The Reuters Daily Briefing Wednesday, August 31, 2022 by Linda Noakes Hello Here’s what you need to know. The West mourns Mikhail Gorbachev as a peace champion, Russia deepens Europe’s energy squeeze, and California braces for another run of extreme heat Today’s biggest stories Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev attends a parade marking the World […]

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Russian news agencies report death of last leader of Soviet Union at Central clinical hospital in Moscow Andrew Roth in Moscow and Luke Harding Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader whose reforms led to the unlooked for break-up of his own country, and to the demise of communism across central and eastern Europe, has died […]

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ByMicaiah Morgan More than 300 passengers were forced to sleep on the floor of the L.F. Wade International Airport in after a London-bound flight from Florida was forced to divert to Bermuda, local and international media have reported. A replacement American Airlines (AA) plane eventually flew the passengers to their original destination on Monday night […]

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By Micaiah Morgan CNW- The World Travel Awards Caribbean & North America 2022 will be held in Jamaica on August 31. The Caribbean and America’s top tourism industry professionals and decision-makers will attend the red-carpet gala event at Sandals Montego Bay, where the best in the area will be honored. “We are proud and honored […]

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14ymedio, Juan Diego Rodríguez, Havana, 22 August 2022 — The tiredness that María felt last Wednesday did not bode well, although, at first, she thought it had been the walk in the sun throughout Central Havana in search of bread. Later, her discomfort made her fear the worst of it, of which she had no […]

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By Lisandra Paraguassu   BRASILIA, Aug 31 (Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s aides are reaching out to Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo to form a united front of countries with the most tropical rainforest at this year’s U.N. climate talks if the leftist wins a new term. The […]

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By Rod Nickel and Sabrina Valle   Aug 31 (Reuters) – Global oil companies are pumping billions of dollars into offshore drilling, reversing a long decline in spending on the decades-long projects including some in the remote iceberg waters far off Canada’s Atlantic coast. Surging oil prices are encouraging the investments, along with Europe’s mounting […]

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By Brian Ellsworth   MIAMI, Aug 30 (Reuters) – A Caribbean regional court has ruled that a Saint Kitts and Nevis prohibition on gay sex is unconstitutional because it violates the right to privacy, striking down one of a handful of bans on same-sex intercourse that still exist in the region. The Eastern Caribbean Supreme […]

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By Merlyn Thomas & Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News Ecuador has launched an investigation into the killing of four Galapagos giant tortoises, which prosecutors fear were hunted and eaten. Remains of the reptiles were found in a national park on Isabela, the largest island of the Galapagos archipelago. Killing the endangered animals has been banned since […]

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By Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News   A Mexican woman who served time in jail for her links to drug trafficking is suing Netflix and TV channel Telemundo. Sandra Ávila Beltrán argues that the TV series Queen of the South is based on her life, her lawyer told the Mexican newspaper Milenio. Ávila Beltrán says her […]

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