By Will Grant in Mexico & Kathryn Armstrong in London BBC News The US has announced plans to open new migrant processing centres in Colombia and Guatemala as part of efforts to reduce undocumented immigration. The regional facilities will process thousands of claims a month, with pathways for legal migration expanded. The number of deportations […]
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The ceremony to swear in the Premier of the British Virgin Islands, Natalio D. Wheatley, and Ministers of Government took place on Tuesday, April 25, one day after the 2023 General Election, which observers described as “well-administered”. His Excellency the Governor Mr. John J. Rankin CMG swore in the members of the new Government after […]
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Today’s Top News A satellite image shows Novofedorivka with annotated trenching operations, in Zaporizhzhia region, April 11, 2023. Capella Space/Handout via REUTERS Russia digs in When Ukraine’s military paused to regroup towards the end of 2022, extensive Russian fortifications designed to slow any Ukrainian advances started to spring up along, behind and sometimes far removed […]
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United Nations (United States) (AFP) – Gang violence in crisis-torn Haiti is expanding at “an alarming rate” in areas previously considered quite safe, the UN’s envoy to the country told a Security Council meeting Wednesday. Maria Isabel Salvador said that since her predecessor last briefed the 15-member council in January there had been a “shocking […]
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By Richard Roth and Hira Humayun, CNN s CNN — Haiti’s crime rate has more than doubled since last year, as the Caribbean island nation faces widespread insecurity and gang violence, new data has revealed. More than 1,600 incidents including homicide, rape, kidnapping, and lynchings were reported in the first quarter of 2023, up from […]
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MEXICO CITY, April 26 (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said in a video message posted on Wednesday that he briefly blacked out in a meeting in Yucatan state this past Sunday due to complications with a COVID-19 infection and was flown to Mexico City for treatment. He said his heart and brain […]
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By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA, April 26 (Reuters) – Brazil’s Congress on Wednesday opened an inquiry into the Jan. 8 storming of key government buildings in the capital by violent demonstrators who denied the electoral victory of the recently inaugurated President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. In a joint session of its two chambers, […]
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By Marianna Parraga, Ana Isabel Martinez and Dave Sherwood HOUSTON/MEXICO CITY/HAVANA, April 26 (Reuters) – Cuba increasingly is turning to Russia and Mexico for oil to ease an acute shortage of diesel and gasoline and supplement dwindling supplies of Venezuelan crude and fuel, according to shipping data and sources. Venezuela for more than two […]
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By Nadine Yousif BBC News A Canadian socialite has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of a police chief in Belize. Jasmine Hartin, the former partner of Andrew Ashcroft – the son of UK businessman Lord Michael Ashcroft – was arrested and charged with the deadly shooting of superintendent Henry Jemmott two years ago. Police at […]
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ney Market Data Companies Economy Technology of Business CEO Secrets Global By Stefania Gozzer BBC Business Daily reporter, Peru “I arrived at this farm without knowing what a blueberry plant was,” says Aurelio Ortiz. A farming supervisor, Mr Ortiz is speaking as he oversees the harvest at Sunberries Field, a blueberry plantation in the south […]
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