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Drugs: Colombia Okays Extradition to US of Senator’s Brother

BOGOTA, Sept 7 (Reuters) – Colombia’s government on Wednesday approved the extradition of Alvaro Fredy Cordoba, the brother of a senator in the left-wing Pacto Historico party of President Gustavo Petro, to the United States to face drug-trafficking charges. The decision to extradite Cordoba, whose sister is Senator Piedad Cordoba, follows proposals from Petro to […]

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PAHO Secures 100,000 Monkeypox Vaccine Doses for Latin America and Caribbean

Vials of the JYNNEOS smallpox and monkeypox vaccine are placed on a table during a clinic offered by the Pima County Department of Public Health at Abrams Public Health Center in Tucson, Arizona, U.S., August 20, 2022. REUTERS/Rebecca Noble/File Photo MEXICO CITY, Sept 7 (Reuters) – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has lined up […]

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Venezuelan Group on Spiritual Mountain Retreat Reported Missing

By Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News Image source, Getty Images La Grita is located at a height of 1,440m, but the mountains reach to more than 3,000m       Emergency workers are searching for a group of people who disappeared while on a spiritual retreat in the Andes. Drones and dogs are being deployed to […]

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Nevis Seniors Group is Back, Eric Evelyn Pleased

NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (SEPTEMBER 07, 2022) — Hon. Eric Evelyn, Minister responsible for seniors on Nevis registered his satisfaction with the return of the Seniors Recreational Group Meeting hosted by the Seniors Division. The Minister of Social Development in the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) made the comment when he spoke to the Department of Information […]

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Kywee Maynard, Tianj Williams Receive MUA/NIA Scholarship 2022

NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (September 06, 2022) — Ms. Kywee Maynard and Mr. Tianj Williams, both graduates of the Nevis Sixth Form, were awarded with the Medical University of the Americas/Nevis Island Administration (MUA/NIA) Scholarship for 2022. Hon. Mark Brantley, Premier of Nevis, who is also the Minister of Education in the NIA, made the announcement […]

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NEVLEC Advises of Power Outage Thursday, Sept. 08

NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (September 06, 2022) — The following is a power outage notice from the Nevis Electricity Company Limited (NEVLEC) scheduled for Thursday, September 08, 2022. NEVLEC wishes to advise customers located on the Charlestown 1 feeder inclusive of the areas from Sports Zone to TDC (Pinneys) that there will be an outage on […]

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REUTERS WORLD NEWS: UK PM’s Radical New Cabinet, Putin Unhappy with Grain Deal, Pakistan Flood Expands, More

The Reuters Daily Briefing Wednesday, September 7, 2022 by Linda Noakes Hello Here’s what you need to know. Liz Truss’s cabinet is Britain’s first without a white man in the top jobs, why Europe’s banks are dimming the lights, and what to expect from Apple’s ‘Far Out’ fall event Today’s biggest stories Russian President Vladimir […]

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Border Patrol Apprehends More Than 100 Cuban Illegal Aliens in Florida

By Naveen Athrappully Epoch Times   Over 100 illegal immigrants from Cuba were apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol agents, after several vessels made landfall in South Florida during the Labor Day weekend. On Saturday, 45 Cuban illegal immigrants were taken into custody after they arrived on a fishing vessel in Marquesas Keys, according to a […]

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Shark Attack in the Bahamas Kills 58-Year-Old American Woman

NASSAU, Sept 6 (Reuters) – A 58-year-old Pennsylvania woman died in a shark attack in The Bahamas on Tuesday, police said. The woman and her family, who were passengers on Royal Caribbean’s Harmony of the Seas, were visiting New Providence for the day when they booked an excursion. The tour company took the family to […]

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