DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — French naval forces in January seized thousands of assault rifles, machine guns and anti-tank missiles in the Gulf of Oman coming from Iran and heading to Yemen’s Houthi rebels, officials said Thursday. While Iran denied being involved, images of the weapons released by the U.S. military’s Central Command showed […]
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Hello Air raid sirens sound in Kyiv during a visit by European leaders, Republicans oust Ilhan Omar from a high-profile House committee, and Apple forecasts another drop in revenue by Linda Noakes U.S. News A balloon flies over Billings, Montana, February 1, 2023 in this picture obtained from social media A Chinese spy […]
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by Eulana Weekes St. Kitts and Nevis (WINN): “Celebrating 400 years of Ancestral Creativity and Ingenuity” is the theme under which the 2023 History and Heritage Month in St. Kitts and Nevis is being observed. Head of the Brimstone Hill Heritage Society, Mr Percy Hanley, said the theme was chosen because this year marked a […]
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — A Guyanese court handed down death sentences for two men found guilty of high seas piracy attacks that killed seven fishermen off the nation’s coast in 2018, and authorities said they have broken the back of a deadly group that preyed on fishermen for years. Nakool Manohar, 45, and Premnauth Persaud, […]
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By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN PUERTO PEÑASCO, Mexico (AP) — Mexico was pushed to accelerate its turn toward renewable energy after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year drove a sharp increase in global energy costs, Mexico Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said late Thursday. Ebrard made the comments after taking dozens of foreign diplomats to see a […]
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14ymedio, Madrid— The US charge d’affaires in Havana, Benjamin Ziff, recounted in an interview with the Associated Press that talking about human rights with the Cuban authorities is very complicated and that there have been arrests of opponents with whom his embassy wanted to meet, although he declined to give names. “It is our number […]
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By Vivian Sequera CARACAS, Feb 2 (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday lashed out at U.S. licenses barring companies doing business with sanctioned Venezuelan state firms from paying cash to his administration. Washington last year authorized U.S. and European firms to resume taking Venezuelan crude oil on the condition no funds be paid […]
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By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the United States of America and the Organization of American States. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London and Massey College in the University of Toronto) All the countries of ‘the Americas.’ i.e., those in […]
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A firefighter works, as a wildfire burns parts of rural areas in Quillon, Chile, February 2, 2023 REUTERS/Juan Gonzalez SANTIAGO, Feb 2 (Reuters) – Wildfires have consumed more than 750 hectares (1,853 acres) of forest in Chile, destroying houses and threatening farms and forests as the South American nation faces a summer heatwave across southern […]
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BRASILIA, Feb 3 (Reuters) – Brazil’s federal police on Friday carried out fresh raids as part of a probe into the Jan. 8 insurrection, when supporters of former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro stormed government buildings in Brasilia. Police said in a statement they were serving three preventive arrest warrants and 14 search and seizure warrants […]
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