Trending  |  Russia-Ukraine  |  View in Browser March 16, 2022 Today’s Headlines Russian forces try to crush Ukraine defenses amid diplomacy KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s military forces blasted Ukraine’s capital region and other major cities Wednesday as they tried to crush a Ukrainian defense that has frustrated their progress nearly…Read More Zelenskyy center stage: […]

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Kidnappings in Haiti increased 180% in the past year, with 655 of them reported to police — though authorities believe the actual number is much higher By Evens Sanon   Thousands of doctors, nurses and other health professionals across Haiti have gone on strike to protest a spike in gang-related kidnappings as supporters burned tires […]

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By Sophie Barnett LBC @sophhbarnett The ban on same-sex marriages in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands has been upheld as constitutional, judges in the UK have ruled. Activists supporting same-sex marriages in the Cayman Islands and Bermuda received a heavy blow after the UK’s Privy Council sided with the government of Bermuda. The Privy Council, […]

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  A landslide that buried several houses after a hill collapsed is pictured in Retamas, Peru March 15, 2022. REUTERS/Larry Campos LIMA, March 15 (Reuters) – Part of a hill collapsed in northern Peru on Tuesday, burying at least 60 homes, the government said, with harrowing images on social media showing whole apartment buildings being […]

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SAN JOSE, March 15 (Reuters) – Costa Rica said on Tuesday the United States had agreed to work together on strengthening immigration and border policing in the Central American country, during a visit by U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado met with Mayorkas weeks after Costa Rica, Panama and […]

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The Norwegian Escape ran aground off the coast of the Dominican Republic BBC- A large cruise ship with thousands of passengers on board has been refloated after running aground off the Dominican Republic. A Dominican admiral said strong winds had caused the 326m (1,070ft) -long Norwegian Escape to ground as it left Puerto Plata. It […]

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A suspected drug lord, whose arrest sparked clashes in north-eastern Mexico, has been deported to the US. Juan Gerardo Treviño, also known as “El Huevo” or “The Egg,” was captured at dawn on Monday by Mexican authorities. A violent gun fight between the military and gang members ensued in Nuevo Laredo, a city on the […]

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NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (March 14, 2022) — Her Honour Hyleeta Liburd, Deputy Governor General on Nevis and Hon. Mark Brantley, Premier of Nevis planted ornamental plants at Government House on March 14, 2022 a symbolic gesture to mark the annual Commonwealth Day celebration. Commonwealth Day 2022 was celebrated among the 54 member countries of the Commonwealth with the […]

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By Soraya Ali BBC News Image source, Getty Images When Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine last month, 27-year-old Nigerian Ottah Abraham was outraged. He picked up his phone and tweeted: “I want to join the team.” He was some 8,700km (5,400 miles) away from the front line, in a small apartment in Nigeria’s main […]

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Two years after WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic, relief and hope are creeping back in Blanca Ortiz, 84, celebrates after learning from nurses that she will be dismissed from the Eurnekian Ezeiza Hospital, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Aug. 13, 2020, several weeks after being admitted with COVID-19. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) Two […]

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