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This is a little different than your average South American change-of-command story, though. Usually, those spur-of-the-moment administration oustings are more in the form of uprisings or military takeovers, oftentimes with bullets, bloodshed, and the streets packed with pissed-off peasants registering either their contempt or their support for one side or the other. Not so in this instance, thankfully, although the president in office who was summarily removed probably didn't have enough time to become an emotional favorite of anyone. In Perú, three-quarters of the Congress just voted to REMOVE the president due to - get this - undeclared meetings with...

The illegal cutting of timber and the poaching of elephants and rhinos are part of a “rapidly escalating environmental crime wave” that international governments must combat by increasing cooperation, police and environmental officials said Wednesday. Interpol and the United Nations Environmental Program are working together to stop environmental crimes that cost tens of billions of dollars a year, said Achim Steiner, the U.N. Environmental Program's Executive Director. … The demand for elephant ivory by China’s rising middle class is fueling the deaths of thousands of elephants across Africa, say wildlife experts. An estimated 17,000 elephants were illegally killed in Africa...