BBC- The leader of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) has been arrested for alleged drug smuggling and money laundering in the US. Premier Andrew Fahie was detained in Miami by US agents posing as cocaine traffickers from a Mexican drug cartel. He agreed a $700,000 (£560,000) payment to allow traffickers to use BVI ports with […]
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Trending | View in Browser April 28, 2022 Here is today’s selection of top stories from The Associated Press at this hour to begin your day. Today’s Headlines Occupied Ukrainian city fears sham Russian referendum plans LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ever since Russian forces took the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson in early March, residents […]
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By Santana Salmon The United States government says its decision to construct a new embassy building in Trinidad and Tobago “is a powerful indicator of the longstanding, robust relationship” between the two countries. Media reports on Wednesday said Washington had bought the sprawling Trinidad Country Club on the outskirts of the capital, to facilitate the […]
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By Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – Criminal violence in Haiti worsened this week. with fighting among gangs in part of the capital chasing thousands from their homes and killing at least 20 people, including children. Haiti’s Civil Protection Agency said the fighting began Sunday in four neighborhoods in Port-au-Prince, north of the international airport. […]
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Nadine White Race Correspondent Independent Saint Kitts and Nevis has become the latest Caribbean nation to indicate it wants to part ways with the British monarchy and become a republic – just as Prince Edward and his wife Sophie end a tour of the region in celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Shawn Richards, […]
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By Jake Spring SAO PAULO, April 28 (Reuters) – The world lost an area of forest the size of the U.S. state of Wyoming last year, as wildfires in Russia set all-time records and Brazilian deforestation of the Amazon remains high, a global forest monitoring project report said on Thursday. Global Forest Watch, which […]
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WASHINGTON, April 27 (Reuters) – Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government are likely to be excluded from the U.S.-hosted Summit of the Americas to be held in June in Los Angeles, a senior State Department official said on Wednesday. “They are unlikely to be there,” U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Brian Nichols told […]
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CARACAS, April 27 (Reuters) – Judges on Venezuela’s Supreme Justice Tribunal on Wednesday named Gladys Gutierrez – who is under sanction by the United States – as the court’s new president. Gutierrez is one of 20 judges that Venezuela’s ruling-party controlled National Assembly appointed to the South American country’s top court earlier this week. read […]
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By Marcelo Rochabrun LIMA, April 27 (Reuters) – Peruvian police said on Wednesday they had evicted an indigenous community that set up a camp inside a huge open pit owned by MMG’s Las Bambas copper mine, that had forced the Chinese-owned company to halt operations. Las Bambas, owned by China’s MMG Ltd (1208.HK), supplies […]
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BBC- Eleven Colombian ex-soldiers are giving details about extrajudicial killings carried out by the army during Colombia’s armed conflict. They are taking part in a public hearing of the special court examining crimes committed during the conflict. More than 6,400 civilians were killed by the military and falsely passed off as enemy combatants between 2002 […]
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