It’s a busy day in Beijing, where Emmanuel Macron and Ursula von der Leyen started a series of meetings with Chinese leaders, and top Iranian and Saudi envoys met in a restoration of diplomatic ties. Plus, Apple says ‘Hello Mumbai’ with its first India store launch. Today’s Top News Diplomacy under the spotlight French President […]

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Two Guyanese women were last night taken into custody at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, St James in connection with the seizure of cocaine. The contraband was found in their checked luggage during a routine check by security personnel. The cocaine weighed a total of 21 pounds. The women were booked to board […]

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Jamaica Observer-  ST CATHERINE- A man and a woman were shot dead by gunmen at Railway Lane in Spanish Town, St Catherine Wednesday afternoon. They have been identified as 31-year-old Orlando McGregor and 45-year-old Marlene Smith from Old Harbour in the parish. Another man was injured in the attack It was reported that around 2:30 […]

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday that Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands will receive a total of nearly $108 million to improve drinking water infrastructure across the U.S. territories. Puerto Rico is slated to get $62 million and the U.S. Virgin Islands nearly $46 million. The […]

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MEXICO CITY, April 5 (Reuters) – Leaders of 11 Latin American and Caribbean countries agreed to work to outline measures seeking to tame inflation in the region, including better conditions for trade, according to a statement published by Mexico’s presidential office Wednesday. Agreements reached include the creation of a working group of government representatives aimed […]

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OTTAWA, April 5 (Reuters) – Canada’s federal government and a group of Indigenous people have reached a revised C$23.34 billion ($17.35 billion) agreement to compensate First Nations children and families for the decades of harm caused by a discriminatory welfare system. The terms of the deal, announced by the Canadian government in a statement on […]

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  BRASILIA, April 5 (Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro appeared at the federal police headquarters on Wednesday to testify in an investigation into jewelry and gifts given in 2021 to the then-president and his wife by the king of Saudi Arabia. Police closed the street outside the building. One of the jewelry sets […]

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By Nelson Acosta HAVANA/HOUSTON, April 5 (Reuters) – Lines for fuel in Cuba´s capital Havana snaked for blocks on Wednesday as frustrated citizens waited for hours, and in some cases days, to fill their tanks, the latest chapter in a growing economic crisis that is rattling the Caribbean island nation. Public transportation, tourists and taxi […]

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By Antoinette Radford BBC News While Donald Trump is the first former US president to be charged with a criminal offence, elsewhere many other ex-leaders have found themselves in the dock. And as some of these cases show, prosecution for alleged crimes has not proved to be a barrier to getting back into power. So […]

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By Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News At least four young children have been killed by a man wielding a hatchet in a kindergarten in the city of Blumenau in southern Brazil, local officials say. Another four children were injured by the 25-year-old man who entered the creche at around 09:00 local time (12:00 GMT) on Wednesday. […]

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