LIMA, Aug 4 (Reuters) – Peru’s Congress on Thursday forced President Pedro Castillo to stay in the country this week as he navigates a leadership crisis, without a prime minister and with a new Cabinet expected to be sworn in on Friday. Castillo had sought to travel to Colombia for the inauguration of left-wing President […]
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By Vanessa Buschschlüter Venezuelan opposition politician Juan Requesens has been sentenced to eight years in jail, his lawyer says. He was arrested three days after a drone carrying explosives blew up at a military parade attended by President Nicolás Maduro on 4 August 2018. Mr Maduro was not hurt in the attack. Juan Requesens has […]
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A court in Brazil has overturned the conviction of four men who were sentenced to long terms in prison over a deadly nightclub fire. The blaze in the Kiss nightclub in the southern city of Santa Maria in 2013 killed 242 people. It erupted when a band playing at the club lit flares which in […]
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By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the United States of America and the Organization of American States. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, and Massey College in the University of Toronto) In the first part of this […]
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by Joseph Choi The Hill President Biden testing positive for COVID-19 again days after completing a course of Paxlovid has raised the question of whether the length of the antiviral treatment should be reconsidered. Just days after he completed a five-day round of Pfizer’s COVID-19 antiviral treatment, Biden’s physician, Kevin O’Connor, said in a letter […]
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by Nathaniel Weixel The Hill The Biden administration has officially declared monkeypox a public health emergency, a move that’s aimed at freeing up emergency funding and improving distribution of vaccines and treatments. “We are prepared to take our response to the next level in addressing this virus, and we urge every American to take monkeypox […]
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Little over two years after the last election, Kittitians and Nevisians are back at the polls looking to elect a government for the next five years. In 2020, Team Unity led by Dr Timothy Harris stormed to victory winning nine of the 11 seats. This time around the dynamic would be different with the breaking […]
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The Reuters Daily Briefing Thursday, August 4, 2022 by Rossalyn Warren Hello Here’s what you need to know. China fired multiple missiles around Taiwan as it launched unprecedented military drills, parents of children killed in the Sandy Hook massacre urge a judge to block payments to Alex Jones, and Kenya gets ready to hold elections. […]
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By Santana Salmon Police in The Bahamas are seeking to identify a child, whose body, clad only in underwear, was found in a pond near the Oakes Field Sports Centre Golf Academy on Tuesday. Police said they believe the child had been there for at least 24 hours. He is one of three persons […]
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Danica Coto San juan, puerto rico The Associated Press Near-record amounts of seaweed are smothering Caribbean coasts from Puerto Rico to Barbados, killing fish and other wildlife, choking tourism and releasing stinky, noxious gases. More than 24 million tons of sargassum blanketed the Atlantic in June, shattering the all-time record, set in 2018, […]
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