The FBI is in talks with Bahamian authorities to extradite the 30-year-old crypto founder. According to a report by Daily Mail, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is planning to bring Sam Bankman-Fried to the US for questioning and is speaking with Bahamian authorities to this effect. Notably, the Daily Mail report cites a Bloomberg story […]
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By Leo Jakobson The Caribbean island nation’s prime minister said that the country is looking into becoming the third nation, after El Salvador and the Central African Republic, to adopt a cryptocurrency. The tiny Caribbean nation of St. Kitts and Nevis is considering adopting Bitcoin Cash as a legal tender, its prime minister said. Speaking […]
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The UN and Haitian officials called for international assistance to respond to an outbreak of cholera that the World Health Organization has warned puts hundreds of thousands of people across the Caribbean nation at risk. In a statement on Tuesday, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA) appealed for $145.6m to help […]
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By Jake Spring SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov 16 (Reuters) – Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva got a warm welcome at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt on Wednesday, where he was to make his first speech abroad since being elected as the Amazon nation’s next president. Lula has vowed to recommit the rainforest nation […]
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By Kate Chappell and Brian Ellsworth KINGSTON, Nov 15 (Reuters) – Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Tuesday declared a state of public emergency in parts of the capital Kingston and in some central and western parishes in an attempt to control rising crime linked to gang violence. States of emergency give authorities increased powers, […]
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Summary Aims to have principles, policies in place by COP28 Loss and damage fund proves sticking point at talks Developed nations want to move slower, consider options SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov 15 (Reuters) – The G77 bloc of developing countries and China are proposing the establishment of a new ‘loss and damage’ fund to provide […]
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By Marc Frank and Nelson Acosta HAVANA, Nov 15 (Reuters) – Cuba on Tuesday said it had signed 30 foreign investment deals valued at around $400 million this year, more than in 2021 but far short of pre-pandemic levels of at times around $2 billion. Cuba is struggling through its worst economic crisis in decades, […]
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Nov 16 (Reuters) – The president of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel, is set to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin next week in Moscow, the RIA News agency reported on Wednesday, citing the Cuban ambassador. Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Alison Williams
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by Rafael Bernal and Rebecca Beitsch THE HILL A federal judge on Tuesday vacated the Title 42 policy that allowed border agents to rapidly expel migrants without letting them seek asylum, toppling a Trump-era policy embraced by the Biden administration. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan in Washington, D.C., found the policy violated the Administrative Procedures […]
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NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (November 15, 2022) — An official of the Department of Agriculture in the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) is advising farmers on Nevis of a new type of pest which has been affecting certain crops on the island since late October. Mr. Quincy Bart, Plant Health and Plant Quarantine Officer at the department […]
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