BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A supporter of far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro stabbed to death a backer of leftist former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, authorities said on Friday, in the latest example of rising political tensions ahead of the upcoming election.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela will seek the extradition of a former top energy official and launched fresh legal action against a former oil minister, who it is also trying to extradite from Europe, the state attorney-general’s office said on Friday.
(Trinidad Guardian) The body found wrapped in plastic in Brasso almost three weeks ago, has been identified as Piparo landlord Darius Jerrybandhan.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela will seek the extradition of a former top energy official and launched fresh legal action against a former oil minister, who it is also trying to extradite from Europe, the state attorney-general’s office said yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) A 20-year-old Morvant man was fatally shot in Carenage on Thursday afternoon.
(Trinidad Guardian) The body found wrapped in plastic in Brasso almost three weeks ago, has been identified as Piparo landlord Darius Jerrybandhan.
KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukraine hailed a lightning counteroffensive it said had recaptured swathes of its territory in the east and south, as U.S.
LA PAZ, (Reuters) – Thousands of coca farmers marched into the Bolivian capital of La Paz yesterday and set ablaze to what they claimed was an illegal new market for the leaf.
(Reuters) – The U.S. Coast Guard said yesterday that it is responding to a natural gas pipeline explosion at Lake Lery, Louisiana, and there has been no reports of injuries, casualties or pollution at this time.
(Trinidad Express) The Police Service has launched a new programme to prevent young persons from joining gangs and engaging in violent crimes.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has lined up a supply of monkeypox vaccine for Latin America and the Caribbean, as the Americas becomes a new epicentre for the rapidly spreading disease.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said yesterday he had invited relatives of Julian Assange, Che Guevara and Hugo Chavez to attend the country’s independence day celebrations next week.
QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuador’s top electoral court has opened up a route for a referendum to ban oil drilling in the Yasuni National Park, an environmental group said yesterday, a move which could disrupt government plans to boost its crude production.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has lined up a supply of monkeypox vaccine for Latin America and the Caribbean, as the Americas becomes a new epicentre for the rapidly spreading disease.
(Barbados Nation) With the winter tourist season just two months away, one economist is warning that Barbados cannot afford to have gun violence derail what he believes will be a make-or-break season in terms of the country’s economic recovery.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said yesterday that he had changed his mind about deploying the armed forces to oversee public security as he defended his plan to give the Army control of the civilian-led National Guard.
QUITO, (Reuters) – Two indigenous communities from Ecuador’s Amazon region yesterday demanded the Constitutional Court enforce rulings from 2018 and 2019 to protect thousands of hectares (thousands of acres) of tropical jungle from oil and mining projects.
NASSAU, (Reuters) – A 58-year-old Pennsylvania woman died in a shark attack in The Bahamas yesterday, police said.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro is calling supporters to attend street rallies alongside Independence Day military parades today, a showing that may gauge support for the far-right leader’s attacks on democratic institutions ahead of an October election.
ASUNCION, (Reuters) – A journalist was murdered on Paraguay’s violent border with Brazil yesterday, the latest episode of violence in a region increasingly besieged by drug trafficking and gang disputes.
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