By Nelson Acosta HAVANA, July 22 (Reuters) – Cuba’s National Assembly on Friday approved a sweeping update of its family law which opens the door to allowing gay marriage, greater women’s rights, and increased protections for children, the elderly and other family members. The new Families Code will be put to a referendum vote on […]
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A general view shows security forces and migrants pictured in the site after Mexican officials detained more than 200 mostly Guatemala migrants at a warehouse in central Mexico who were waiting to be smuggled northward, the government said on Sunday, in Jilotepec in the state of Mexico, Mexico July 24, 2022. The National Migration Institute […]
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By Philip Pullella and Timon Johnson EDMONTON, Alberta, July 24 (Reuters) – Pope Francis landed in Canada on Sunday to kick off a week-long trip that will center around his apology on behalf of the Roman Catholic Church for the abuse that indigenous children endured at mostly church-run residential schools. “This is a trip […]
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By Malu Cursino BBC News Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has officially launched his re-election campaign, as he trails his main rival badly in opinion polls. Thousands of the far-right president’s supporters gathered at a stadium in Rio de Janeiro, where he was nominated. He promised to retain a welfare programme that makes cash payments to […]
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BBC- A Brazilian court has charged three men with the murder last month of British journalist Dom Phillips and a local indigenous expert, Bruno Pereira. The crime exposed the lawlessness that prevails in Brazil’s Amazon region. Two of the suspects helped police locate the bodies of Phillips and Pereira, who had gone missing in the […]
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Hundreds of children in Haiti are taking refuge at a high school in the capital Port-au-Prince after escaping gang violence that has claimed hundreds of lives this month. Toddlers to teenagers are sleeping in classrooms at the prestigious Institution Saint-Louis de Gonzague. A severe wave of violence erupted between two rival gangs in the Cité […]
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BBC- At least 17 people from Haiti have died in a boat accident off the coast of The Bahamas, the government has said. Bahamian PM Philip Davis said it is thought those on board were travelling from Haiti to Miami, Florida in the US. Police in The Bahamas said the boat capsized more than 11 […]
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The US Coast Guard and other partner agencies intercepted the sailboat after it had run aground on Thursday Migrants were transferred from the ‘overloaded and unsafe sailing vessel’ to the Coast Guard cutter crews By Rachael Bunyan For Mailonline The U.S. Coast Guard averted what may have been a disaster when it intercepted a […]
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The Reuters Daily Briefing Friday, July 22, 2022 by Linda Noakes Hello Here’s what you need to know. Ukraine and Russia are set to sign a deal to reopen grain export ports, cracks appear in Trump’s standing among Republicans, and New Zealand’s COVID death rate hits record levels Today’s biggest stories A never-before-seen video of […]
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