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Obama Renews Pledge to Close Guantanamo Prison
In a speech addressing U.S. national security and counter-terrorism strategy, U.S. President Barack Obama announced additional steps to reaffirm his pledge to close the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He said Guantanamo "has become a symbol around the world for an America that flouts the rule of law." In a speech Thursday at the National Defense University in ...
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Kenyan Cooperation with ICC Questioned
An April 2011 Combination picture shows Kenya's Uhuru Kenyatta, who was finance minister, and William Ruto, former Higher Education Minister at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The ...
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Telescopes Spot Colliding Galaxies
Several telescopes have teamed up to discover a rare and massive merging of two galaxies that took place when the universe was just 3 billion years old (its current age is about 14 billion years). (Photo: ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech/UC ...
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Dissidents find Cuba outside Cuba in Miami
MIAMI -; When Cuban hunger striker Guillermo Farinas arrived in Miami, he said he was prepared to face rejection from radical members of the Cuban-American ...
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Cuba for Diversifying Sugar By-Products
Havana, May 23 (Prensa Latina) Half a century from its foundation, the Cuban Institute for Research on Sugar Cane By-Products (ICIDCA) is focusing on agricultural diversification programs with the development of new products. Sources from the sector highlighted among the current guidelines the improvement of the processes to obtain alcohol, torula melasse, sorbitol, animal food, and bioproducts ...
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Peru - Journalist threatened after reporting on cancelled municipal project in Peru
in the province of Lampa, was verbally threatened by Mara Quispe Quisocala, the local mayor's secretary, apparently because the journalist published information about the Public Treasury and some municipal projects. The incident took place in the Puno region of southern Peru.Ccapa Zapana told IPYS that the threat occurred when he was scheduling an interview with Lampa's deputy mayor, ...
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Three Defendants Plead Guilty to Participating in Ambush Murder and Attempted Murder of ICE Agents in Mexico
WASHINGTON-Julian Zapata Espinoza, also known as "Piolin," 32, pleaded guilty today to the murder of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Special Agent Jaime Zapata and the attempted murder of ICE Special Agent Victor Avila in Mexico. The court also unsealed today the guilty pleas of three other defendants on related murder, attempted murder, racketeering, and accessory ...
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Dominican Republic Latin American leader in Asia trade
Miami.-The Dominican Republic is among Latin America's fastest growing trade partners of China and South Korea, according to an analysis by online publication Latinvex based on figures from the International Monetary Fund and the Korean government. Dominican Republic exports to China last year grew 40.8 percent to $411 million. That was the fifth-highest increase in Latin America. Total ...
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The Caribbean can expect as many as 11 Atlantic hurricanes
College Park, Md.- The Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and other tropical storm-prone areas had better get ready for another busy hurricane season, maybe unusually wild, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecast Thursday, AP reports. NOAA said there'll be 13 to 20 named Atlantic storms, 7 to 11 that strengthen into hurricanes and 3 to 6 that become major hurricanes. It ...
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The UN nixes Xstrata Nickel’s Dominican Republic mine project
Santo Domingo.- The United Nations Program for Development (UNDP) on Thursday rejected the planned mine at Loma Miranda (central) by the Canadian company Xstrata Nickel Falcondo. "The deficiency in the environmental impact study concludes that the project doesn't meet the country's environmental and social requirements," said UNDP local representative Velerie Julliand. The ...
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Brazil delays mining bill says to reach Congress in June
Thu May 23, 2013 4:08pm EDT * Mining sector says languishing as new rules awaited * Quarter of expected Brazil mining investment on hold * Congress could shelve vote on bill By Leonardo Goy BRASILIA, May 23 (Reuters) - Brazil's government plans to submit its mining reform bill to Congress in June rather than this month, energy minister Edison Lobao said on Thursday, prolonging a wait that is ...
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Still no trace of B.C. man who disappeared while travelling through Mexico 16 months ago
The Cloverdale Rodeo protester who filmed another woman in the throes of a racist rant before she was allegedly beaten up and then posted it on YouTube has done this sort of thing ...
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Mexico drug cartel commander pleads guilty in murder of U.S. official
Victor Avila out of the car, said Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the U.S. Justice Department's Criminal Division. When the agents refused, identifying themselves as American diplomats from the U.S. embassy, Espinoza ordered the gunmen to fire on the vehicle. Zapata was killed and Avila was seriously wounded but survived, officials said. Espinoza pleaded guilty to the ...
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Noaa predicts wildly active hurricane season out of Atlantic and Caribbean
Americans were warned on Thursday to brace for an extremely active hurricane season - less than a year after the devastation of Sandy, which hit the east coast in October 2012 - with 13 to 20 named storms, including seven to ...
