WHERE ARE THE MILLIONS FOR THIS TRAGEDY LIKE THERE WERE  FOR NOTRE DAME

In a desperate plea for more funding, Museum Director, Alexander Kellner warned "there will be no more National Museum" in Rio de Janeiro unless the education ministry coughs up some cash.

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Gutted and Broke: Brazil's National Museum Pleads for Money

A faulty air conditioning system sparked a fire that gutted Latin America's main natural history museum, destroying most of its collection.

HANDS OFF VENEZUELA

Spain’s Foreign Minister Josep Borrell Wednesday accused the United States of behaving like a "cowboy" in Venezuela and stressed that a solution to its current political impasse should be "peaceful, negotiated and democratic."

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Spain Foreign Minister Says US Behaves as 'Cowboy' in Venezuela

Josep Borrell stressed that the international community should be working towards a "peaceful, negotiated and democratic" solution to the political impasse.

"The judges and magistrates of the TSJ categorically and forcefully reject the threat made by Mr. Pence, who, in a disrespectful and interfering manner seeks to subjugate the highest Venezuelan judicial authorities through threats that violate the principles of independence of self-determination and sovereignty"

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Venezuela’s Top Court Rejects US VP Pence’s Threat of Sanctions

Venezuela's Supreme Court of Justice rejected U.S. Vice President Mike Pence's threats of sanctions if they do not oppose President Nicolas Maduro. 

The Bolivarian National Intelligence Service arrested opposition lawmaker Edgar Zambrano Wednesday for his participation in the attempted coup on April 30.

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Police Arrest 2nd Top Venezuelan Opposition Lawmaker for Attempted Coup

The crimes Zambrano is charged with are: "treason to the homeland, conspiracy, instigating an insurrection" among others.

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Racism is an insignificant problem in Brazil, according to President Jair Bolsonaro, who has been accused of not just racist but also homophobic and sexist comments in the past.

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Racism 'Rare' in Brazil: Far-Right, Racist Bolsonaro

Creating colorful pictures of surreal human faces, marine animals or even huge owls, hundreds of graffiti artists have turned the Chilean port of Valparaiso into a gigantic open-air art gallery.

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Chilean Graffiti Artists Less Criminalized with Tourist Boom

With the raise of tourism, local authorities have designated spaces for graffiti artists, yet some of them have claimed they were still chased by police.

The Gaza-based Palestinian Artists Association is asking for Eurovision contestants to boycott the international music competition that Israel will be hosting from May 14 to 18 in Tel Aviv.

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Palestinian Artists Urge Eurovision Singers to Boycott Israel

Artists around the world and civil society organizations have called for a boycott based on the systematic killing of Palestinians and violations of international law. 

Climate patterns are rapidly becoming stronger and unusual.

UNUSUAL/ANOMALOUS/STRANGE

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El Niño Climate Phenomenon Is Now Stronger and Stranger: Study

A group of researchers from the University of New South Wales explain how they developed a method to obtain the centuries-long seasonal record using coral cores.

Krassnoff was unanimously sentenced to 10 years and one day in prison in the capacity as the architect of the crime, which was committed on October 5, 1974.

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Chile: Ex-Pinochet Agent Gets 10 Years For MIR Leader's Murder

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Intercepted Podcast: Everywhere Is War — the American Threat to Iran, Venezuela, and Women

Intercepted Podcast: Everywhere Is War — the American Threat to Iran, Venezuela, and Women
As the U.S. moves a strike group and bombers near Iran and John Bolton threatens the country with “unrelenting force,” The Intercept’s Murtaza Hussain discusses Trump’s motley crew of regime-change warriors, what war with Iran would look like, and the strategy behind the economic sanctions.

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Intercepted Podcast: Everywhere Is War — the American Threat to Iran, Venezuela, and Women

The Intercept’s Murtaza Hussain and Jordan Smith, along with Sen. Mike Gravel and archivist Jeff Place join the Intercepted podcast this week as guests.

WHEN IT BECOMES TO EXPENSIVE FOR PRIVATE CAPITAL THEY PASS IT ON TO US THE WORKER CONSUMER CITIZEN TAXPAYER

U.S. asset manager BlackRock has pulled out of a proposed rescue of Italian bank Carige, raising the prospect that Rome could be drawn into a costly state bailout.

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BlackRock pulls out of rescue bid for Italian bank Carige

IMPERIALISM ON THE HIGH SEAS
In fresh show of naval force in the contested South China Sea, a U.S. guided missile destroyer conducted drills with a Japanese aircraft carrier, two Indian naval ships and a Philippine patrol vessel in the waterway claimed by China, the U.S. Navy said on Thursday.

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U.S., Japan, India and Philippines challenge Beijing with naval drills in the South China Sea