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US Airman to Appear in Court Over Intelligence Leak

By David Willis & Alys Davies, BBC Los Angeles and London   A 21-year-old US airman will appear in court on Friday in connection with the leak of highly classified military documents about the Ukraine war and other national security issues. Jack Teixeira was arrested by the FBI at his family home in Dighton, rural […]

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How Caribbean Medical Schools Are Increasing Diversity In Healthcare

Each year, more than 55,000 people submit applications to allopathic medical schools. However, only about 22,700 seats are available, meaning nearly 60% of applicants don’t earn a spot. What happens to those thousands of applicants who aren’t successful? Some might have also applied and potentially been accepted to osteopathic medical schools or pursued another career […]

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For Haitians in the DR:  It’s A Frontier of Danger and Despair

Globe and Mail- On a bridge between Haiti and the Dominican Republic – the Caribbean’s poorest country and its largest economy – would-be migrants tell The Globe about dawn raids, extortions, mass deportations and other hardships Adrian Morrow Photography by Melissa Tait The Globe and Mail Ouanaminthe, Haiti Published April 13, 2023 A caged bus […]

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Haitian-American Commissioner Daniela Jean Named to National Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials

  By CNW Contributor Last month, Haitian-American Commissioner Daniela Jean of the City of North Miami Beach, was appointed to the National Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials (NBC-LEO), where she will serve as the Florida Regional Director. NBC-LEO is a group within the National League of Cities, an organization of city leaders that are […]

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St Lucia Monitoring Increased Incidence of Dengue & Chikungunya Cases

By CMC News Health authorities in St Lucia say they are monitoring alerts from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) regarding the increased incidence of dengue and Chikungunya cases in the Americas including the Caribbean. They said that the number of dengue cases doubled last year compared with 2021 and that “the same increasing trends […]

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Brazil Could Suspend Social Media Sites Over School Violence Content

Reuters April 12 (Reuters) – Brazil could fine or suspend social media companies that do not effectively regulate content related to school violence, Justice Minister Flavio Dino said on Wednesday. The new measures, set to be published through an ordinance on Wednesday, seek to curb threats of school violence in the country, which have soared […]

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US, Cuba Discuss Immigration as COVID Border Rules End

WASHINGTON, April 12 (Reuters) – U.S. and Cuban officials discussed migration issues on Wednesday as the Biden administration braces for the end of COVID-era border restrictions that have blocked Cubans in recent months from crossing into the United States from Mexico. The high-level meeting in Washington followed one held in Havana in November and comes […]

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WORLD VIEW: North Korea Missile Launch, Russia’s Navalny Very Sick in Prison, China’s Exports Rise, More

North Korea launches another ballistic missile Russia: Navalny’s spokeswoman says he has a mystery ailment China’s exports rise unexpectedly. The boy wizard Harry Potter is headed to streaming. Today’s Top News People watch a news report on North Korea firing a ballistic missile of intermediate range or longer, at a railway station in Seoul, April […]

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Ecuador Gangs: Hunt for Gunmen Who Killed 9 Port Workers

By Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News Police in Ecuador are searching for a group of around 30 gunmen who killed nine men working at the fishing port of Esmeraldas on Tuesday. The heavily armed gunmen arrived both by sea and by land and appeared to fire on the workers indiscriminately. Ecuador’s Interior Minister Juan Zapata said […]

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Gran Chaco: Will a New Road Improve or Destroy the ‘Green Hell’? Published

Image caption, Agronomist Dr Egon Neufeld is a successful Mennonite farmer in the Gran Chaco By Jane Chambers Filadelfia, Paraguay “A new Panama Canal”: that is how Egon Neufeld describes the Bioceanic Highway, a massive transnational infrastructure project which aims to link Chile’s Pacific coast with Brazil’s Atlantic coastline. A wealthy landowner in Paraguay, Dr […]

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