PARIS, Sept 18 (Reuters) – France will recognise a state of natural disaster for Guadeloupe after heavy rain tied to the powerful storm Fiona caused flooding in the French Caribbean island, killing one man, President Emmanuel Macron said on Twitter on Sunday. “In the aftermath of storm Fiona my thoughts go to Guadeloupe, to our […]

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By Mica Rosenberg   Sept 19 (Reuters) – A Texas county sheriff is opening a criminal investigation into flights that carried dozens of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, from Texas last week, an act that Florida’s Republican governor took credit for and which the White House dubbed a political stunt. Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar […]

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  By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Sept 19 (Reuters) – The Biden administration will expand U.S. flights to Havana, adding 13 weekly American Airlines (AAL.O) departures from Miami and a weekly JetBlue (JBLU.O) departure from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the Transportation Department said on Monday. That is on top of the typical six daily American Airlines flights […]

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By James FitzGerald & Elsa Maishman BBC Minute Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Roads in the Dominican Republic have been blocked Hurricane Fiona is continuing to strengthen – threatening lives in parts of the Caribbean, say US forecasters. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) said the category two storm currently packing speeds of 110mph (175km/h) could […]

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A powerful earthquake has rocked Mexico’s western coast on the same day the country marked the anniversaries of two devastating quakes which killed thousands of people. The 7.6 magnitude quake hit the coastal states of Michoacan and Colima shortly after 13:00 local time (18:00 GMT). So far, two people are known to have been killed, […]

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Ceremonial splendour in London gave way to a quiet burial in Windsor as Britain said goodbye to its longest-reigning monarch   Caroline Davies GUARDIAN After the majestical funeral pomp and military spectacle, unsurpassed in the nation’s living memory and watched across the world, the final farewell to Queen Elizabeth II would belong only to her family. […]

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by Alex Gangitano and Brett Samuels Evan Vucci/The Associated Press   The United States and other countries opposed to Russia’s war in Ukraine will be brought to the table at this week’s United Nations General Assembly with nations that sympathetic to Moscow or have refused to take a side, posing a major test for the […]

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NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (September 19, 2022) — The following is the full text of an address by Hon. Mark A. G. Brantley, Premier of Nevis on the occasion of the 39th Anniversary of the Independence of the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis. Fellow citizens, residents and visitors, I greet you once again as we celebrate […]

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By Santana Salmon President of Haiti’s senate Joseph Lambert has told the nation that a new governance structure will be in place within the next 48 hours. In a message to the nation late Saturday, Lambert said the new structure will include a High Council for the 20-month transition; a new government; a transition control […]

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St. John’s (Antigua and Barbuda) (AFP) – Black cloth covers the portrait of Queen Elizabeth II hanging in Antigua’s parliament — a sign of the island’s mourning and an unintentional symbol of a possible Caribbean future without the British monarchy. The queen’s death has put the wind at the back of republican movements in a […]

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