By JAVIER CORDOBA LIMON, Costa Rica (AP) — In this colorful Caribbean port, where cruise ship passengers are whisked to jungle adventures in Costa Rica’s interior, locals try to be home by dark and police patrol with high-caliber guns in the face of soaring drug violence. Costa Rica logged a record 657 homicides last year […]
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April 2 (Reuters) – Ecuador has authorized the carrying and use of guns by civilians, President Guillermo Lasso said in a televised broadcast, citing rising crime and insecurity in the Andean country. Lasso, a conservative former banker, has been fighting to tackle rising crime and violence in the streets and in prisons – where hundreds […]
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By Timothy Gardner ADJUNTAS, Puerto Rico, March 31 (Reuters) – For U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Graholm, the transformation of Puerto Rico’s power grid to solar and other renewable power, after hurricanes wiped it out in 2017 and 2022, is an imperative that goes beyond addressing climate change. When the lights go out in the U.S. […]
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By David Shepardson April 1 (Reuters) – Police in Canada on Saturday identified two victims among eight bodies recovered from two families who died this week trying to enter the United States from Canada by boat across the St. Lawrence River. The Akwesasne Mohawk Police Service said 28-year-old Florin Iordache died and had two Canadian […]
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By Sofia Menchu GUATEMALA CITY, April 2 (Reuters) – Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen completed a three-day trip to Guatemala on Sunday where she offered more cooperation with Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei’s government, one of Taiwan’s few allies in the world. Tsai’s tour, which will take her to Belize on Sunday afternoon, comes a week […]
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By Linda Pressly BBC News, Mexico and California Fentanyl is a deadly, synthetic opioid, 50 times more powerful than heroin. Americans are dying from it at such an alarming rate, that the US has approved the sale of naloxone – an overdose-reversing drug – without a prescription. But fentanyl’s trail of destruction begins further south. […]
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By Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News Online Latin America editor When Orlando José Maldonado Pérez sent his family in Venezuela a message a week ago on Sunday, he was upbeat and full of hope. The 26-year-old had arrived in Ciudad Juárez, the Mexican city just across the US border from El Paso, Texas, just four days […]
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By Micaiah Morgan Authorities in St. Petersburg, Florida, launched a search on Thursday for a 2-year-old boy who went missing after his mother was found dead in her apartment. Police reported that Taylen Mosley could not be found after his 20-year-old mother Pashun Jeffery, was found dead in “ a very violent homicide scene” on […]
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US State Department deputy spokesperson confirms kidnapping, declines to give further details Two US citizens have been kidnapped in Haiti, the US State Department confirmed on Thursday. “I can confirm the kidnapping of two US citizens in Haiti,” Vedant Patel, principal deputy spokesperson, told reporters during his press briefing. “We are in regular contact with […]
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