BBC-Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has decreed six new indigenous reserves, banning mining and restricting commercial farming there. The lands – including a vast area of Amazon rainforest – cover about 620,000 hectares (1.5m acres). Indigenous leaders welcomed the move, but said more areas needed protection. Lula, who took office in January, has […]
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By Henri Astier BBC News Cuba’s communist government has cancelled Monday’s traditional May Day parade because of acute fuel shortages. Every year hundreds of thousands of people are bussed in from across the island to fill Havana’s Revolution Square on International Workers’ Day. It is the first time since the 1959 revolution that the celebrations […]
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BBC- Santiago Peña of Paraguay’s ruling conservative Colorado Party has won the presidential election, beating a centre-left challenger. With almost all ballots counted, Mr Peña, an economist, got more than 42%, electoral officials say. Efraín Alegre, candidate of the Concertación Nacional coalition, had nearly 28%. He later admitted defeat. The Colorado Party has dominated the […]
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By Lyse Doucet BBC Chief international correspondent, Port Sudan In the dead of night, as HMS Al Diriyah approached Sudan’s coast, Saudi officers flicked on sweeping search lights to secure safe passage for their warship into a harbour rapidly transforming into a major evacuation and humanitarian hub in Sudan’s deepening crisis. Even at 2am two […]
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Leaked documents reveal the GOP megadonor held dual citizenship in St. Kitts and Nevis as he lavished the Supreme Court justice with gifts. by Jason Paladino, Ken Klippenstein HARLAN CROW, the billionaire GOP donor who paid for luxury travel on his private jet and yacht for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, was a dual citizen of the […]
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BY DAN EHRLICH Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was in the news recently for declaring a “new world order” is imminent out of the Ukraine war. If he’s talking about a world order based on nuclear terrorism from a few barbaric nations he may have a valid point. Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russian […]
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Five of the Cameroonians rescued from the March 28 boat disaster remain at large after escaping from a detention facility in St Kitts where they were being held. Nine Cameroonians busted out of the community centre just outside Basseterre yesterday. Four have since been found. A total of 14 migrants were rescued after their boat […]
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A&B Observer- The Antigua and Barbuda government has apparently backpedalled on an agreement for Cameroonians rescued in the March 28 boat disaster to be returned from St Kitts. This is according to a statement from the Ministry of National Security in the neighbouring island. The St Kitts authorities claim that after initially agreeing to accept […]
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Ukraine says it’s preparing for a counteroffensive China flies a combat drone around Taiwan US officials lead urgent rescue talks for First Republic Bank. Plus, why anti-monarchists are looking forward to King Charles’ coronation. Today’s Top News Rescuers carry a body covered with a bag at the site of a residential building hit by a […]
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