By Dave Sherwood and Nelson Acosta HAVANA, April 19 (Reuters) – Cuban lawmakers on Wednesday easily re-elected Miguel Diaz-Canel as president for a second term as the country faces one of the biggest social and economic crisis since Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution. Diaz-Canel, leader of the Communist Party – the country’s only recognized political movement […]
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By Micaiah Morgan CNW Reports are that a Florida boat captain was killed on Sunday after his boat was believed to have been struck by lightning, officials said. He has been identified as 39-year-old Peter Strong of West Melbourne. A passenger was also injured. According to a statement from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation […]
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Fox settled a defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million A UN report says India is set to overtake China to become the world’s most populous country, Porn on the Kindle app has prompted warnings from Google and App Today’s Top News Dominion CEO John Poulos and lawyers speak to the media, Delaware […]
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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr Terrence Drew on Tuesday said his government is continuing to monitor the situation in Haiti where the island’s Honorary Consul, Harold Marzouka Jr had been kidnapped over the weekend. Prime Minister Drew, who is in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad attending a two-day regional symposium […]
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SAN SALVADOR, April 18 (Reuters) – Police in Mexico City arrested one of the most wanted leaders of the notorious Mara Salvatrucha gang accused of multiple crimes in the United States, officials said on Tuesday, in a fresh blow to one of Central America’s most violent criminal groups. Jose Wilfredo Ayala, 55, was arrested after […]
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MEXICO CITY, April 18 (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Tuesday accused the Pentagon of spying on his government following leaks in U.S. media, and said he would begin classifying information from the armed forces to protect national security. His comments came several days after the Washington Post reported on apparent tensions […]
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By Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News A French court has cleared Air France and Airbus of charges of involuntary manslaughter over a deadly crash in June 2009 which killed all 228 people on board. The Airbus A330 operated by Air France stalled during a storm and plunged into the Atlantic Ocean. The court said even if […]
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By Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News Police in Latin America have seized cocaine and other drugs worth $5bn (£4bn) in an operation lasting three weeks and spanning 15 countries. They also seized more than 8,000 illicit firearms and carried out almost 15,000 arrests. Police forces from Mexico in the north to Argentina in the south exchanged […]
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By Bernd Debusmann BBC News, in court Fox News has settled a defamation lawsuit from the voting machine company, Dominion, over its reporting of the 2020 presidential election. In a last-minute settlement before trial, the network agreed to pay $787.5m (£634m) – about half of the $1.6bn initially sought by Dominion. Dominion argued its business […]
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by Saul Elbein THE HILL Tornadoes are becoming more frequent in populated parts of the United States and are often occurring as damaging clusters — a development seen in recent deadly outbreaks from Alabama to Michigan. The number, damage and deadliness of individual tornadoes has held roughly steady over the past 50 years, federal experts […]
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