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Manjui Indigenous Raquel Achucarro poses for a photo as she tends to a backyard burning in the Abisai community in Mariscal Estigarribia, in the western region of Paraguay known as the Paraguayan Chaco.
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World of photos, August 30, 2024

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.

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Even the COVID-denying President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro is crowing about the drop in infections.

‘Not easy to explain’: Sharp drop in South America’s COVID infections stuns experts

A few weeks ago COVID was ravaging the continent. Now new infections have fallen in nearly every nation as vaccination rates have ramped up.

  • Ernesto Londoño, Daniel Politi and Flávia Milhorance
Cristopher Benegas, 12, fishes in what’s left of the Payagua stream, a tributary of the Paraguay River, in Chaco I, Paraguay, on Friday.

The country with the most fresh water on the planet has lost 15 per cent of it

The Brazilian scientists were sceptical. They ran different models to check calculations, but they all returned the same startling result.

  • Diane Jeantet
Police patrol the Gorbitz district of Dresden, Germany.

German authorities bust child porn site with 400,000 users

The site included forums where members from around the globe exchanged images and videos showing children being sexually abused.

  • Melissa Eddy
Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benitez with his wife Silvana Lopez, at his inauguration in Asuncion in 2018. His government is under pressure to explain the deaths of two girl "rebels" at the hands of security forces.

Argentina demands explanation for deaths of two 11-year-old 'rebels'

They were killed in Paraguayan security operation that brought criticism of rightist President Mario Abdo Benitez's government from human rights organisations.

  • Daniela Desantis and Maximilian Heath
Jair Bolsonaro attends an inauguration ceremony for Andre Mendonca, Brazil's new minister of justice, after foremr judge and minister Sergio Moro resigned.

'So what?': Brazil's neighbours worry about laissez-faire virus response

President Jair Bolsonaro has dismissed the gravity of his country's death toll having passed China's, but his neighbours are taking steps to curb the spread.

  • Almudena Calatrava
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Former soccer star Ronaldinho, second from left, and his brother Roberto de Assis Moreira walks escorted by police officers to declare to judge Clara Ruiz Diaz at Justice Palace in Asuncion, Paraguay.

'I never imagined I would go through something like this': Ronaldinho breaks silence

Ronaldinho and his brother were held in jail for 32 days before being released on $1.6 million bail.

Former soccer star Ronaldinho is escorted by police to go before Judge Mirko Valinotti at the Justice Palace court in Asuncion, Paraguay, Friday, March 6, 2020. Ronaldinho has been detained by Paraguayan police for allegedly entering the country with a falsified passport. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Ronaldinho to remain behind bars in Paraguay over fake passport claim

The former Brazilian international star Ronaldinho Gaucho and his brother were ruled a flight risk after allegedly entering the country with falsified documents.

An armoured vehicle stands guard at Pedro Juan Caballero city jail in Paraguay following the jailbreak.

Mass escape in tunnel jailbreak at Paraguayan prison

Paraguay's Justice Minister says the operation would have taken days and it was obvious that the escape was a "paid plan".

Cars drive on the 9 de Julio Ave, past the illuminated Obelisk monument in Buenos Aires, Argentina, after power was restored.

Trust in single power line played role in Argentine outage

A single, repeated fault, shut down the entire grid and left tens of millions of people across three countries without power.

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