value of around $500 million, hidden in a charcoal shipment destined for Israel. The anti-narcotics unit in charge of the operation reported that the total amount of drugs seized in the Terport de Villeta port, some 30 kilometers (19 miles) from the Paraguayan capital, was 2,327 kilos. The authorities said that the cocaine was hidden in a shipment of six charcoal containers that were to be shipped to Is...

Coronavirus cases in Latin America for the first time have surpassed the combined infections in the United States and Canada, a Reuters tally showed on Sunday, amid a surge of infections in Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Colombia and Argentina.

2 Min Read ASUNCION, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Paraguayan authorities said on Friday they had found at least five badly-decomposed bodies inside a shipment of fertilizer that left Serbia three months ago. The container arrived earlier this week via Argentina at a river port on the outskirts of the Paraguayan capital Asuncion. The bodies were discovered on Friday when the managers of the company that bought the product opened it, said prosecutor Marcelo Saldivar. He suggested the victims could have been stowaways. “There are five so far,” he told reporters. “We are working on the basis that the...

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.

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