AP Photo/Christian Palma Andrés Manuel López Obrador won Mexico’s presidency in a landslide victory on Sunday night. The 64-year-old populist inherits a country plagued with official corruption and violence, and a population increasing disillusioned with the political status quo. He campaigned on a platform of ending corruption and poverty and has vowed not to live […]
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Former Panama dictator Manuel Noriega has died at 83
AP Photo PANAMA CITY (Reuters) – Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, who spied for the CIA before his drug trafficking and brutal regime sparked a U.S. invasion in 1989, has died aged 83. President Juan Carlos Varela announced Noriega’s death on Twitter late on Monday, and said his passing marked the closing of a chapter […]
Rio rematch: Penny Oleksiak, Simone Manuel meet again in Atlanta
It may look a little like Rio de Janeiro on Friday night in Atlanta — at least if you’re by the pool. Canada’s Penny Oleksiak and Simone Manuel of the U.S., co-gold medallists in the 100-metre women’s free, will once again meet in the blocks at the Arena Pro Swim Series. Nearly nine months since their wholly unexpected […]
