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ARGENTINA

For the first time in its history, Argentina in its new Census will ask citizens if they’re descendants of Africans and indigenous people.

The new questions are being included as both Afro-Argentine and indigenous groups have sought greater representation in the country, activists said.

PERU

Victims of the worst massacre in Peru’s 20-year Shining Path insurgency were buried Friday in the village of Accomarca, where 69 people were killed by the military in 1985. Of the 80 coffins buried, only 37 contained human remains. The others contained pieces of clothing or other objects families were able to identify as belonging to loved ones.

GERMANY

An organic farmer in the western city of Detmold is suing Volkswagen, alleging that emissions from the carmaker are contributing to climate change and ruining his ability to grow crops.

The farmer, backed by environmental group Greenpeace, says climate change is causing drier soil and damaging, heavier rains.

“A corporation with such gigantic CO2 emissions as VW is partly responsible for the damage caused by the climate crisis,” said Roda Verheyen, a lawyer representing the unidentified farmer.

RUSSIA

Middle school students in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk opened a 50-year-old time capsule Thursday to find messages of hope for peace and international friendship from their Soviet peers.

The capsule had been sealed in their school walls by the Pioneers’ youth group to mark the 50th anniversary of the birth of the Soviet Union. The aging ex-Pioneers were on hand for the opening.

ENGLAND

The owner of a Cornwall pub received a framed letter from Condé Nast, apologizing for threatening to sue him over the name of his establishment.

The Star Inn at Vogue had received a cease-and-desist letter from the Vogue mag publisher, demanding the pub change its name. But the bar in the historic hamlet of St. Day is older than the fashion magazine, and has been a local fixture for more than 200 years.