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20 Aug, 2026
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Hong Kong conglomerate seeks $1.5 billion in damages from Panama for takeover of canal ports
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison said Thursday it was seeking more than $1.5 billion in damages from Panama after the country seized two canal ports caught in the crosshairs of…
19 Aug, 2026
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Prince Harry and Meghan moving family back to the UK
LONDON (AP) – Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, have decided to return to the United Kingdom, but they won't resume their roles as working members of the royal family, Britain's Daily…
19 Aug, 2026
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Peru targets Amazon gold rush
Eight Peruvian navy personnel jumped from a helicopter into a clearing carved out of the Amazon rainforest by illegal gold miners along the Malinowski River in Peru’s Madre de Dios region, sending…
19 Aug, 2026
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Opposition wants election security
PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC): Haitian politician and lawyer André Michel has called for “a minimum level of security” to be restored before elections are held in the French-speaking Caribbean Community…
19 Aug, 2026
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Gov’t shortlisting firms for ‘MV Barima’ salvage
GEORGETOWN (CMC): The Guyana government has begun shortlisting companies to salvage the sunken MV Barima, nearly a month after the ferry disaster claimed at least 73 lives and left more than 30 people…
19 Aug, 2026
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Watchdog calls for US import ban over forced labour in DR sugar cane fields
SAN JUAN (AP): A report released yesterday by a human-rights group found that forced labour persists on massive sugar cane plantations across the Dominican Republic, which exports sugar and other…
19 Aug, 2026
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Gov’t pushes to revive case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia
NASHVILLE (AP): The Justice Department is pushing to revive criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, telling a federal appeals court that a judge erred in his scathing ruling that called the…
19 Aug, 2026
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Country agrees to accept 1,200 US deportees
MONROVIA (AP): Liberia has agreed to accept up to 1,200 third-country deportees from the United States, authorities in the West African country said yesterday, in one of the largest such arrangements…
19 Aug, 2026
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Rowley presses gov’t on US visa bans
PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): Former Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has called on the Trinidad and Tobago government to disclose how many citizens have had their United States visas revoked after Washington…