By Ismail Shakil and Anna Mehler Paperny OTTAWA, May 30 (Reuters) – Canada’s government introduced legislation Monday to implement a “national freeze” on the sale and purchase of handguns as part of a gun control package that would also limit magazine capacities and ban some toys that look like guns. The new legislation, which resurrects […]

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By Jasper Ward NASSAU, May 30 (Reuters) – The United States needs do more to control the illegal flow of weapons to The Bahamas, the country’s prime minister said on Monday, amid growing concern about gun violence and homicides in the Caribbean nation. More than 90% of guns confiscated and used as murder weapons in […]

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By Dave Sherwood   HAVANA, May 30 (Reuters) – Two leading Cuban artist-dissidents faced their first day of trial on Monday after being detained nearly a year ago, part of an ongoing judicial process that human rights groups have called a “farce” and a “circus”. The activists, Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara and Maykel Castillo, are […]

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By Jose Cortes   PUERTO ESCONDIDO, Mexico, May 31 (Reuters) – Mexican officials worked into Tuesday to clear highways blocked by mudslides along Mexico’s southern coast after record-breaking storm Agatha battered the region with torrential rains and strong winds. Agatha made landfall as a Category 2 hurricane on Monday afternoon, touching down with 105 miles […]

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The Reuters Daily Briefing Monday, May 30, 2022 by Linda Noakes Hello Here’s what you need to know. Russia widens gas cuts to Europe, Canada introduces a law to freeze handgun sales, and Shanghai prepares to lift its lockdown Today’s biggest stories An evacuation convoy travels from Russian troop-occupied Kupiansk town, along a damaged road, […]

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NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS — Thirteen boys on Nevis were applauded and awarded for their display of good behaviour and character with the Boy of Excellence Award  by the Department of Gender Affairs in the Ministry of Health and Gender Affairs, in a show of support for the budding young men in celebration of International Day of the […]

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CHARLESTOWN, NEVIS, May 30, 2022 (MMS-SKN) — Giving back to its members by the Nevis Co-operative Credit Union (NCCU) Limited as it celebrates its 50th anniversary continued on Friday May 27, when six women members were presented with care packages. “Internationally women were celebrated in the month of March as is the tradition, but we […]

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By Santana Salmon Members of Guyana’s Customs Anti Narcotic Unit (CANU) on Saturday discovered 21 parcels of cocaine inside a container belonging to Demerara Shipping Limited at the Georgetown wharf. A press release from CANU said the illegal substance weighed 54 pounds and has a street value of approximately GUY$17 million (One Guyana dollar=US$0.004 cents). “However, […]

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Trending | View in Browser May 30, 2022 Here is today’s selection of top stories from The Associated Press at this hour to begin your day.  Today’s Headlines Uvalde tells Biden to ‘do something’; he pledges ‘we will’ UVALDE, Texas (AP) — President Joe Biden grieved with the shattered community of Uvalde on Sunday, mourning […]

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by teleSUR/MS According to the Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, the blockade is the main obstacle to the development of the nation; with damages quantifiable at more than 1,3 billion dollars spanning the six decades of application of the hostile policy. The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX) informed that this Sunday […]

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