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Centres open for rare Ebola strain that killed nearly 120

SHKINASA (AP): Congo will open three Ebola treatment centres in the eastern Ituri province, and the World Health Organization is sending a team of experts to the country, following an outbreak of a…
Updated 18 hours ago

Maduro ally is charged in bribery case after deportation to US

MIAMI (AP): A close ally of ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was charged yesterday with bribing top officials to steal hundreds of millions of dollars from lucrative contracts to import…
Updated 9 hours ago

Federal judge bans most arrests by federal agents in immigration courts in New York

Federal agents can no longer make arrests without exceptional circumstances in and around three Manhattan buildings where immigration proceedings occur, a judge ruled Monday.
Updated 9 hours ago

Prince William to sell estate stake to fund housing, green projects

LONDON (AP): Prince William’s Duchy of Cornwall plans to sell about 20 per cent of its £1 billion (US$1.3 billion) property portfolio over the next decade to consolidate its holdings and finance…
Updated 8 hours ago

Talks begin with Ukraine on minority rights

BUDAPEST (AP): Hungary and Ukraine will begin consultations on the rights of Ukraine’s ethnic Hungarian minority, the countries’ foreign ministers said yesterday an early sign that strained relations…
Updated 7 hours ago

Guyana gov’t issues warning to public transport owners over increasing fares

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana government on Tuesday said it has “neither approved nor sanctioned” any increase in fares across all modes of public transportation, including minibuses, hire…
Updated 4 hours ago

WHO worries about Ebola outbreak’s scale and speed as Congo announces 134 deaths

BUNIA, Congo (AP) — The World Health Organization director-general openly worried Tuesday over the “scale and speed” of an outbreak of a rare type of Ebola in eastern Congo, where authorities reported…
Updated 2 hours ago

Man in St Vincent jailed for fatally hitting friend with rum bottle during dispute

A High Court judge has sentenced a 56-year-old fisherman to 10 years in prison after he was found guilty of causing the death of his friend, Cameron Alexander, a security guard, whom he struck in the…
Updated 1 hour ago

Opposition leaders in Bahamas demand probe after US ties politician to drug trafficking case

Opposition leaders in the Bahamas are demanding an investigation into a suspected drug trafficker who survived a recent plane crash near Florida and was allegedly found with roughly US$30,000,…