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Gov’t revives longstanding shares dispute with ECAB – threatens legal, political actions over ‘obstruction’
The Antigua Observer
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July 25, 2025
- Advertisement - By Robert Andre Emmanuel [email protected] Prime Minister Gaston Browne has revived his longstanding feud with the Eastern Caribbean Amalgamated Bank (ECAB) over what he continues to describe as “bureaucratic tactics” aimed at...
Murderer who slipped into prisoner exchange deal with Venezuela is walking free in the US
El País
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July 25, 2025
Dahud Hanid Ortiz, a U.S. citizen repatriated from Venezuela as part of a three-way prisoner exchange with El Salvador, disappeared last week after he landed in Texas on a flight chartered by the Donald Trump administration. He was waving a small...
Haiti sends 150 soldiers to Mexico for training as gang violence surges
Associated Press
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July 25, 2025
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s government announced Friday that it has sent 150 soldiers to Mexico for training in the latest effort to fight back gangs that have gained almost entire control of the troubled country’s capital. Under the...
Bipartisan Bills Target China’s Human Rights Violations Amid US–China Trade Talks
The Epoch Times
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July 29, 2025
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) (L), joined by Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) chair Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) (R), speaks during a press conference discussing the implications of the Safeguarding National Security Bill (Article 23...
Government to use space outside Botanical Garden for República de Colombia Avenue expansion
Dominican Today
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Santo Domingo.- The Ministry of Public Works announced that the expansion of República de Colombia Avenue will include the use of space outside the perimeter fence of the Dr. Rafael M. Moscoso National Botanical Garden to build a new traffic lane....
Water wars: a historic agreement between Mexico and US is ramping up border tension
The Conversation
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July 25, 2025
As climate change drives rising temperatures and changes in rainfall, Mexico and the US are in the middle of a conflict over water, putting an additional strain on their relationship. Partly due to constant droughts, Mexico has struggled to...
'We lived through hell,' say Venezuelans released from mega-prison in El Salvador
BBC
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July 25, 2025
Gustavo OcandoReporting for BBC Mundo from Maracaibo, Venezuela ShareSave Mervin Yamarte says his tattoos led to him being mistaken in the US for a gang member and deported to El Salvador "We lived through hell," says 29-year-old Mervin Yamarte as...
Armenia`s first ambassador to Colombia starts his mission
Arminfo
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ArmInfo. Ambassador of Armenia to Colombia Armen Yeganyan (residence - Brazil) presented his credentials to President of Colombia Gustavo Petro at the Narino Palace in Bogota, becoming the first ambassador of Armenia accredited in this country. As...
ICE continues to hold Ohio cleric. His defenders say the government’s claims are bogus
Ohio Capital Journal
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July 25, 2025
The Trump administration is continuing its efforts to deport an Ohio cleric using what the cleric’s defenders say is a shifting, false rationale. Meanwhile, Covington, Ky., authorities are walking back some of their charges against two journalists...
Mexico mandates biometric digital ID system in major overhaul of national identification
Natural News
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July 23, 2025
Mexico mandates biometric digital ID system in major overhaul of national identification Mexico has made its previously voluntary CURP (Unique Population Registry Code) a mandatory digital ID, now embedded with biometric data such as fingerprints,...
August increase in Mexico tariffs could strain Texas economy
San Antonio Current - Texas
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July 25, 2025
click to enlarge Reuters / Jose Luis Gonzalez Trucks line up at the Zaragoza-Ysleta bridge to cross the border between Mexico and the United States in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on April 2, 2025. Importers and exporters based in Texas have so far...
Asian American Motherhood Has Always Been Political
Sampan
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July 25, 2025
On August 24, 1874, Chy Lung stood on the deck of the steamship Japan, watching San Francisco’s harbor come into view. After a long, arduous journey from China, she was ready to disembark and begin her new life. What she couldn’t have anticipated...
Brazil’s Finance Minister says online betting should never have been allowed
Gambling Insider
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Fernando Haddad says he would end betting platforms if it were up to him. By Gambling Insider Key points: - Minister said he would ban online gambling if possible - The Finance Ministry is working with the Central Bank and may involve the Federal...
Trinidad Defence Minister reveals shocking breach: 65-inch TV in jail cell
Stabroek News
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July 25, 2025
(Trinidad Guardian) Prison officers are so fearful of the criminal element behind bars that at least one of them was afforded the luxury of a 65-inch TV in his cell, while guns and other contraband items are easily trafficked into the prison...
16-year-olds to be given vote at next election in landmark change
The Independent (U.S.)
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July 25, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Deported Venezuelan Jailed In El Salvador Lodges Official Complaint Against U.S.
StratNews Global
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July 25, 2025
Home Central America Deported Venezuelan Jailed In El Salvador Lodges Official Complaint Against U.S. Neiyerver Adrián Leon Rengel, 27, filed what it called an administrative complaint with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, contending that...
Still digging 2025: Tracking global coal mine proposals
Global Energy Monitor - California
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July 29, 2025
In 2024, newly-opened coal mines added a total of 105 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa) of production capacity to the global coal mining industry — a 46% decline from 2023 (193 Mtpa) and the smallest production capacity increase in a decade. This...
Venezuela’s returning migrants allege abuses in El Salvador’s ‘hell’ prison where U.S. sent them
Los Angeles Times
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July 23, 2025
LOBATERA, Venezuela — Carlos Uzcátegui tightly hugged his sobbing wife and stepdaughter on Wednesday as the morning fog in western Venezuela lifted. The family’s first embrace in more than a year finally convinced him that his nightmare inside a...
Why Trump may have an incentive to leverage crypto into Silicon Valley’s political downfall
The London School of Economics and Political Science
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July 23, 2025
Corporate power in America often means that politicians, including presidents, have difficulty in confronting business elites. Nikhil Kalyanpur writes that Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s recent falling out is an unusual example of a president taking...
Fronteras: Film ‘Spring of the Vanishing’ sheds lights on dozens of people who disappeared at the hands of Mexican marines
Texas Public Radio
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July 25, 2025
Thousands of people have been killed across Mexico following violence that first erupted in 2006 with the county’s declaration on the war on drugs. Thousands more are still missing. But it wasn’t just drug cartels doing the vanishing. Marines with...