By Dave Sherwood A woman walks to cast her vote at a polling station during the legislative elections in Havana, Cuba, March 26, 2023. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini HAVANA, March 26 (Reuters) – Upwards of 70% of eligible Cubans had cast ballots by late Sunday afternoon in an election for the 470 lawmakers who will represent them […]
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By Fabian Hamacher and Ann Wang TAOYUAN, Taiwan, March 27 (Reuters) – Former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou left for China on Monday on a landmark trip, saying he hoped to bring about peace and improve relations through the interactions of young people. Ma, in office from 2008-2016, will be the first former or current Taiwanese […]
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Three-time Formula 1 world champion Nelson Piquet has been ordered to pay five million Brazilian Reals (£780,000) for making racist and homophobic comments about Lewis Hamilton. The 70-year-old Brazilian used a racially offensive term in referring to Hamilton in an interview in 2021. Hamilton called for “archaic mindsets” to change after the footage surfaced. Piquet […]
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By Toby Luckhurst BBC News Every Sunday morning for nearly five decades, millions of Mexican families gathered around their televisions to watch Chabelo. The squeaky-voiced, short-wearing child character was played by Mexican actor, entertainer and businessman Xavier López Rodriguez, who died on Saturday at the age of 88. His children’s game show En Familia con […]
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) has warned that an escalation in violent rhetoric by former President Trump has the potential “to get someone killed.” Trump, who is under investigation by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) related to hush money payments to an adult film actress, had written hours earlier that charges brought against […]
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Police are investigating a shooting incident at Stapleton Village, that resulted in the death of two young men. Investigations have revealed so far that a group on men were playing cards in a yard when a lone gunman wearing a hoodie entered the yard and opened fire on them. Two of the men were shot […]
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By GEROLD ROZENBLAD PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) — A few hundred protesters gathered in Suriname’s capital on Friday to demand that the president of the South American country resign. They accused the administration of President Chan Santokhi of trying to postpone the 2025 general election, which can’t be organized until legislators amend an electoral law as […]
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By Anna-Catherine Brigida BUENOS AIRES, March 23 (Reuters) – An Argentina court on Thursday convicted two men for the rape and murder of 16-year-old Lucia Perez in 2016, a case that has become emblematic of a movement to fight back against violence against women and girls in the region. Perez’s murder in Mar del Plata […]
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BY JAY WEAVER Miami Herald A convicted Haitian drug trafficker pleaded guilty Friday to providing money to pay for weapons, food and lodging for Colombian commandos and others suspected of executing the fatal shooting of Haiti’s president, marking the first guilty plea in the murder conspiracy case in Miami federal court. Rodolphe Jaar, 50, who […]
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