MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican authorities have failed to carry out all arrests ordered by prosecutors over the 2014 disappearance of 43 students and the military has denied access to important information, a rights group said on Friday, expressing concern over continued delays in the investigation.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on April 14 in Beijing, his office said yesterday, rescheduling a visit that was postponed last week after Lula was diagnosed with a mild pneumonia.
ADJUNTAS, Puerto Rico, (Reuters) – For U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Graholm, the transformation of Puerto Rico’s power grid to solar and other renewable power, after hurricanes wiped it out in 2017 and 2022, is an imperative that goes beyond addressing climate change.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro returned from three months in the United States on Thursday and was welcomed back by hundreds of chanting supporters at the Brasilia airport before heading straight into meetings with his political party.
QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuador’s opposition has compelling evidence to present against President Guillermo Lasso at his impeachment hearing, a lawmaker said yesterday, including irregularities in a crude oil shipping contract overseen by Lasso.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro returned from three months in the United States yesterday and was welcomed back by hundreds of chanting supporters at the Brasilia airport before heading straight into meetings with his political party.
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(Trinidad Guardian) Victory after 19 years of pursuit, a beaming former attorney general Faris Al-Rawi said yesterday.
(Barbados Nation) Murderer Patrick Nathaniel Leacock stabbed his estranged girlfriend 24 times while their daughter sat nearby at a table eating her breakfast.
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico, (Reuters) – Migrants were locked in a cell as a blaze spread kill-ing 39 people at a detention centre in Mexico, witnesses and a survivor said yesterday, as Mexican prosecutors said they were investigating the incident as a possible homicide.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro said yesterday he will not lead the opposition to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, but will collaborate with his political party, the conservative Liberal Party.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica and other regions are set to benefit from millions of pounds in “substantial” restorative justice funding over the next decade after the sole shareholder in the United Kingdom, Guardian Group, apologised for the media company’s links to transatlantic slavery.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica and other regions are set to benefit from millions of pounds in “substantial” restorative justice funding over the next decade after the sole shareholder in the United Kingdom, Guardian Group, apologised for the media company’s links to transatlantic slavery.
(Trinidad Guardian) Trade and Industry Minister, Paula Gopee-Scoon, described the opening of a new Amerijet Caribbean Express branch in Port-of-Spain yesterday, as further evidence that investor confidence is growing in the country.
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico, (Reuters) – At least 40 migrants from Central and South America died after a fire broke out late on Monday at a migrant holding center in the Mexican northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, the government’s National Migration Institute (INM) said yesterday.
CARACAS/SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – Vene-zuela’s state-run oil company PDVSA is reviewing accounts of Maroil Trad-ing, owned by Venezuelan shipping magnate Wilmer Ruperti, over outstanding debts from petroleum coke supply, five sources close to the audit said, amid a widescale anti-corruption probe.
ALAUSI, Ecuador, (Reuters) – The official death toll from a landslide in Ecuador rose to 11 last evening as families and rescue groups worked to find dozens of people still missing after large amounts of earth smothered buildings and a stadium in the small city of Alausi.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Demonstrators in Colom-bia’s capital Bogota protested bull fighting and bull running yesterday, calling on lawmakers to ban the practice.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba said yesterday that voters had elected all 470 candidates for the National Assembly on the ballot over the weekend, calling the results a “home run,” while opposition groups critiqued the elections as a farce.
GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemala’s presidential race kicked off yesterday, a day after the electoral authority finalized its approved candidate lineup for the June election, even as critics blasted decisions to disqualify some candidates while allowing others to run.
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