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The Reuters Daily Briefing Friday, December 9, 2022 by Linda Noakes Hello Here’s what you need to know. Brittney Griner lands in the U.S., Senator Kyrsten Sinema leaves the Democratic Party, and twenty oil tankers are halted near Istanbul Today’s biggest stories Servicemen of the Carpathian Sich Battalion are seen on a tank on a […]

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New research by Freedom House found that they can—under these conditions. Written By Laura Adams Natalia Forrat Zack Medow In 2022, anger over the death of a young woman detained by the Iranian regime’s morality police swelled into a mass antigovernment movement. In 2021, viral videos denouncing state repression and an economic crisis in Cuba […]

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By CMC News Prime Minister of St. Kitts/Nevis, Dr. Terrance Drew has written to the leader of the Dominica Labour Party (DLP) Roosevelt Skerrit congratulating him on his general election victory and praising him for his political success over the years and his contribution to his country and the region. Skerrit led his party to […]

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A man has been arrested over the killing of a former Aberdeen, Scotland hotel boss in St Lucia, according to local sources. Donnie McKinnon, 48, and his friend Peter Jackson, 72, had met for a drink on the balcony of Steve’s bar on Market Road, Soufriere when a masked gunman opened fire on Saturday, December […]

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Dec 8 (Reuters) – The United Nations’ sanction regime in Haiti in response to the gang violence and humanitarian crisis should be working by January 2023, the U.N. resident coordinator for the embattled Caribbean island nation said on Thursday. Speaking at a news briefing, Ulrika Richardson said the U.N. Security Council is still discussing possible […]

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By ERIC TUCKER, MATTHEW LEE and ZEKE MILLERtoday WASHINGTON (AP) — American basketball star Brittney Griner headed home Thursday night, freed from Russian prison in exchange for the U.S. releasing notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout in the culmination of an eight-month saga of high diplomacy and dashed hopes. But the U.S. failed to win […]

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By EDITH M. LEDERER UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Close to 60% of Haiti’s capital is dominated by gangs whose violence and sexual attacks have caused thousands to flee their homes, the U.N. humanitarian chief in the Caribbean nation said Thursday. Ulrika Richardson said that has left nearly 20,000 people in the capital facing “catastrophic famine-like […]

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HAVANA, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Cuba said on Thursday it had begun work with French telecoms operator Orange on an underwater cable that will link it to the island of Martinique in a bid to beef up the its connection to global internet and broadband corridors. The announcement comes one week after the Biden administration […]

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Reuters A child holds a flower, during a protest to demand justice for journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, who were murdered in the Amazon, in Brasilia, Brazil June 19, 2022. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino Dec 8 (Reuters) – An indigenous group from the area of the Amazon rainforest where British journalist Dom Phillips and […]

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