NEW YORK (CMC) – A United Nations committee on Friday called on countries in the Americas and the Caribbean to suspend expulsions of Haitians facing a chilling wave of violence. The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) estimated that 36,000 Haitians were expelled from other countries between January and March and expressed concern […]
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MIAMI (CMC) – The United States Coast Guard says it recently repatriated 82 people to Cuba following interdictions off Florida’s coast. The US Coast Guard on Friday said a ‘good samaritan’ notified Coast Guard District Seven watchstanders of a migrant vessel about 45 miles south of Marathon, Florida. It also said Coast Guard Cutter Edgar […]
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HOUSTON, April 28 (Reuters) – Chevron Corp (CVX.N) has stepped up sales of Venezuelan crude oil to rival U.S. refiners, adding PBF Energy Inc (PBF.N) and Marathon Petroleum Corp (MPC.N) to its list of customers for the crude, vessel tracking and loading schedules showed. U.S. Gulf Coast refiners, which historically processed Venezuelan oil, have shown […]
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MEXICO CITY, April 30 (Reuters) – A judge in northern Mexico has ordered the head of the national migration authority charged over a fire late last month that killed 40 migrants at a holding center in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, authorities said on Sunday. After a lengthy hearing, the court in Ciudad Juarez […]
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BBC-Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has decreed six new indigenous reserves, banning mining and restricting commercial farming there. The lands – including a vast area of Amazon rainforest – cover about 620,000 hectares (1.5m acres). Indigenous leaders welcomed the move, but said more areas needed protection. Lula, who took office in January, has […]
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By Henri Astier BBC News Cuba’s communist government has cancelled Monday’s traditional May Day parade because of acute fuel shortages. Every year hundreds of thousands of people are bussed in from across the island to fill Havana’s Revolution Square on International Workers’ Day. It is the first time since the 1959 revolution that the celebrations […]
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BBC- Santiago Peña of Paraguay’s ruling conservative Colorado Party has won the presidential election, beating a centre-left challenger. With almost all ballots counted, Mr Peña, an economist, got more than 42%, electoral officials say. Efraín Alegre, candidate of the Concertación Nacional coalition, had nearly 28%. He later admitted defeat. The Colorado Party has dominated the […]
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By Lyse Doucet BBC Chief international correspondent, Port Sudan In the dead of night, as HMS Al Diriyah approached Sudan’s coast, Saudi officers flicked on sweeping search lights to secure safe passage for their warship into a harbour rapidly transforming into a major evacuation and humanitarian hub in Sudan’s deepening crisis. Even at 2am two […]
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Leaked documents reveal the GOP megadonor held dual citizenship in St. Kitts and Nevis as he lavished the Supreme Court justice with gifts. by Jason Paladino, Ken Klippenstein HARLAN CROW, the billionaire GOP donor who paid for luxury travel on his private jet and yacht for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, was a dual citizen of the […]
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BY DAN EHRLICH Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was in the news recently for declaring a “new world order” is imminent out of the Ukraine war. If he’s talking about a world order based on nuclear terrorism from a few barbaric nations he may have a valid point. Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russian […]
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