The Reuters Daily Briefing Thursday, August 25, 2022 by Linda Noakes Hello Here’s what you need to know. Biden forgives millions of student loans, a Russian attack kills 25 civilians on Ukraine’s Independence Day, and the Twitter staff exodus accelerates Today’s biggest stories President Joe Biden greets people after arriving at the White House from […]

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By Patrick Green CNW- At least 10 Caribbean American candidates emerged victorious in yesterday’s primary elections in South Florida, making them official candidates for the mid-term elections in November this year.   – Advertisement –   Top of the ticket and most popular of the races was the Democrat’s contest for congressional district 20, which […]

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By CMC News The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) says it has signed an agreement with the Universal Postal Union (UPU) to modernize and transform postal services in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). It said the aim is to promote regional integration and trade, strengthen value chains and foster the digital economy. Postal services have […]

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Basseterre, Aug. 24, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Caribbean nation of St Kitts and Nevis tops this year’s CBI Index rankings for offering one of the best citizenship by investment (CBI) programmes in the world. St Kitts and Nevis was rated against 12 other countries with operational CBI programmes, which, in 2022, include Antigua and […]

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By Hari Kishan and Jonathan Cabl   BENGALURU, Aug 25 (Reuters) – It will be a chilly winter for global stocks, according to analysts in a Reuters poll who cut year-end predictions for most major indices from three months ago and warned the risks to that already-dull outlook were skewed to the downside. Equities had […]

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By Luis Jaime Acosta and Oliver Griffin BOGOTA, Aug 24 (Reuters) – Colombian President Gustavo Petro proposed on Wednesday that drug traffickers who comply with government surrender conditions and abandon the trade will not be extradited to face charges abroad. Petro, who was sworn in this month on promises to bring “total peace” to Colombia, […]

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BUENOS AIRES, Aug 24 (Reuters) – Latin American leaders sent their support to Argentina’s Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner on Wednesday, after a federal prosecutor asked for extensive prison time in her corruption proceedings. In a letter widely published on social media, the presidents of Mexico, Colombia and Bolivia said they backed Fernandez de […]

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By Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News On the evening of 26 September 2014, a group of 43 Mexican students disappeared in south-western Guerrero state. The young trainee teachers’ disappearance and the botched investigation which followed triggered protests and outrage in Mexico and abroad. Eight years on, a commission set up to investigate the case described it […]

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By Beth Timmins Business reporter, BBC News Image source, Getty Images Authorities discovered scores of dead animals covered in oil Peru’s consumer protection agency is suing Spanish oil firm Repsol over a huge oil spill which blackened beaches off the coast of Lima in January. The spill, which Peru called the worst ecological disaster around […]

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 NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (August 24, 2022) — As the Ministry of Health and Gender Affairs in the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) continues to educate and empower women and girls on the island, its latest move is focused on preparing them to better weather climate change-related global threats and sustainability. Hon. Hazel Brandy-Williams, Junior Minister of Health […]

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