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Pope Francis embarks on an eight-day visit to Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay, three of South America's 'peripheral' countries which share common challenges in addressing poverty.

• 03 июля 2015, 14:21

Flooding has forced the evacuation of about 150,000 people in Paraguay's capital city Asuncion, authorities said.

• 11 июня 2014, 13:42

Kazakhstani Asel Rysmendieva, 24, has been nominated for the annual Hermann Gmeiner award that was named after Austrian philanthropist and SOS Children’s village founder.

• 07 июня 2014, 13:22

Conservative businessman Horacio Cartes was sworn in as president of Paraguay Thursday, amid slowly improving relations with South American neighbors damaged by the 2012 ouster of leftist president Fernando Lugo.

• 16 августа 2013, 14:25

They appeared out of nowhere, making a mess, operating without a permit and disrupting the football season by luring gawkers.

• 06 августа 2013, 16:55

Millionaire businessman Horacio Cartes of the opposition Colorado Party, a political neophyte with alleged drug ties, won Paraguay's presidential race.

• 22 апреля 2013, 10:30

A woman who claims that former president Fernando Lugo fathered her son charged Friday that the laboratory being used in the paternity case belongs to one of his political allies.

• 13 апреля 2013, 16:01

Paraguay's ex-president Fernando Lugo will have to undergo court-ordered DNA testing, after a judge ruled in favor of a woman who says he fathered her 11-year old son.

• 15 февраля 2013, 13:51

The Paraguayan Senate rejected Venezuela's entry into Mercosur on Thursday, a largely symbolic gesture as Asuncion has been suspended from the Latin American trade bloc.

• 24 августа 2012, 17:58