By Jake Spring and Carolina Pulice SAO PAULO, July 28 (Reuters) – Brazil’s environmental authority on Thursday granted an initial permit that will allow a major highway to be paved through the center of the Amazon rainforest, the minister of infrastructure said, in a move that threatens to increase deforestation. Right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro […]
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By Gabriel Stargardter RIO DE JANEIRO, July 29 (Reuters) – As President Jair Bolsonaro has aggressively sought to boost gun ownership in Brazil, documents obtained by Reuters reveal one key source of resistance to his agenda: his own federal police. Nearly two decades after Brazil passed a landmark firearms control law, Bolsonaro has used dozens […]
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By Tamara Corro ACAYUCAN, Mexico, July 28 (Reuters) – Mexican authorities rescued nearly 100 migrants who escaped from a stifling trailer being driven by a people smuggler in the coastal state of Veracruz, officials said on Thursday. About 400 migrants were being transported in the trailer, near the small town of Acayucan, when they […]
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MADRID, July 29 (Reuters) – A Spanish prosecutor has asked for more than eight years in prison for Colombian superstar Shakira and a fine of more than 23 million euros ($23.51 million) over a 14.5 million euro tax fraud case, Spanish newspaper El Pais reported on Friday. The prosecutor’s office and Shakira’s representatives were not […]
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By Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News A war between Haitian gangs which has left hundreds dead since it flared up three weeks ago has spread to the centre of the capital, Port-au-Prince. Gang members engaged in a fierce gun battle with each other and with police on Wednesday. The city’s temporary cathedral caught fire amid the […]
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By Marlon Sorto, CNN (CNN) Nicaraguan opposition leader Yubrank Suazo, who participated in protests against the government of President Daniel Ortega in 2018, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (CENIDH) said Wednesday. The sentence was imposed by Judge Ulisa Tapia Silva at a court in the capital, […]
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Trending | View in Browser July 28, 2022 Today’s Headlines Hidden Menace: Massive methane leaks speed up climate change LENORAH, Texas (AP) — To the naked eye, the Mako Compressor Station outside the dusty West Texas crossroads of Lenorah appears unremarkable, similar to tens of thousands of oil and gas operations…Read More Russia steps up […]
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T&T Guardian- New data from UNAIDS on the global HIV response reveal that during the last two years of COVID-19 and other global crises, progress against the HIV pandemic has faltered, resources have shrunk, and millions of lives are at risk. The new report, In Danger, was launched today ahead of the International AIDS Conference […]
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By Santana Salmon A&B Prime Minister Gaston Browne says countries in the Eastern Caribbean affected by the 2009 collapse of the Trinidad-based Colonial Life Insurance Company (CLICO) could file a US$60 lawsuit against the government in Port of Spain to recover funds owed to policyholders. He told radio listeners that Trinidad and Tobago had made […]
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14ymedio, Havana, 26 July 2022 – – The day started off complicated in the editorial office of 14ymedio in Havana. Several members of the team awoke to no internet connection and started to look for alternative ways to reach their readers. They concluded, with resignation, that the reason for this was that Etecsa [the Cuban State […]
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