Nadine White Race Correspondent Independent Saint Kitts and Nevis has become the latest Caribbean nation to indicate it wants to part ways with the British monarchy and become a republic – just as Prince Edward and his wife Sophie end a tour of the region in celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Shawn Richards, […]
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By Jake Spring SAO PAULO, April 28 (Reuters) – The world lost an area of forest the size of the U.S. state of Wyoming last year, as wildfires in Russia set all-time records and Brazilian deforestation of the Amazon remains high, a global forest monitoring project report said on Thursday. Global Forest Watch, which […]
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WASHINGTON, April 27 (Reuters) – Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government are likely to be excluded from the U.S.-hosted Summit of the Americas to be held in June in Los Angeles, a senior State Department official said on Wednesday. “They are unlikely to be there,” U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Brian Nichols told […]
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CARACAS, April 27 (Reuters) – Judges on Venezuela’s Supreme Justice Tribunal on Wednesday named Gladys Gutierrez – who is under sanction by the United States – as the court’s new president. Gutierrez is one of 20 judges that Venezuela’s ruling-party controlled National Assembly appointed to the South American country’s top court earlier this week. read […]
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By Marcelo Rochabrun LIMA, April 27 (Reuters) – Peruvian police said on Wednesday they had evicted an indigenous community that set up a camp inside a huge open pit owned by MMG’s Las Bambas copper mine, that had forced the Chinese-owned company to halt operations. Las Bambas, owned by China’s MMG Ltd (1208.HK), supplies […]
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BBC- Eleven Colombian ex-soldiers are giving details about extrajudicial killings carried out by the army during Colombia’s armed conflict. They are taking part in a public hearing of the special court examining crimes committed during the conflict. More than 6,400 civilians were killed by the military and falsely passed off as enemy combatants between 2002 […]
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WHO CHIEF: WORLD ‘BLIND’ TO COVID TRANSMISSION, EVOLUTION The World Health Organization’s (WHO) director-general is pressing countries to maintain COVID-19 surveillance and share information on its transmission and sequencing, saying reduced testing abroad “makes us increasingly blind to patterns of transmission and evolution.” Speaking on Tuesday during a press conference, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus noted that […]
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Trending | View in Browser April 27, 2022 Here is today’s selection of top stories from The Associated Press at this hour to begin your day. Today’s Headlines Russia says it’s cutting gas to two EU nations in escalation POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — Russia opened a new front in its war over Ukraine on Wednesday, […]
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By Santana Salmon CNW- The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) on Monday urged countries to step up efforts to tackle malaria in the region, calling for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment interventions that are data-led and tailored to local contexts. In a message marking World Malaria Day, PAHO said in 2020, the 18 endemic countries of […]
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Skip to content Police of the Ortega regime during the raid on the facilities of ’La Prensa’, in August of last year. (Twitter) EFE (via 14ymedio), Miami, 21 April 2022 — The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) concluded its biannual meeting with a pessimistic document in which it maintains that “the increasing violence against journalists […]
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