The Reuters Daily Briefing Tuesday, July 19, 2022 by Linda Noakes Hello Here’s what you need to know. Record temperatures scorch Europe, Putin visits Iran, and the ECB weighs a bigger rate hike Today’s biggest stories People cool off in a water fountain in Trafalgar Square in London, July 19, 2022. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls WORLD Britain […]

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By Santana Salmon Suriname has been rocked by a major fraud scandal in which millions of dollars (One SR$=US$0.04 cents) have been withdrawn from the bank account of the Ministry of Finance and Planning through forged documents and receipts. The authorities said a total of SRD$40.9 million was withdrawn from the account in April and […]

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By Santana Salmon Haiti has extradited 40-year-old Maxony Germinal to the United States where he is accused of being one of the arms and ammunition suppliers of the notorious criminal organization “400 Mawozo” involved in kidnapping and murders in the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country. Germinal was arrested on April 26 in Malpass, a town […]

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The ‘best’ bartender in Jamaica, who was denied a job in Wetherspoons pubs when he came to England, has opened his dream rum bar in Yorkshire. By Chloe Aslett Yorkshire Post Junior Lewis, aged 36, who won of the Taste of the Caribbean 2009 competition, opened Rumkeg876 on Abbeydale Road, Sheffield, in December and it […]

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BRASILIA, July 18 (Reuters) – Brazil’s Economy Minister Paulo Guedes said on Monday that the global economy is entering a stagflation period, which will be “much more serious” than he previously imagined. Brazil, on the other hand, is heading in the opposite direction, posting economic growth with falling inflation and lower unemployment, he said at […]

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By Sabrina Valle Summary About 11 billion barrels of oil and gas found off Guyana Country wants to accelerate production to develop economy Hopes to negotiate more favorable contracts for next phase New offshore oil blocks on offer from September GEORGETOWN, July 18 (Reuters) – For the poor, small South American country of Guyana, there’s […]

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QUITO, July 18 (Reuters) – Thirteen prisoners were killed at a prison in the Ecuadorean city of Santo Domingo on Monday, Ecuador’s prison agency said, the latest incident of deadly jail violence in the Andean country. The government of conservative President Guillermo Lasso attributes prison violence to fights between gangs over control of territory and […]

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By Cheney Orr and Brendan O’Brien   GREENWOOD, Ind., July 18 (Reuters) – The gunman who killed three people in a shopping mall near Indianapolis would likely have taken many more lives if not for the “heroic” actions of an armed bystander who shot the suspect dead and stopped the attack, police said on Monday. […]

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By Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC Mexico’s navy has held a ceremony to honour 14 marines who died when the helicopter they were travelling in crashed in the north of the country. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the marines had been supporting the moperation in which drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero was captured on Friday. The […]

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CHARLESTOWN, NEVIS, July 18, 2022 (MMS-SKN) — The Senior Citizens Division in the Nevis Island Administration’s Ministry of Social Services, in preparation for a break of seniors’ group meetings that coincides with the schools’ summer break, treated seniors on Nevis to a movie outing on Thursday July 14 at the Nevis Performing Arts Centre (NEPAC). […]

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