The first horn of the 2023 Pure Grenada Sailing Week blew this morning at 10am as the fleet, 30 boats strong, adjusted their sails to a gentle northeasterly 10 to 12-knot breeze. All appeared in good form as they prepared to carry 200 crew over the start line in Tyrell Bay and along the same […]
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HAVANA (AP) — The Rolo González sisters walked out of Nicaragua’s main airport and peered out onto a sea of young men. The Central American “coyotes” squinted back, trying to find the people they would smuggle to the United States. These were the first steps that 19-year-old Merlyn and 24-year-old Melanie took outside of Cuba. […]
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By Brian Ellsworth Jan 30 (Reuters) – Haitians in the United States are facing enormous pressure to help family and friends under a U.S. migration program announced this month that may help some people escape Haiti’s escalating violence but is also putting strain on the nation’s diaspora. Giubert St Fort, a South Florida resident […]
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BRASILIA, Jan 30 (Reuters) – Germany on Monday pledged 200 million euros ($217 million) to help Brazil defend the Amazon rainforest, a global ecosystem devastated during years of rule under former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. The sum, in credits and donations, was announced in the capital Brasilia where German Chancellor Olaf Scholz became the first […]
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Reuters [1/5] German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva hold a joint news conference at the Planalto Palace, in Brasilia, Brazil January 30, 2023. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino BRASILIA, Jan 30 (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Monday said Moscow made a mistake invading Ukraine, but speaking alongside German […]
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By Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News Police in Brazil are searching for one of Rio’s most dangerous drug lords, Jean Carlos dos Santos, after he broke out of jail with two fellow inmates. The three escaped from Bangu prison by tying bed-sheets together and lowering themselves from a prison window to a rubbish dump. Jean Carlos […]
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By Madeline Halpert BBC News, New York Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro has applied for a six-month US tourist visa, his lawyer has told the BBC. Mr Bolsonaro has been staying in Florida since 30 December. The former president plans to stay in the US while immigration officials process the visa. He is under investigation […]
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by Joseph Choi The Biden administration on Monday announced that the COVID-19 public health emergency, which has been in place since January 2020, is set to end on May 11. “The COVID-19 national emergency and public health emergency (PHE) were declared by the Trump Administration in 2020. They are currently set to expire on […]
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By Caroline Davies in Peshawar and Frances Mao in Singapore BBC News The death toll has risen to at least 92 people after a mosque suicide bombing which targeted policemen in the city of Peshawar in Pakistan. The mosque is within a high-security police headquarters area and a probe is under way into how the […]
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Hello Pro-Kremlin activists in Germany gave money for Russian army gear, Adani’s market loss swells to $70 billion, and Toyota defends its title as the world’s top-selling auomaker by Linda Noakes World News Police officers control the crowd after a blast in a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan, January 30, 2023. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz A […]
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