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Police helicopter crashes during chase in Venezuela 5 dead
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan authorities say a police helicopter has crashed while pursuing suspects in a kidnapping, and all five people aboard have been killed. Police spokesman Luis Karabin told state television that the helicopter went down Thursday in a forested area east of Caracas. The cause of the crash was not immediately clear, but Karabin cited atmospheric conditions. He said ...
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Maduros confused signals bode ill for Venezuelas recovery
Hugo Chavez , who died of cancer in March. This week the National Assembly passed funding that could make toilet paper available to Venezuelans. Maduro, who succeeded Chavez after a snap election in April, has pledged to solve Venezuela's endemic problems of shortages and slow growth and has also attempted to distance himself occasionally from Chavez. Conflicting statements on ...
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Canada Peru in military trade deal
The Canadian government and the government of Peru have agreed to cooperate on military equipment and services procurement. The office of the Prime Minister of Canada said Thursday the Memorandum of Understanding was signed Wednesday by the Canadian Commercial Corp. and the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Peru. "Under this agreement, the CCC will work with the Ministry of Defense ...
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Report At Least 1 London Terror Suspect is of Nigerian Descent
A picture of victim Drummer Lee Rigby, of the British Army's 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers is displayed with flowers left by mourners outside an army barracks near the scene of his killing in Woolwich, southeast London May 23, ...
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White House Fact Sheet on Counterterrorism Policy
Fact Sheet: U.S. Policy Standards and Procedures for the Use of Force in Counterterrorism Operations Outside the United States and Areas of Active Hostilities Since his first day in office, President Obama has been clear that the United States will use all available tools of national power to protect the American people from the terrorist threat posed by al-Qa’ida and its associated ...
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LIVE Obama Speaks on Counterterrorism
2001, we were shaken out of complacency. Thousands were taken from us, as clouds of fire, metal and ash descended upon a sun-filled morning. This was a different kind of war. No armies came to our shores, and our military was not the principal target. Instead, a group of terrorists came to kill as many civilians as they could. And so our nation went to war. We have now been at war for well ...
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Officials defend timing of storm alerts
Officials yesterday defended the timing of storm alerts amid cries from many residents that they were unprepared for the heavy downpour that flooded significant portions of New Providence. The thunderstorm passed over the island Tuesday evening and yesterday. Trevor Basden, senior deputy director at the Department of Meteorology, said proper alerts were issued on time. "We were tracking ...
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Floods send residents scrambling
Perry Walkine awoke Tuesday night to the sound of his kitchen cabinet falling and discovered that his entire apartment was flooded in five inches of water. Walkine, a retiree, lives in the government apartments on Sutton Street, off Lyon Road, in the Kemp Road area. "This is the first time that I have experienced such things with the water," he said. "Last night, one of my ...
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Kofhe Goodman trial postponed
The trial of a man accused of the murder of an 11-year-old boy did not proceed yesterday because of absent jurors. Kofhe Goodman, 40, is on trial for the September 2011 murder of Marco Archer. Goodman has denied the allegation at his trial before Justice Bernard Turner. The judge adjourned the trial to Friday because Goodman's lawyer, Geoffrey Farquharson, will be in the Court of Appeal ...
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Sentencing postponed in Prince Hepburn murder case
A judge yesterday postponed the sentencing of a man convicted of hacking his girlfriend to death. Prince Hepburn, 50, appeared before Justice Indra Charles for the sentencing phase of the murder trial for the death of Nellie Mae Brown-Cox. Charles adjourned the matter to May 30 because she had not received the psychiatric report she needed to determine sentencing. Hepburn, who was married, ...
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Turks and Caicos recovers cash land amid probe
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -; Officials in the Turks and Caicos Islands have recovered $19.5 million and more than 2,500 acres (1,000 hectares) of real estate as they continue to seize assets improperly obtained by corrupt ...
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Jamaica comes under foreign media's microscope
Jamaica is a country used to reductionism, the complex island nation has more often than not been reduced to a stereotype of marijuana-infused surfers that say “chill mun” and listen to reggae. Perhaps this is why the recent drug-related violence in the capital has shocked the western media so much, perhaps this is why it has been glorified and dramatized to the extent it has, or perhaps it’s a reflection of the same forces that shaped the beach-stoner stereotype in the first place.
There is more to Jamaica than beaches, Reggae and a ‘chilled’ island lifestyle. Jamaica is not a little island of just a few hundred people living in huts on a white, sandy beach. It’s an island nation of 2.8 million people and it has a history of brutal slavery and colonialism, the legacy of which is still being redressed, like any developing nation it has a number of social ills and many of the population work hard for little pay and live in less than desirable conditions. Read more
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