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Bahamas Waiting Identity of American Visitors Who Died at Sandals Resort

By Santana Salmon The Bahamas government says the process of identifying the cause of death of three American visitor over the weekend, will begin “once the remains have been legally identified.” Acting Prime Minister Chester Cooper in a statement regarding the deaths of the three American visitors at the Sandals Emerald Bay Resort in Exuma […]

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WORLD VIEW: Ukraine War Latest, Marcos Philippines Win, S.Korea Offers Aid to NK, $195m Warhol Painting, More

Trending | View in Browser May 10, 2022 Here is today’s selection of top stories from The Associated Press at this hour to begin your day. Today’s Headlines Russia pounds Odesa as civilian bodies uncovered elsewhere ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Russia pounded away at Ukraine’s vital southern port of Odesa, Ukrainian officials said Tuesday, as […]

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Royal Caribbean Recruits 600 Gambians On Ship Hotel Works At Coco Ocean

The Point (Banjul) By Sulayman Waan Royal Caribbean Cruise Company Ltd. has commenced recruitment of about 600 Gambian youth for various ship hotel professions. The Royal Caribbean wants professionals on ship hotels including restaurant workers, cooks, launders, security personnel, healthcare officers, bar workers, and photographers among others. The company has ships in the United States […]

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El Salvador Woman Gets 30 Year Prison Sentence for Having Emergency Abortion

SAN SALVADOR, May 9 (Reuters) – A court in El Salvador jailed a woman for 30 years on Monday for killing her unborn baby daughter even though she had been suffering what she said was an obstetric emergency, an organization dedicated to decriminalizing abortion said. The woman, a mother of a 7-year-old girl, had a […]

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‘Our Mountains Are Gone’: Grief as Sacred New Mexico Forests Burn

By Andrew Hay   ANGOSTURA, N.M., May 9 (Reuters) – Forests in Ella Arellano’s family for nine generations burned in a day on Monday as fierce winds drove the United States’ largest wildfire through a New Mexico valley towards a third county. Arellano sat in an evacuation center in Peñasco on Monday and grieved the […]

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Rescuers in Cuba Hotel Blast Hope for Survivors as Death Toll Hits 40

By Dave Sherwood HAVANA, May 9 (Reuters) – Cuban rescue workers combed through vast piles of rubble from the Hotel Saratoga in the early hours of Monday, uncovering four more bodies overnight after the hotel was hit by an explosion and bringing the death toll to at least 40, a local official said. The massive […]

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U.S. Charges 3rd Suspect in Moise Assassination Moise

By Brian Ellsworth and Kylie Madry MIAMI, May 9 (Reuters) – The United States on Monday charged a former Haitian senator with conspiring to kill Haitian President Jovenel Moise, the third suspect to be charged by the Department of Justice as the Caribbean nation’s own probe into the murder remains stalled. John Joel Joseph, who […]

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Two Journalists Killed in Mexican State of Veracruz

MEXICO CITY, May 9 (Reuters) – Two Mexican journalists were killed on Monday in the eastern state of Veracruz, the state attorney general’s office said, making a 2022 toll of 11 in one of the deadliest years on record for media workers in the country. Yessenia Mollinedo and Sheila Garcia died in the municipality of […]

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Haiti’s 400 Mawozo Gang Abducts 17 People from Tourist Bus

Image source, ReutersImage caption, Haiti’s police force has struggled to contain gang violence A Haitian gang infamous for kidnappings for ransom has seized at least 17 people from a tourist bus they were travelling in. Eight of the passengers are reportedly Turkish nationals, the remaining eight are Haitian and the driver is from the Dominican […]

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Another Ecuador Prison Riot: More Than 40 Killed, 108 Escape

By Tiffany Wertheimer BBC News      At least 43 inmates have been killed in Ecuador’s latest deadly prison riot, the public prosecutor has said. A fight broke out between rival gangs Los Lobos and R7 at a prison in Santo Domingo, some 80km (50miles) west of the capital Quito. Ecuador is battling a wave of […]

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