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UPDATE 3-Ford details new production cuts due to global chip shortage
DETROIT, April 14 (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co on Wednesday outlined another series of plant shutdowns due to the global semiconductor chip shortage, with five facilities in the United States and one in Turkey affected.
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Food parcels arrive in Brazil's favelas as pandemic sparks wave of hunger
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil is one of the world's most important agricultural producers, but millions of people in Latin America's biggest country are struggling to put food on the table as the COVID-19 outbreak wreaks havoc on the economy.
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UPDATE 2-Healthcare collapse imminent, Brazil's Sao Paulo warns, as COVID-19 cases surge
SAO PAULO/BRASILIA, April 14 (Reuters) - Brazil's richest and most populous state, Sao Paulo, has warned its ability to care for seriously ill COVID-19 patients is on the verge of collapse as it runs perilously low on key drugs, according to a letter to the federal government seen by the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper.
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Venezuela's seeking of specific vaccines will slow inoculation, Guaido says
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela is risking further delays to an already stalled COVID-19 vaccination campaign by seeking to use specific brands of vaccines while shunning readily available ones, opposition leader Juan Guaido said on Wednesday.
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Argentine president given all-clear after COVID-19 infection
BUENOS AIRES, April 14 (Reuters) - Argentine President Alberto Fernández was given his medical all clear on Wednesday after testing positive for COVID-19 earlier in April, though he never displayed more than mild symptoms and continued to work through a period of isolation.
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Mexico reports 5,113 new coronavirus cases, 518 more deaths
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's government reported 5,113 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 518 more fatalities, according to data from the health ministry on Wednesday, bringing the country's total to 2,291,246 infections and 210,812 deaths.
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FEATURE-Haiti win raises hopes for women seeking child support from U.N. peacekeepers
BOGOTA, April 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A historic court order for a former United Nations peacekeeper to pay child support for a daughter he fathered while stationed in Haiti raises hopes for dozens of other mothers seeking similar claims worldwide, the woman's lawyers said.
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UPDATE 3-U.S. Vice President Harris plans visits to Mexico and Guatemala
WASHINGTON, April 14 (Reuters) - Vice President Kamala Harris said on Wednesday she intends to visit Mexico and Guatemala soon as part of her plan to use diplomatic efforts to slow migration to the U.S.-Mexican border.
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Exclusive: Olympics-COVID cuts hit anti-doping program at Tokyo Games
(Reuters) - Anti-Doping accreditations for the Tokyo Olympics have been cut due to COVID-19 but the core management team in charge of delivering a drug-free Games will remain intact, the head of the International Testing Agency (ITA) told Reuters.
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Analysis: Cuban Communists under pressure to accelerate economic reforms
HAVANA (Reuters) - Retiring Cuban Communist Party leader Raul Castro promised a decade ago he would transform the Soviet-style command economy into a more mixed and market-driven one "without haste and without pause."
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