Today’s Headlines Heavy gunfire rocks Iraq’s Green Zone amid violent protests BAGHDAD (AP) — Supporters of an influential Iraqi Shiite cleric fired rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns into Iraq’s Green Zone as security forces returned fire…Read More Women race political clock, cross state lines for abortions DAYTON, OHIO (AP) — In the dim light of […]

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By Santana Salmon In culminating its official calendar of activities commemorating the 60th Anniversary of Jamaica’s Independence, the Consulate General of Jamaica in New York says that it will, for the first time in its history, lead fellow nationals under its official banner at the West Indian Day Carnival Parade, on Brooklyn’s Eastern Parkway, on Labor […]

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14ymedio, Madrid, August 26, 2022 — The characteristics of the last Cuban medical brigade imported by Mexico, which began to arrive in the last week of July, according to a new report, offer no doubt about the spurious interests behind the facade of humanitarian collaboration with which they have been sold to public opinion. “They […]

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by Sampson Nanton T&T Guardian   Several parts of northern Trinidad experienced some of the worst flash flooding seen in recent years yesterday, amid heavy and persistent rainfall that started just before noon. Major roadways and communities in Western Trinidad were among the worst hit, with the free flow of traffic prevented for over two […]

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By Stefano Pozzebon Bogota (CNN) Colombia and Venezuela have reestablished diplomatic relations, in a tectonic shift in South American regional politics. Colombian ambassador Armando Benedetti met on Monday with Venezuelan authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas. “At this hour I’m received by President Nicolas Maduro, to whom I present diplomatic papers […]

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By Marcia Reverdosa, Sahar Akbarzai and Camilo Rocha, CNN (CNN) Invasions and illegal extraction of natural resources in Brazil’s protected indigenous lands have tripled since President Jair Bolsonaro took office in 2019, according to a report by Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI) in Brazil. “This government favors the exploitation and private appropriation of Indigenous territories,” the […]

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 29 (Reuters) – Brazilian state prosecutors on Monday pressed charges against a German diplomat accused of the murder of his Belgian husband and are investigating reports that he has left the country after a court released him from police custody. Uwe Herbert Hahn, who worked at the German consulate in Rio […]

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TAIPEI, Aug 30 (Reuters) – Guatemalan Foreign Minister Mario Bucaro said on Tuesday that the Central American country will “always support” Taiwan, after China conducted its largest-ever military drills around the self-ruled island earlier this month. Meeting Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen at the presidential office in Taipei, Bucaro said that Guatemala and Taiwan were “like-minded […]

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BRASILIA, Aug 29 (Reuters) – The European Union needs to help develop the economic potential of the Amazon’s biodiversity, Brazil’s former leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and candidate in this year’s presidential race told Members of the European Parliament on Monday. Lula said that Brazil needs partnerships to develop the Amazon region economically without […]

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By Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News The last remaining member of an uncontacted indigenous group in Brazil has died, officials say. The man, whose name was not known, had lived in total isolation for the past 26 years. He was known as Man of the Hole because he dug deep holes, some of which he used […]

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