By MAURICIO SAVARESEyesterday SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s government on Tuesday reported the 700,000th death from COVID-19 in the South American nation, which has the second most victims of the virus after the United States. Brazilian health experts say most people dying of COVID-19 in recent days are either unvaccinated or suffer from other debilitating […]
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By Nadine Yousif BBC News, Montreal Last year, nearly 40,000 migrants crossed into Canada at an unofficial border crossing at the end of a remote rural road in upstate New York – a record number – to seek asylum. Many are driven by the belief that the country is more welcoming than the US. But […]
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Summary Taiwan President Tsai leaves for New York China threatens retaliation if Tsai meets U.S. House Speaker No reason for China to overreact: senior U.S. officials Tsai also visiting Guatemala, Belize TAOYUAN, Taiwan/BEIJING, March 29 (Reuters) – External pressure will not stop Taiwan engaging with the world, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Wednesday as she […]
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LIMA, March 28 (Reuters) – Peruvian prosecutors are investigating President Dina Boluarte and former president Pedro Castillo for allegedly laundering money as part of a criminal organization, the attorney general’s office said on Twitter on Tuesday. The probe into the alleged crimes by Boluarte and Castillo is part of an ongoing investigation into alleged campaign […]
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By Bernd Debusmann Jr in El Paso, Texas For the last three nights, 21-year-old Dylan Torres Reyes has spent his nights on the pavement outside El Paso’s main bus terminal, shivering in the freezing Texas night. “It’s been very, very cold here, and this is all I’ve got to wear,” he told the BBC, pointing […]
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By Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News Search teams in Ecuador are combing the mud for survivors of a landslide that buried entire families in the mountains outside the town of Alausí. More than 60 people have been reported missing after tonnes of mud slid down the hillside in the Chimborazo region. Government officials said seven people […]
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David Olusoga: slavery and the Guardian – the ties that bind us Aamna Mohdin Community affairs correspondent The owner of the Guardian has issued an apology for the role the newspaper’s founders had in transatlantic slavery and announced a decade-long programme of restorative justice. The Scott Trust said it expected to invest more than £10m […]
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — After migrants in northern Mexico placed mattresses against the bars of their detention cell and set them on fire, guards quickly walked away and made no apparent attempt to release the men before smoke filled the room and killed 38 men, surveillance video showed Tuesday. Hours after the fire broke […]
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Sixteen individuals have been recovered following an incident at sea as St Kitts and Nevis Coast Guard sought to help 32 individuals aboard the vessel. According to the police, the St. Kitts/Nevis Coast Guard conducted a search and rescue operation for 32 individuals of an unknown nationality travelling on the vessel Jenna B. Sixteen of […]
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One of the guns used by the attacker to kill three students and three teachers at the Nashville, Tenn. church school Today’s Top News A child weeps while on the bus leaving The Covenant School, following a mass shooting at the school in Tennessee, March 27, 2023. Nicole Hester/USA Today Network via REUTERS US school […]
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