According to local media, Pedro Briones was shot dead by gunmen on a motorcycle at his home in northern Esmeraldas province, a notoriously lawless area. His killing comes just five days after presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was gunned down in the capital, Quito. Ecuador’s murder rate has surged as local gangs have forged alliances with […]
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Two American tourists were found sleeping off the effects of a night of drinking high up in the Eiffel Tower in Paris, after dodging security the night before, the management of the cast-iron monument said today. Security guards roused the men “in the early morning” as they were making their rounds before the French landmark’s […]
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Donald J. Trump, who is again running for election as President of the United States, has been indicted on charges of “racketeering” and a string of election crimes after a two-year investigation into his efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat by current president Joe Biden in the southern state of Georgia. This is the […]
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Ukrainian officials said om Monday that a Russian bombardment on the southern port city of Odesa injured at least three people and that a supermarket was badly damaged by falling debris from intercepted missiles. The military said air defenses downed all 15 drones Russia used in the attack, as well as eight sea-based missiles, but […]
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On 25th and 26th August many items and products will have a reduced VAT tax rate of 5%, the SKN Dept. of Inland Revenue has announced. The department seems to be going all out to encourage islanders to spend as much money as possible on those two days. Here’s what it says! Get ready for […]
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A British couple who say they flew across the Atlantic Ocean so that the wife could give birth on a Caribbean beach are now stranded in Grenada with their four-month-old baby and feel like they are prisoners, because they cannot leave until certain formalities over the registration of the birth of the child–apparently born on […]
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Just hours after stating that they were open to discussions with leaders of other West African nations to resolve the issues of regional instability, Niger’s military coup leaders say they intend to prosecute deposed President Mohamed Bazoum on charges of “high treason” and undermining state security. This comes as a group of West African nations […]
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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says he is no longer training for a rumoured cage fight with Elon Musk, claiming the Tesla electric car boss is not serious about the contest. The rival billionaire tech bosses apparently agreed to a scrap in June, when Musk tweeted he was “up for a cage fight”. Zuckerberg, who manages […]
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The Australian woman who cooked a meal of beef Wellington that contained mushrooms that is believed to have killed three in-laws says she bought the fungi both at a supermarket and an unidentfied Asian grocery in Melbourne, and was herself hospitalized after eating the meal. She could not recall the exact location of the Asian […]
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The official death count for the fire that destroyed the town of Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui has now risen to 93, and local officials have warned that the aftermath of the fire had left a “highly toxic” environment and that the water supply in the area may also be undrinkable due to […]
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