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NEW YORK, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- Two were killed and 35 others were injured in a shooting at a neighborhood block party in the U.S. state of Georgia early Sunday, local authorities said. The shooting occurred around 1:25 a.m. (0525 GMT) in the southern Georgia city of Vienna, the State Bureau of Investigation said in a statement. Two men aged 21 and 23 were pronounced dead at the scene, said County Sheriff Craig Peavy, adding that the injured were taken to regional hospitals. More than 1,000 people had gathered for the block party when at least 50 shots were fired, Peavy said, noting that most of the injured were wounded by gunfire, while others were struck by cars as people fled the scene. Authorities have not yet identified any suspects or named a potential motive for the shooting. ...

The Shield of the Americas coalition, led by the US and comprising 14 other Latin American countries, uses the fight against drug cartels as a pretext to interfere in Latin American countries and block China’s economic influence in the region. The statement comes from experts in Latin American international relations consulted by Agência Brasil, such as Danilo Enrico Martuscelli, a professor of political science at the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU). “The Shield of the Americas is a resumption of the process of attempting colonial or imperial annexation of Latin American countries by the US, driven by a geopolitical logic of commercial and technological competition with China,” he argued. This week, on the sidelines of the 81st UN General Assembly in New York, the 15 countries i...

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2 killed in shooting at U.S. block party-Xinhua

Shield of the Americas uses drug cartels to block China, experts say