Nov 16 (Reuters) – The Dominican Republic is stepping up deportations of Haitians and is creating a police unit focused on foreigners, fueling tensions between the two Caribbean nations whose relations have for decades been marred by migration disputes. Dominican President Luis Abinader last week issued a decree calling for stepped up migration protocols enforcement […]
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Image source, Guatemala PoliceImage caption, Police found 166 items in the car, most of which are thought to be authentic pre-Hispanic artefacts By Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News Police in Guatemala have arrested a man and a woman from the United States who were transporting more than 150 Maya artefacts in their car. An archaeologist said […]
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Image source, EPA Emotional supporters cheered and sang when Lula appeared By Georgina Rannard Climate reporter in Sharm el-Sheikh BBC Brazil is back, president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has told rapturous crowds at the UN climate summit COP27 in Egypt. Walking into a room of supporters singing his name, Lula promised to restore the […]
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The Reuters Daily Briefing Wednesday, November 16, 2022 by Linda Noakes Hello Here’s what you need to know. Trump could exploit a legal gray area to funnel millions into his 2024 bid, UK inflation hits a 41-year high, and how FTX’s Bankman-Fried begged for a rescue Make sense of how companies and governments are grappling […]
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The FBI is in talks with Bahamian authorities to extradite the 30-year-old crypto founder. According to a report by Daily Mail, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is planning to bring Sam Bankman-Fried to the US for questioning and is speaking with Bahamian authorities to this effect. Notably, the Daily Mail report cites a Bloomberg story […]
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By Leo Jakobson The Caribbean island nation’s prime minister said that the country is looking into becoming the third nation, after El Salvador and the Central African Republic, to adopt a cryptocurrency. The tiny Caribbean nation of St. Kitts and Nevis is considering adopting Bitcoin Cash as a legal tender, its prime minister said. Speaking […]
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The UN and Haitian officials called for international assistance to respond to an outbreak of cholera that the World Health Organization has warned puts hundreds of thousands of people across the Caribbean nation at risk. In a statement on Tuesday, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA) appealed for $145.6m to help […]
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By Jake Spring SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov 16 (Reuters) – Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva got a warm welcome at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt on Wednesday, where he was to make his first speech abroad since being elected as the Amazon nation’s next president. Lula has vowed to recommit the rainforest nation […]
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By Kate Chappell and Brian Ellsworth KINGSTON, Nov 15 (Reuters) – Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Tuesday declared a state of public emergency in parts of the capital Kingston and in some central and western parishes in an attempt to control rising crime linked to gang violence. States of emergency give authorities increased powers, […]
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Summary Aims to have principles, policies in place by COP28 Loss and damage fund proves sticking point at talks Developed nations want to move slower, consider options SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov 15 (Reuters) – The G77 bloc of developing countries and China are proposing the establishment of a new ‘loss and damage’ fund to provide […]
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