By Sabrina Valle Summary About 11 billion barrels of oil and gas found off Guyana Country wants to accelerate production to develop economy Hopes to negotiate more favorable contracts for next phase New offshore oil blocks on offer from September GEORGETOWN, July 18 (Reuters) – For the poor, small South American country of Guyana, there’s […]

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QUITO, July 18 (Reuters) – Thirteen prisoners were killed at a prison in the Ecuadorean city of Santo Domingo on Monday, Ecuador’s prison agency said, the latest incident of deadly jail violence in the Andean country. The government of conservative President Guillermo Lasso attributes prison violence to fights between gangs over control of territory and […]

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By Cheney Orr and Brendan O’Brien   GREENWOOD, Ind., July 18 (Reuters) – The gunman who killed three people in a shopping mall near Indianapolis would likely have taken many more lives if not for the “heroic” actions of an armed bystander who shot the suspect dead and stopped the attack, police said on Monday. […]

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By Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC Mexico’s navy has held a ceremony to honour 14 marines who died when the helicopter they were travelling in crashed in the north of the country. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the marines had been supporting the moperation in which drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero was captured on Friday. The […]

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CHARLESTOWN, NEVIS, July 18, 2022 (MMS-SKN) — The Senior Citizens Division in the Nevis Island Administration’s Ministry of Social Services, in preparation for a break of seniors’ group meetings that coincides with the schools’ summer break, treated seniors on Nevis to a movie outing on Thursday July 14 at the Nevis Performing Arts Centre (NEPAC). […]

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By Malu Cursino BBC News   Western Europe faces more sweltering temperatures on Tuesday as a ferocious heatwave heads north. In France and the UK extreme heat warnings were issued while northern Spain recorded temperatures of 43C (109F) on Monday. Deadly wildfires in France, Portugal, Spain and Greece have forced thousands of people to evacuate […]

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In a startling day of results for Team USA on home soil, Ryan Crouser led another American cleansweep, this time in the shot put alongside Joe Kovacs and Josh Awotunde. Agence France-Presse July 18, 2022 09:46:08 IST Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce poses after the final in the women’s 100-meter run at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, […]

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TOKYO, Japan (CMC) — The World Bank has issued a Sustainable Development Bond of US$33.8 million to raise awareness of the importance of road safety in the Caribbean and other developing countries. The Washington-based financial institution said the bond, due July 2027, was issued through its International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), as it […]

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Trending | View in Browser July 18, 2022 Here is today’s selection of top stories from The Associated Press at this hour to begin your day.  Today’s Headlines Uvalde report: 376 officers but ‘egregiously poor’ decisions UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Nearly 400 law enforcement officials rushed to a mass shooting at a Uvalde elementary school, […]

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Wildlife vet Frederick Toro Cortes, of Santo Tomás University in Chile, and his team perform a necropsy on a blue whale carcass in a scene from the CNN Original Series “Patagonia: Life on the Edge of the World.” By Katie Hunt, CNN   (CNN) The blue whale’s giant corpse was lying washed up on a […]

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