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Reçu aujourd’hui — 5 juillet 2025

‘We don’t want contact because you are bad’: loggers close in on uncontacted people in Peruvian Amazon

5 juillet 2025 à 13:00

Logging, drug trafficking and the climate crisis endanger the world’s largest isolated Indigenous group, on the border with Brazil

In 1999, Beatriz Huertas, then a young anthropologist, travelled deep into the Peruvian Amazon to investigate reports of uncontacted Indigenous peoples. Along the Las Piedras River, people in Monte Salvado, a Yine Indigenous village, described how every summer, “aislados” – those who avoid sustained contact with outsiders – would appear across the river.

“They were coming into the fields and taking bananas,” says Huertas.

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© Photograph: AP

© Photograph: AP

Reçu hier — 4 juillet 2025

Allez, allez, allez! Quebec gives go-ahead to cheer ‘go!’ in English at provincial sports games

4 juillet 2025 à 21:43

Province’s language police had a petite contretemps when it challenged Montreal transit agencies use of word on buses

Quebec’s mercurial and controversial language police have decided that using the word “go” is a legitimate way to cheer on sports teams in the province, paving the way for excited fans – and Montreal’s transit agency - to celebrate without fear of recrimination.

In new guidelines, the Office Québécois de la Langue Française (OQLF, the Quebec Board of the French Language) said that “go” was now “partially legitimized”, according to reporting by the Canadian Press, although the language watchdog says it prefers the French equivalent: allez.

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© Photograph: Lee Brown/Alamy

© Photograph: Lee Brown/Alamy

Suriname expected to elect first female president amid discovery of oil reserves

4 juillet 2025 à 18:27

Jennifer Geerlings-Simons, 71, will run unopposed as one of the poorest countries in the region eyes billions of dollars

Suriname is expected to elect its first female president this Sunday, the congresswoman and physician Jennifer Geerlings-Simons, 71, who will run unopposed after the ruling party decided not to field a candidate.

Geerlings-Simons will succeed current president Chandrikapersad Santokhi, 66, who has been in office since 2020 and was eligible for re-election – but whose party failed to secure the two-thirds parliamentary majority required in the country’s indirect voting system.

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© Photograph: Sharon Singh/AP

© Photograph: Sharon Singh/AP

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