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Cuba: 45 Dead as Last Body Recovered from Hotel Blast

Emergency personnel walk in front of the Saratoga Hotel six days after it suffered from an explosion, in Havana, Cuba May 12, 2022. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini HAVANA, May 12 (Reuters) – Cuban rescue officials said late on Thursday they had recovered the body of the last person believed to be missing following an explosion last week […]

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Peru Indigenous Community Wants Its Land Back from Chinese Copper Mine

By Marcelo Rochabrun   Members of the indigenous community of Huancuire camp near the Las Bambas copper mine as part of a protest to demand the land they call ancestral lands, to be returned to the communities, in Apurimac, Peru May 9, 2022. REUTERS/Angela Ponce LAS BAMBAS, Peru, May 12 (Reuters) – The community of […]

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BBC Special Report: Confronting My Family’s Slave-Qwning Past

By Laura Trevelyan BBC News, Grenada Nearly 200 years after her ancestors were given a large payout from the British government when slavery was abolished, our correspondent travels to Grenada to find out how this grim legacy continues to reverberate today. High up in the hills of the Caribbean island of Grenada, in the grounds […]

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Japan Offering Postgraduate/Research Scholarships 2022

NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (May 12, 2022) — The following is an announcement from the Ministry of Human Resources in the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) regarding postgraduate /research scholarship opportunities for study in Japan. The Ministry of Human Resources is pleased to inform you that the Government of Japan is offering postgraduate/research scholarships to individuals who […]

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North Korea Locksdown, Fauci on Boosters, More Vaccinated People Getting Virus, World Covid Stats

North Korea orders strict lockdown with first official Covid cases By Frances Mao BBC News North Korea has ordered a strict national lockdown after confirming its first official Covid infections. State media have reported an Omicron outbreak in the capital, Pyongyang, but did not state the number of cases. KCNA said leader Kim Jong-un had […]

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Nevis Junior Minister of Health On International Nurses Day 2022

  NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (May 12, 2022) — The following is an address delivered by Hon. Hazel Brandy-Williams, Junior Minister of Health and Gender Affairs in the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) as Nevis joins the international community in recognizing International Nurses Day 2022 on May 12: “International Nurses Day is celebrated on May 12th annually […]

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What Russia Doesn’t Want: More NATO Members on Its Border

Finland wants security after Russian invasion of Ukraine Sweden expected to follow suit in bid to join alliance Ukraine forces aim to cut Russian battlefield supply lines HELSINKI/KHARKIV, Ukraine, May 12 (Reuters) – Finland said on Thursday it would apply to join NATO “without delay”, with Sweden expected to follow, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine […]

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Mark Brantley: 6 St. Kitts Ministers Were Fired for Standing on Principle

By Santana Salmon CNW- Nevis Premier Mark Brantley says he and five other Cabinet ministers were fired for standing up for their country and for “what is right.” In a series of posts on social media, including one in which he reported that “for the first time in my life I have been fired. I […]

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WORLD VIEW: Ukraine Latest, N. Korea Covid Outbreak, 2nd Pandemic Summit, NATO- Finland Wants In, More

Trending | View in Browser May 12, 2022 Here is today’s selection of top stories from The Associated Press at this hour to begin your day.  Today’s Headlines ‘This tears my soul apart’: A Ukrainian boy and a killing BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — As he listened to his father die, the boy lay still on […]

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Jamaica: Hospitals Beef Up Water Storage as Schools, Courts Wilt Amid Strike

GLEANER- The Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) activated a contingency plan Wednesday as a strike by National Water Commission (NWC) staff disrupted supplies across the island for a second day. “At all of our hospitals in the region, we have reserve water for two days at least, and at the Accident and Emergency wards, there […]

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