The Reuters Daily Briefing Wednesday, October 5, 2022 by Linda Noakes Hello Here’s what you need to know. OPEC+ heads for a clash with the U.S., banks financing Musk’s Twitter deal face hefty losses, and why residents of a South Korean seaside town got a big surprise Today’s biggest stories A Ukrainian service member holds […]
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Taiwan’s flourishing art scene will be celebrated Monday, Oct. 10 during the Island’s annual Double Tenth National Day festivities under the heading, ‘Art for All.’ This holiday is always celebrated on 10 October and is the national holiday of Taiwan. It marks the start of the Wuchang Uprising of 10 October 1911. The revolt marked […]
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by Kevon Browne St. Kitts and Nevis (WINN) – St. Kitts and Nevis, along with the international community, observed World Habitat Day (WHD) facilitated through UN-Habitat, a venture that supports matters of Urban Development, on October 03. Urban Development is the social, cultural, economic and physical development of cities, and according to Dr Joyelle Clark, […]
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By Nelson Renteria SAN SALVADOR, Oct 4 (Reuters) – Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s war against the country’s criminal gangs could generate prison overcrowding and even a violent reaction from criminals, said a report by the NGO International Crisis Group (ICG) released Tuesday. After a historic rise in homicides in March, Bukele asked Congress to authorize […]
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GENEVA, Oct 4 (Reuters) – The World Health Organization is setting up tents to treat cholera in Haiti and will also request a supply of oral vaccines against the disease that has unexpectedly returned to a country paralysed by a gang blockade, a WHO spokesperson said. The disease killed some 10,000 people through a 2010 […]
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Oct 5 (Reuters) – An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6 struck the Peru-Ecuador border region on Wednesday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The quake was 25 km (15.5 miles) east-northeast of Sullana, Peru and had a depth of 60 km, the EMSC said. More details to come. Reporting by Shubhendu Deshmukh in […]
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A chronology of key events from the BBC: 1493 – Christopher Columbus lands on the islands and names St Kitts after his patron saint, Christopher. Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, St Kitts, pictured in the 1920s, was a major producer of suger until 2005 1623 – The British establish their first Caribbean colony on St […]
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by Nathaniel Weixel AP Photo/Rick Bowmer A registered nurse prepares a dose of a Monkeypox vaccine. People who were eligible for a monkeypox vaccine but did not receive one were about 14 times more likely to become infected than those who were vaccinated, according to preliminary data released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control […]
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by Tobias Burns The Hill The United Nations warned of a global recession Monday amid efforts by regulators in the world’s most advanced economies — like the U.S. and Europe — to stanch sky-high inflation. The international body called on central banks like the U.S. Federal Reserve “to revert course and avoid the temptation to try […]
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CDC DROPPING COUNTRY-BY-COUNTRY COVID ADVISORY LIST The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) removed its country-by-country list of COVID-19 travel advisories on Monday. The CDC said in a statement to The Hill that its ability to accurately assess the risk for most places that Americans visit has become limited as fewer countries are […]
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