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El Salvador football stadium stampede kills 12

Authorities said initial reports pointed to a crush of fans who tried to enter Cuscatlan Stadium in the Central American country's capital San Salvador to watch a match between teams Alianza...

A medical team arrives following a stampede prior to a soccer game between C.D. FAS Vs. Alianza F.C. at the Cuzcatlan stadium, in San Salvador, El Salvador May 20, 2023. REUTERS/ Jose Cabezas
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At least 12 dead in stampede at El Salvador soccer stadium

Relatives and neighbours carry one of five people who died after a mudslide caused by constant rains, in Huizucar, El Salvador September 22, 2022. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas
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At least seven dead after landslides in El Salvador

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El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele speaks during a ceremony to lay the first stone of Chivo Vet, a veterinary hospital financed with the gains El Salvador has obtained from its bitcoin operations, in Antiguo Cuscatlan, El Salvador November 1, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas
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El Salvador plans first 'Bitcoin City', backed by bitcoin bonds

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El Salvador to use bitcoin gains to fund veterinary hospital, president says

Around 1,000 protesters took the the streets of San Salvador opposing the Latin American country's adoption of Bitcoin. Picture: Collected
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Protests erupt in El Salvador as Bitcoin crashes

Representations of cryptocurrencies Bitcoin, Ethereum, DogeCoin, Ripple, Litecoin are placed on PC motherboard in this illustration taken June 29, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
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El Salvador leads the world into cryptocurrency: Bitcoin legal tender

A Salvador's soldier secures the perimeter of the site where authorities were excavating a clandestine mass grave discovered at a house of a former police officer containing many bodies, most of them believed to be women in Chalchuapa, El Salvador June 3, 2021. Picture taken June 3, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas
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El Salvador 'House of Horrors' killings shock nation numbed to violence

A Bitcoin coin is seen in an illustration picture taken at La Maison du Bitcoin in Paris, France Photo: Reuters
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Bitcoin to become legal tender in El Salvador on 7 September

El Salvador's Finance Minister Alejandro Zelaya speaks during a news conference in San Salvador, El Salvador June 16, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas
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World Bank rejects El Salvador request for help on bitcoin implementation

A Bitcoin coin is seen in an illustration picture taken at La Maison du Bitcoin in Paris, France Photo: Reuters
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IMF sees legal, economic issues with El Salvador bitcoin move

Attorney General Rodolfo Delgado arrives at a news conference at the site where authorities are excavating a clandestine cemetery discovered at the house of a former police officer and containing many bodies, most of them believed to be women in Chalchuapa, El Salvador May 21, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas/File Photo
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El Salvador ends anti-corruption accord with OAS, dismaying US