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Amazon Jungle: Man Survives 31 Days by Eating Worms

By Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News A Bolivian man has described how he managed to survive for 31 days in the Amazon jungle after he got lost. Jhonattan Acosta, 30, got separated from his four friends while out hunting in northern Bolivia. He says he drank rainwater collected in his shoes and ate worms and insects […]

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Argentina’s Power Largely Restored After Fire Hits National Grid

Image source, AFPImage caption, A woman buys water at a shop in the dark in Buenos Aires By Will Grant & Alys Davies BBC News, Mexico and London Power has largely been restored in Argentina after more than half of the country was left without electricity for several hours. More than 20 million people in […]

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Opposition Vows Court Challenge as Tinubu Wins Nigerian Presidency

By Stephanie Busari, Nimi Princewill, Bethlehem Feleke, Larry Madowo and Jessie Yeung, CNN Lagos, Nigeria CNN  —  A Nigerian opposition party has said it will launch a legal challenge after Bola Ahmed Tinubu was on Wednesday declared the winner of Nigeria’s controversial presidential elections. Tinubu, 70, represents the ruling All Progressives Congress party, which received […]

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Number of Children Without Critical Social Protection Increasing Globally

Joint ILO-UNICEF report Multiple crises set to plunge more children into poverty creating an urgent need to scale-up social protection, new joint ILO-UNICEF report warns   GENEVA / NEW YORK (ILO News) – The number of children without access to social protection is increasing year-on-year, leaving them at risk of poverty, hunger and discrimination, according […]

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CDB Head Proposes Air, Sea Option to Get Regional Transportation Going Again

by Marlon Madden (Barbados Today) President of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) Dr Hyginus Gene Leon has put forward a “two-stage process” for building out an effective air and sea transportation system in the region. He proposes that “as an immediate solution” to the region’s transportation woes, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders should come together to […]

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Nevis Premier Brantley Supports Debate on Haitian Migration, But Feels It’s Not Attracting Enough Attention

by Kevon Browne St. Kitts and Nevis (WINN): The Premier of Nevis, Hon. Mark Brantley said that he welcomes more debate on the Haitian migration situation the region is facing as the CARICOM country grapples with gang violence, health crises, economic turmoil and political instability, as it is not attracting sufficient attention. “By all accounts, […]

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Jamaica Prime Minister Holness Heads Special Mission to Haiti

(Jamaica Observer) Kingston, Jamaica- Prime Minister Andrew Holness left the island Monday morning to lead a special Caricom mission to Haiti. He is expected to return to later this evening. In a release on Monday, Jamaica House stated that representatives from The Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago as well as the Caricom Secretariat will be a […]

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Rights Group Claims 90+Trinidadians Unlawfully Dertained as IS Suspects in Syria

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, (CMC) – Over 90 nationals of Trinidad and Tobago, including at least 56 children, are unlawfully detained in life-threatening conditions as Islamic State (ISIS), a human rights group said Tuesday. Accusing the Trinidad and Tobago government of taking almost no action to help the detainees return to the country, the international […]

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WORLD VIEW: Greece head-on train crash kills and injures dozens, New Calif. storm, Kobe Bryant lawsuit, More

The AP Wire Head-on train crash in Greece kills 36, injures at least 85 TEMPE, Greece (AP) — A passenger train carrying hundreds of people, including many university students returning home from vacation, collided at high speed with an oncoming…Read More As court debates student loans, borrowers see disconnect WASHINGTON (AP) — Arguments at the […]

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Cuba 2022: Some 10,000 Workers in the Electricity Sector Left Their Jobs

  8,089 workers left their jobs in the first nine months of last year. (Escambray) 14ymedio, Havana, 27 February 2023 — Every day, more workers in the state electricity sector leave their jobs in Cuba. In the first six months of 2022, 21 a day left their jobs; in the following three months, while the […]

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