By Pilar Olivares GUARAPUAVA, Brazil, May 13 (Reuters) – Far from the bomb blasts and constant sirens in her ruined home city of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine, eight-year-old Arina Hashlova practices her gymnastics routine daily at her new school in Brazil. In a nearby apartment, a Ukrainian family says grace before a meal of cabbage […]
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HAVANA, May 15 (Reuters) – Cuban lawmakers on Sunday approved a new penal code for the country that is being critiqued by some rights groups who say its clause on foreign funding may be used to unjustly stifle dissent and independent journalism in the wake of widespread anti-government protests last July. The government said the […]
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North Korea: More than a million Covid cases feared Employees spray disinfectant and wipe surfaces in North Korea’s capital, Pyongyang BBC- North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un has lambasted health officials and ordered the army to help distribute medicine, as a wave of Covid cases sweeps through the country. More than a million people have […]
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Image source, EPA BBC- Witnesses to a racially-motivated attack at a New York state supermarket have been describing the horrific moment an 18-year-old white man pulled out a gun and began a shooting spree that left 10 people dead. The attacker, dressed in military gear, drove into the car park at Tops Friendly Market in […]
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By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the United States of America and the Organisation of American States. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London and Massey College in the University of Toronto) The Summit of the Americas, scheduled to […]
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Trending | View in Browser May 13, 2022 Here is today’s selection of top stories from The Associated Press at this hour to begin your day. Today’s Headlines Kremlin warns of retaliation after Finland moves toward NATO KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Kremlin warned about taking retaliatory “military-technical” steps after Finland’s leaders came out in […]
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A “mass rescue effort” is underway after the boat capsized more than 11 miles north of the uninhabited island of Desecheo. DÁNICA COTO SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A boat loaded with suspected migrants capsized north of an uninhabited island near Puerto Rico and 11 people had been confirmed dead while 31 others were […]
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President Joe Biden President Biden will order flags at half-staff Thursday to commemorate the deaths of 1 million Americans who lost their lives to COVID-19. Biden released a statement Thursday morning honoring those who have died in the U.S. over the last two years of the pandemic. He is also set to address a global COVID-19 […]
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By Deisy Buitrago Members of a family sit next to an old gas canister, with a name written on it, at his home in the low-income neighbourhood of Petare, in Caracas, Venezuela April 30, 2022. REUTERS/Gaby Oraa NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES CARACAS, May 12 (Reuters) – Venezuelan housewife Leoana Maricuto was cooking in the […]
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MEXICO CITY, May 12 (Reuters) – A military convoy in the Mexican state of Michoacan did not confront the members of a drug cartel who chased them out of town in broad daylight “to avoid deaths,” the country’s president said Thursday. “Some used (the incident) to say what kind of country we live in (…) […]
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