BRASILIA, March 17 (Reuters) – Brazilian tribal leaders and advocates on Thursday criticized the granting of an indigenous rights award to President Jair Bolsonaro, calling it an “atrocity” that ignores his record on dismantling protections for native people and the environment. Justice Minister Anderson Torres on Wednesday gave the Medal of Indigenous Merit to his […]

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By Vivian Sequera CARACAS, March 17 (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaido on Thursday called on energy companies with joint ventures in the country to stick to democracy, amid talks over the possibility of the United States easing oil sanctions on the OPEC member nation. Chevron Corp (CVX.N), the last U.S. producer operating in […]

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Two young indigenous boys rescued after almost four weeks lost in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest have been taken to a hospital. Glauco and Gleison Ferreira, eight and six, got lost trying to catch small birds in the jungle near Manicoré, Amazonas state, on 18 February. A local tree cutter found them by chance on Tuesday. They […]

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NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS March 17, 2022) — The Department of Gender Affairs, in the Ministry of Health and Gender Affairs, will host its first Gender Expo as part of marking Women’s Month observed annually on Nevis in March. Mr. Mario Phillip, Gender Officer while speaking to the Department of Information on March 16, 2022, invited the public […]

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Covid: UK Travel restrictions end and is the world ready for great reopening? Travel restrictions end for UK arrivals All remaining Covid travel restrictions have been lifted for passengers entering the UK. As of 04:00 GMT, unvaccinated arrivals no longer have to take tests – the rule had already been lifted for the vaccinated – […]

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By Tori B. Powell  CBS News Authorities have arrested 108 people, including alleged child sexual predators and those seeking prostitutes, in a six-day undercover human trafficking operation in Florida. Among those taken into custody were four Disney employees and a retired judge, police said. “The arrests of a human trafficker and four child predators alone […]

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Trending  |  Russia-Ukraine  |  View in Browser March 17, 2022 Today’s Headlines Hundreds feared trapped in Ukraine theater hit by airstrike KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities struggled to determine the fate of hundreds of civilians who had been sheltering in a theater smashed by a Russian airstrike in the besieged city of Mariupol…Read More […]

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Poland’s Karolina Bielawska has been crowned Miss World for the year 2021, besting contestants from 96 other countries, including Miss India Manasa Varanasi, who stood 11th at the international beauty pageant. The 70th edition of the event was held on Wednesday night at the Coca-Cola Music Hall in San Juan, Puerto Rico. According to the […]

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Public Transportation in Haiti Haiti is bracing for a shutdown of the public transportation system on Thursday after bus owners called on the government to do more to prevent their vehicles from being robbed by armed gangs. The announcement by the President of the Association of Owners and Drivers of Haiti, Changeux Méhu, comes as […]

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TEGUCIGALPA, March 16 (Reuters) – A Honduran judge authorized on Wednesday the extradition of former president Juan Orlando Hernandez to the United States on drug-trafficking and firearms charges, a decision his defense said it will appeal. The decision was announced on the Twitter account of the Central American country’s judicial authority. “We are going to […]

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