People aren’t taking this seriously’: experts say US Covid surge is big risk Fewer precautions, recent holidays and subvariants have driven rise but boosters, masks and other precautions are still effective A billboard promotes Covid-19 vaccinations in Times Square in New York last month. Photograph: Justin Lane/EPA Melody Schreiber Guardian In the fourth year of […]

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  Hello! Italy arrests a top mafia boss who had been on the run for 30 years, household wealth optimism collapses across the globe, and Republicans want visitor logs for Biden’s home – but not Trump’s   by Linda Noakes World News Emergency personnel work at the site where an apartment block was heavily damaged […]

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By DANICA COTO AP SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Two suspected drug traffickers were killed early Sunday in a shootout with federal agents off Puerto Rico’s northeast coast, officials said. The incident occurred shortly after midnight, when authorities detected a suspicious boat at sea and a chase ensued, Jeffrey Quiñones, spokesman for U.S. Customs […]

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By Santana Salmon A shipment of cocaine valued at more than J$7 billion (US$50 million) was seized in Kingston on Saturday during a multi-agency operation at the Port of Kingston, in what’s believed to be one of the largest drug busts in Jamaica’s history According to a report from the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), during […]

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By CMC News The Suriname government is holding an emergency meeting on Saturday with security officials after an attempt had been made Friday night to bomb the courthouse in the capital. The authorities said persons threw explosives at the building and gunshots were also fired at the building. They said the explosives did not explode […]

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by Christopher Serju/ – Senior Gleaner Writer Gleaner- Prime Minister Andrew Holness has pointed to the success achieved in crime-fighting in El Salvador as what can be achieved in curbing gang violence, if the right approach is used. He was speaking at last Thursday’s national security seminar under the theme ‘Defending and Securing Jamaica’s Development: […]

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By Jon Herskovitz BLOOMBERG To gauge the titanic shift in how countries are viewing their immediate security challenges look no further than Japan and Germany. After their defeat in World War II, they have relied on the US military umbrella as they built prosperous societies imbued with varying degrees of pacifist ideology. But now both are […]

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By Mark John Jan 16 (Reuters) – Barely two in five people believe their families will be better off in the future, according to a regular global survey that also identified growing levels of distrust in institutions among low-income households. The Edelman Trust Barometer, which for over two decades has polled the attitudes of thousands […]

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Image source, Getty Images Dozens of people have been killed in the unrest that has gripped Peru By Charlene Anne Rodrigues BBC News Peru’s President Dina Boluarte has refused to step down despite weeks of anti-government protests rocking the deeply divided country. “I will not resign. My commitment is with Peru,” she said in a […]

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by Cheyanne M. Daniels THE HILL Martin Luther King III, right, holds hands with his wife Arndrea Waters King, as they walk with Texas State Rep. Rhetta Bowers, after a news conference with the Texas State Democratic Delegation at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Sixty years after Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his […]

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