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US Latinos: less predictable at the polls, more focused on pocketbook
US Latinos: less predictable at the polls, more focused on pocketbook
by  AFP

While Latino voters lean Democratic in the run-up to US midterm elections, soaring inflation makes their support less predictable and may compel a shift toward Republican candidates, analysts say. "The alarm for the Democratic Party is that if it doesn't retain its margin of support among Latino voters, it runs the risk of losing key, tightly-contested elections," Dominguez-Villegas added.

Italy to let migrant rescue ship dock for health checks: foreign minister
Italy to let migrant rescue ship dock for health checks: foreign minister
by  AFP

Italy will allow an NGO ship carrying 179 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean to dock so medics can carry out health checks, the country's foreign minister said Friday. More than 1,000 migrants are currently aboard rescue boats trying to reach Europe, and Italy has faced mounting pressure to let humanitarian ships dock.

Indigenous people free tourists taken in Peruvian Amazon
Indigenous people free tourists taken in Peruvian Amazon
by  AFP

Members of an Indigenous group on Friday freed more than 100 tourists whom they had abducted in the Peruvian Amazon a day earlier to protest what they called government inaction after an oil spill, officials said.

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