SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Media platform X said today it would close its operations in Brazil “effective immediately” due to what it called “censorship orders” from Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s federal police formally accused the country’s former justice minister, who served under ex-President Jair Bolsonaro, of acting to block voters in an opposition stronghold from reaching polling stations in the 2022 presidential election, two sources told Reuters on Friday.
(Trinidad Express) A BALMAIN, Couva, family say they have no sympathy for the bandits killed by police on Wednesday in Freeport, as they believe one of the five men killed had invaded their home and robbed them on Monday.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s ruling Morena party aims to elect all Supreme Court justices through a popular vote in June 2025, the party’s leader in the lower house of Congress said on Friday, as part of a controversial judicial reform to be discussed next month.
(Reuters) – Dominican Republic leader Luis Abinader assumed his second four-year term as president on Friday, vowing economic growth and a set of social reforms while criticizing the aftermath of the recent elections in Venezuela.
(Reuters) – Member nations of the Organization of American States today adopted a draft resolution on the situation in Venezuela, which includes a request that Venezuela’s national electoral council publish polling station-level results from the July 28 presidential election.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said today that he believes the Venezuelan government has authoritarian inclinations, but added he would not label President Nicolas Maduro’s administration a dictatorship.
(Trinidad Express) Kiefer Wilson was run over and killed by a car driven by an ex-boyfriend, after she was struck with a wheel spanner on Tuesday night.
SAO PAULO/WASHINGTON/ BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden yesterday seemingly backed a new election in Venezuela, after Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva also floated the idea, despite rebuffs from Venezuela’s ruling party and its opposition which both claim victory in the July 28 contest.
(Reuters) – Hurricane Ernesto yesterday barreled toward Bermuda where it threatened powerful winds, a dangerous storm surge and heavy rains over the weekend after leaving hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans without power in its wake.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s ruling party-controlled National Assembly yesterday unanimously passed a bill allowing the government to more tightly regulate non-governmental organizations (NGOs), amid criticism of a government crackdown on the opposition after a disputed July election.
SAO PAULO/WASHINGTON/BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said yesterday that he would support a new election in Venezuela, after Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva also floated the idea, despite rebuffs from Venezuela’s ruling party and its opposition which both claim victory in the July 28 contest.
(Jamaica Gleaner) One of the men suspected of being a shooter in Sunday’s mass killing in Cherry Tree Lane, Clarendon, was shot and killed during an operation by the security forces in the parish yesterday afternoon.
(Trinidad Express) Sixty-eight-year-old Edward Taylor, enfeebled by three strokes and a heart condition, could do nothing when gunmen broke into his home and terrorised him at daybreak yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) Kiefer Wilson was run over and killed by a car driven by an ex-boyfriend, after she was struck with a wheel spanner on Tuesday night.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Authorities investigating the Brazilian plane crash that killed all 62 on board last week now have the full transcript of the “black box” but its content did not immediately explain the cause of the accident, local TV station Globo said yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) Six people were shot and killed by police just after noon yesterday on Mission Road in Freeport.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told a morning press conference yesterday that he would send a diplomatic note to the United States over what he called interference regarding U.S.
KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness today declared a state of emergency in the Caribbean nation’s southern Clarendon parish after eight people were killed in separate gun attacks on Sunday night, including a seven-year-old boy.
(Barbados Nation) Attorney General Dale Marshall says comprehensive reforms to ensure the speedier passage of cases through the courts and reduce the backlog are on the way.
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