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Neymar addresses Pele comparison after breaking Brazil legend’s goal record

Neymar surpassed the iconic Brazil striker Pele’s national goalscoring record in his country’s 5-1 rout of Bolivia in qualification for the 2026 World Cup.

Evening Standard

Neymar breaks Pele's record as Brazil crush Bolivia 5-1

NEW DELHI: Neymar made history by surpassing Pele as Brazil's all-time leading scorer, netting two second-half goals in a 5-1 victory over Bolivia during South America's 2026 World Cup qualifiers on Friday.

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Bolivia's opposition leader undergoes medical tests as his pre-trial detention drags on for months

The governor of Bolivia’s most populous and richest region has been allowed to briefly leave his high-security prison cell for medical tests, highlighting how the politician widely considered the country’s opposition leader has been governing from behind bars for more than eight months

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Amazon rainforest | The scramble to save the planet’s lungs

At the ACTO summit in Belem do Para, Brazil, leaders from Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana called for cooperation to protect the Amazon rainforest. The “Belem declaration” promised concerted efforts to arrest deforestation, protect Indigenous people’s rights and invite development banks to pool funds for conservation…

The Hindu

Bolivian National Deputy Leads Effort To Legalize Cryptocurrencies

Mariela Baldivieso spearheads initiative to lift ban and establish regulatory norms, aiming to strengthen economy and promote financial inclusion.

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‘Winter is disappearing’: South America hit by ‘brutal’ unseasonal heatwave

Buenos Aires records hottest start to August in 117 years, Chile sees highs towards 40C and Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil also bake

The Guardian - US

A drought alert for receding Lake Titicaca has Indigenous communities worried for their future

Authorities in Bolivia have declared a drought alert for Lake Titicaca after water levels of the world's highest navigable lake receded to a critically low threshold

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Bolivia is the latest South American nation to use China's yuan for trade in challenge to the dollar

Bolivia is using the yuan to pay for imports and exports, becoming the latest country in South America to regularly use the Chinese currency in a small but growing challenge to the hegemony of the U.S. dollar

The Independent UK

Bolivia says it is interest in obtaining Iranian drone technology to protect its borders

Bolivia is interested in obtaining Iranian drone technology to protect its borders and combat smuggling and drug trafficking, the Andean country’s Defense Minister Edmundo Novillo confirmed Tuesday, a day after Argentina demanded information on the opaque agreement sealed between Iran and Bolivia that has raised security concerns in the region

The Independent UK

Bolivia boosts lithium resources estimate, cementing spot as global leader

Bolivia’s president says the Andean country's total lithium resources have increased 2 million tons to a total of 23 million tons

The Independent UK

‘No one is talking about it’: the cruelty of long Covid in the global south

As research focuses on richer parts of world, people in less developed countries suffer from lack of awareness and support

The Guardian - US

The forgotten Amazon: as a critical summit nears, politicians must get serious about deforestation in Bolivia

When asked to situate the world’s most iconic rainforest on a map, most people will pinpoint Brazil. And given the intense media coverage of the country’s deforestation and fires – concerns reached a peak under former president Jair Bolsonaro and his free-for-all approach – they might also imagine a thick…

The Conversation

Citic Guoan Wins Contract to Develop Bolivian Lithium Deposits

Chinese state-linked conglomerate will work with the South American country in the mining, refining, processing and sale of the key battery material

Caixin Global

Vatican sends Bolivia diary of late priest who allegedly abused minors in the Andean nation

The Vatican has sent Bolivia the diary of the late Alfonso Pedrajas, a Jesuit priest who died in 2009 and allegedly confessed to having abused several minors in the country dating back to the 1980s

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Pope Francis expresses concern and dismay over alleged abuse by priests in Bolivia

Pope Francis has expressed concern — and dismay — over allegations of sexual abuse committed by priests in Bolivia

The Conversation

Events in Bolivia and Brazil may signal a turning point for the Catholic Church's sexual abuse crisis in Latin America

Demonstrations in Bolivia in recent weeks have been directed at a seemingly unusual target: the Catholic Church.

Daily Mirror

Image shows mythical bloodsucking creature after spate of livestock deaths

Villagers in the Bolivian city of Oruro have blamed a recent spate of animal deaths on the mythical creature known as the chupacabra after finding the carcasses emptied of blood

The Independent UK

Bolivian Catholics unfazed by sex scandals as they gear up for massive festival

Catholic devotees in Bolivia are preparing for one of the country’s biggest religious celebrations this weekend at a time when the church in this Andean country has been rocked by an increasing number of sex abuse scandals

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Bolivia: Trustee probing bankrupt bank died by suicide, no foul play found in fall from building

The trustee of a bankrupt bank in Bolivia who died after falling from the 15th floor of an office building killed himself, a forensic investigation has concluded, casting new doubts on a case that has gripped Bolivia amid accusations of a cover up and as the country faces an economic…

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Achacha is a tropical fruit from Bolivia, but the world's first commercial plantation is in Australia

In the depths of South America's Amazon Basin, the achachairú, a highly prized tropical fruit, has been cultivated for generations. But it's on the side of the world, in North Queensland, that the fruit is grown on the greatest scale.

The Independent UK

Another deceased Jesuit priest accused of sex abuse in Bolivia as pedophilia scandal grows

A Spanish Jesuit priest who died in 2012 has been accused of sexually abusing a minor in Bolivia three decades ago, the latest in a string of pedophilia cases that have shaken the Catholic Church in the Andean country

The Independent UK

Bolivia's Catholic Church acknowledges being 'deaf' to sex abuse victims

Leaders of the Roman Catholic Church in Bolivia are acknowledging that the institution has been deaf to the suffering of victims of sexual abuse at a time when the country has been rocked by a pedophilia scandal involving priests

Reuters

Bolivia's Catholic Church says it was 'deaf' to sexual abuse victims

Roman Catholic Church leaders in Bolivia said on Wednesday the institution had been "deaf" to sexual abuse in Church-run schools and said they were taking action after a series of accusations in recent weeks led to protests and a legal investigation.

The Independent UK

Pope sends Vatican official to Bolivia as abuse allegations escalate

Pope Francis has sent one of his top sex crimes investigators to Bolivia at a time when the Andean nation is being shaken by an escalating pedophilia scandal involving priests

The Independent UK

Bolivian Catholic priest detained on suspicion of abusing seminary students amid pedophilia scandal

A Bolivian priest has been detained on suspicion of abusing seminary students a decade ago in a case that emerged in the Andean country in the wake of a pedophilia scandal involving a deceased Jesuit priest

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