By Nelson Renteria SAN SALVADOR, April 24 (Reuters) – El Salvador’s Congress on Sunday approved a month-long extension of emergency measures that rights groups say infringe civil liberties but which President Nayib Bukele has said are necessary after a surge of gang killings. The measures, which enact emergency powers to limit some constitutional rights, went […]
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MANAGUA, April 24 (Reuters) – Nicaragua’s government on Sunday said it had completed its withdrawal from the Organization of American States (OAS), a move the group swiftly decried as violating international norms and unable to go into effect for another year. Nicaragua’s government also said it had closed the local OAS office and revoked the […]
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COVID third leading cause of US deaths last year: CDC © Associated Press/Matt Rourke COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in the United States in 2021, according to data released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The data illustrate the toll from the virus, with 415,000 COVID-19 deaths last year. Coronavirus […]
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Washington, DC – Congresswoman Stacey E. Plaskett released the following statement regarding the Caribbean Financial Access Roundtable co-hosted by Chairwoman Maxine Waters of the House Committee on Financial Services and the Honorable Mia Amor Mottley QC MP, Prime Minister of Barbados: “I am very pleased with the outcome of the Caribbean Financial Access Roundtable, […]
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Washington, DC – Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett of the USVI, a Member of the House Ways and Means, Budget and Agriculture Committees, released the following statement regarding the inaugural Congressional Caucus on Black Innovation (CBI), along with her colleagues and CBI co-chairs, Representative Marilyn Strickland (WA-10), a Member of the House Transportation & Infrastructure and Armed […]
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The end of an Anzac Day service, on a rugby field beside a war memorial arch, in Paraparaumu, has been clouded in controversy.The shortened service, hosted by Paraparaumu RSA, which began at 7am, was going according to plan but…
Members of an RSL in regional Victoria are "shocked and angry" after a burglar broke in and stole a number of goods, just hours before many attended dawn services to commemorate Anzac Day.
CCTV footage, released today, shows the thief allegedly stealing four bottles of alcohol worth $200 from the Traralgon RSL just after 3am this morning.
The man ran from the scene and was wearing a grey hooded jumper, grey track suit pants, black hat, black shoes and a mask covering his face.
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Traralgon RSL senior vice president Robert Holdsworth said it was very disappointing to hear the news.
"It's very sad (this happened) on Anzac Day," he said.
"A lot of people who heard about it were shocked and angry that it was today because today is very important."
Mr Holdsworth said the offender also allegedly broke some glass to gain access to the property.
"I am very sad for the club," he said.
"It makes you more nervous about our security, but we haven't had much trouble with in the past.
"It's unsettling now."
Detectives from Latrobe Crime Investigation Unit are calling for public help, with anyone who recognises the man urged to come forward.
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A moving dawn service has been held in Gallipoli, Turkey, after two years of cancelled Anzac Day commemorations due to the pandemic.
Today marks the 107th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings at Anzac Cove.
The service began with a song and didgeridoo performance.
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Major General John Boswell, Chief of Army, delivered the Call to Remembrance on behalf of the New Zealand Defence Force.
"At this time, 107 years ago, in ships that covered the ocean off this tiny bay, thousands of Australians and New Zealanders were preparing to land on this rugged coast," he told those gathered in the cove.
"For all but a few, this was to be their first experience of the horrors of combat. Most were convinced that, as one New Zealand soldier wrote in his diary: 'It will be the greatest days in our lives'."
The first Commemorative Address was then given by his Excellency Myles Armitage, the Australian ambassador to the Republic of Turkey.
"While the nature and focus of our remembrance of Anzac has changed over the intervening decades, our respect endures for those who fought here," he said.
"The men who landed at Arabuna on 25 April faced a daunting prospect. Sergeant Hubert Maher of the 3rd Battalion wrote that the country was precipitous, the heat tropical, and weighed down 'with our kit, the pace was a killer'."
Australia and New Zealand's buglers, who played the Last Post at this year's services in Gallipoli, told 9News earlier of their matching stories.
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Australian Army Bugler Isaac White and Raynor Martin from the New Zealand Army both attended for the first time, both visits were delayed due to COVID-19, and both had great-grandfathers who served at Gallipoli.
Mr Martin's 99-year-old grandmother gave him his great-grandfather's medals to take to Turkey.
"I actually had them blessed at Anzac Cove the other day and played a little sunset for him," he said.
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"That was pretty moving for me. I did shed a wee tear on the Peninsula."
Mr White said it was "surreal" to meet somebody with a similar family story.
Organisers had short notice for 2022's commemorations.
They were only officially given the green light by the government in early March.
Repatriation Commissioner Don Spinks said: "New Zealanders and Australians expect the opportunity to come here, so all stops were pulled out to make sure we were prepared."
Numbers were expected to be down at this year's Gallipoli service, with around 500 people anticipated, a far cry from the 10,000-strong turnout in 2015.
Those in charge of the historic site say they've made use of the two-year absence of Australian visitors to better preserve the location.
Hamiltonians do it again!Consultant John Powell and his friend dairy worker Paul Mulligan have converted a 2006 Nissan Presage station wagon into the Endeavour Space Shuttle to raise money for Starship children’s hospital.But…
