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Four Plead Guilty to Attack on Grenada Javelin Champ

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Chief Magistrate, Teddy St Louis, will on Wednesday sentence four Trinidad and Tobago nationals who pleaded guilty to committing grievous harm on Grenada’s reigning World javelin champion, Anderson Peters. The four, including Noel Cooper, 42, the captain of the Barbados-owned vessel, Harbour Master, will remain in custody until sentencing. Cooper, […]

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Mexico: Troops Patrol Ciudad Juarez After Deadly Drug Cartel Instigated Riot

(CNN) Hundreds of Mexican soldiers were sent to the border city of Juarez after a prison face-off between members of two rival cartels caused a riot and shootouts that killed 11 people, most of them civilians, authorities said. Los Chapos, members of the infamous Sinaloa Cartel formerly led by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, and local […]

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Puerto Rico: From One Crisis to Another 5 Years After Hurricane Maria

(CNN) A week before former governor of Puerto Rico Wanda Vázquez was arrested by the FBI on bribery charges, pop superstar Bad Bunny riled up a throng of concertgoers in San Juan, calling out the current governor and the island’s private electric company in an expletive-filled rant. “We have a government over us that messes […]

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Poll: Brazil’s Lula Has 12% Lead over Bolsonaro, Would Win Run-Off by 16%

By Peter Frontini and Anthony Boadle   SAO PAULO, Aug 15 (Reuters) – Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has a 12-percentage-point lead over far-right incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro ahead of the October election, according to a new poll published on Monday. The survey by IPEC, formerly known as IBOPE, showed Lula with 44% of […]

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Ecuador Says Deadly Guayaquil Blast Connected to Crime Gangs

QUITO, Aug 15 (Reuters) – The government of Ecuador has authorized security forces in Guayaquil to carry out inspections of houses as part of a new state of emergency, the interior minister said, after an explosives attack killed five people over the weekend. The blast in the working-class neighborhood of Cristo del Consuelo early on […]

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UN Selects Former Grenada Minister as Climate Chief

By Valerie Volcovici   WASHINGTON, Aug 15 (Reuters) – Grenada’s former Climate Resilience Minister Simon Stiell will become the new United Nations climate chief, UN Secretary General António Guterres announced on Monday. Stiell will take over as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change with under three months before the latest […]

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Trapped Mexico Miners: Setback As Water Levels Rise

By Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News Image source, Reuters Attempts to rescue 10 men from a flooded mine in Mexico have been delayed after the water levels in three shafts rose suddenly on Sunday. The miners became trapped on 3 August when a wall in a tunnel collapsed and water from an adjacent chamber gushed into […]

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First Bi-Variant COVID-19 Booster Vaccine Approved for Use in UK

The adapted COVID-19 vaccine made by Moderna targets two different coronavirus variants – the original virus from 2020 and the Omicron variant An updated version of the COVID-19 vaccine made by Moderna that targets two coronavirus variants (known as a “bivalent” vaccine) has today been approved for adult booster doses by the Medicines and Healthcare […]

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