By CMC News Guyana is contributing $100,000 to help relief efforts in Turkey and neighboring Syria affected by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake earlier this month, President Irfaan Ali said. He said the donation will be split equally between the earthquake-hit countries. “The contributions will be channeled through the United Nations,” a government statement said. The decision […]

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By CMC News The Trinidad High Court has blocked the deportation of five Cameroonians seeking asylum, pending the outcome of their lawsuit against the Chief Immigration Officer and the Office of the Attorney General. The interim injunction was granted by High Court Judge Carol Gobin just before midnight on Tuesday, less than four hours before […]

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By MAURICIO SAVARESE and DAVID BILLER AP A masked reveler participates in a street pre-carnival party by the “Cordao do Boitata” Block, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023. Revelers are taking to the streets for the open-air block parties, leading up to Carnival’s official Feb. 17th opening. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado) RIO DE […]

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  Reuters Mayoral employees walk through a poor neighborhood during a day of food aid delivery, amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Bogota, Colombia April 21, 2020. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez BOGOTA, Feb 16 (Reuters) – More than 15 million Colombians suffer moderate or severe food insecurity, equivalent to almost a third of the […]

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by Juhakenson Blaise  HAITIAN TIMES   PORT-AU-PRINCE — Authorities have killed  16 suspected bandits and arrested another 369 in an Haitian National Police (PNH) operation dubbed ‘Tornado I.’ Agency spokesperson Garry Desrosiers said the operation, launched following the killings of 15 PNH officers in January, is to arrest the gang leader responsible for the assassinations. […]

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By Sybille De La Hamaide  A French farmer looks at ducks in their enclosure at a poultry farm in Castelnau-Tursan, France, January 24, 2023. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe CASTELNAU-TURSAN, France, Feb 17 (Reuters) – French duck farmer Herve Dupouy has culled his flock four times since 2015 to stop the spread of bird flu but as a […]

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NASSAU/PORT-AU-PRINCE, Feb 16 (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday said he would deploy Royal Canadian Navy vessels off the coast of Haiti in the coming weeks, in the midst of the island’s humanitarian and security crisis. “We are working closely together to help,” Trudeau said in a speech at a conference in […]

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Feb 16 (Reuters) – Jamaica’s anti-corruption agency said on Thursday that the prime minister will not face any charges after it investigated a possible conflict of interest around government contracts awarded to a construction company between 2006 and 2009. The chief of the Integrity Commission said its leadership had ruled that no changes would be […]

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By Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News A court in Nicaragua has stripped 94 dissidents of their citizenship. Among those declared “traitors to the fatherland” are award-winning writer Sergio Ramírez, poet Gioconda Belli and Catholic bishop Silvio Báez. All 94 are outspoken critics of President Daniel Ortega, who is in his fourth consecutive term in office. They […]

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by Lauren Sforza This picture taken on September 28, 2022 shows a computer monitor displaying magnified donor sperm at Keio University Hospital in Tokyo. (Photo by Yuichi YAMAZAKI / AFP) Lab results show that a new “on-demand” male birth control drug can temporarily prevent sperm from maturing and swimming in mice. The study, which was […]

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