Thousands of Ecuadorian soldiers and police were involved in a dawn operation perform a massive shakedown in Guayaquil’s Prison 8 and remove notorious gang leader linked to the assassination of a presidential candidate to a maximum security jail. Guns, explosives, and even a working gallows were found and confiscated. Jose Adolfo Macias, known as “Fito” […]

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Kidnapped American nurse Alix Dorsanvail and her child were both said to be  “healthy and unharmed” after their release in Haiti— where cell phone data suggested they had been  held in an area controlled by a notoriously criminal gang, as details of the release emerged last Thursday. El Roi Haiti, the Christian non-profit led by […]

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Six people died by drowning after a boat carrying migrants from Afghanistan and Sudan sank in the English Channel, close to the coast of France. The French coast guard said the vessel got into difficulty in the sea near Calais in the early hours of Saturday morning. Fifty-nine people – many of them Afghans – […]

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It has been a mostly cold and wet summer so far in Britain, and everyone is complaining about the ever-increasing cost of food and everything else, but at least one thing is getting a bit cheaper–beer in pubs–enabling Brits to drown their sorrows with a pint, because alcoholic drinks will now be taxed according to […]

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The United States attorney general has named a special counsel in an ongoing investigation into President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden. This indicates that a criminal trial may be in the offing. A plea deal on tax and gun charges against the president’s son collapsed earlier this month. Hunter Biden had previously reached a deal […]

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The official number of known deaths from this week’s wildfires in Maui has now reached 80, local officials told reporters on Friday night. “Firefighters continue working to extinguish flare-ups and contain fires in Lahaina, Pulehu/Kihei and Upcountry Maui,” a press release said, as some residents are already attempting to move back into the devastated town. […]

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BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, August 11, 2023. The four awardees of the 2023-2024 Samal Duggins Finding Your Passion Scholarship programme were announced last week, Friday August 4, at a colourful ceremony at the La Cucina Italian Restaurant at the St. Kitts Marriott Resort in Frigate Bay, St. Kitts.. The four awardees each aged 11 years, who […]

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The United Kingdom has evacuated refugees and migrants from a residential barge floating in Portland harbour less than a week after they moved in, after potentially deadly Legionella bacteria was found in the water supply, a government spokesperson said this week. The UK had begun moving some people on to the large Bibby Stockholm barge […]

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President Dr Irfaan Ali says that the Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) signed between Guyana and the Dominican Republic this week are going to create significant value for both countries, positioning them as leaders in food and energy security beyond the Caribbean region. President Ali, who is leading a delegation to the Dominican Republic for an […]

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