Tag: #Asuncion
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FIFA cancels planned council meeting in Asuncion
Lausanne, Feb 19 (AFP/APP): A FIFA Council meeting set to take place in the Paraguayan capital Asuncion in March has been cancelled, world football’s governing body said on Tuesday. In a statement, FIFA said the meeting had been cancelled “at the request of several of its members” and announced that it would be replaced by…
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Nearly 80 ‘highly dangerous’ inmates escape Paraguay prison
Asuncion, Jan 20 (AFP/APP) :Nearly 80 prisoners, many of them members of a big Brazilian drug and arms-trafficking gang and described as “highly dangerous,” escaped Sunday from a Paraguayan prison near the border with Brazil, police said. The inmates, both Brazilians and Paraguayans, made their getaway through a tunnel they had dug from the prison…