Story highlights Two U.S. officials say the embassy staffers shot in Venezuela are military officials The officials were shot at the Antonella 2012 club, a police spokeswoman says The State Department says the officials’ injuries are not life-threatening Caracas, Venezuela CNN — Two U.S. embassy officials were wounded Tuesday in a shooting, apparently at a […]
CNN — Gold’s Gym owner Rainer Schaller, his family and two others are feared dead after a plane they were on apparently crashed off Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast on Friday, officials said. The Costa Rican Ministry of Public Security posted on Facebook on Friday saying a plane heading from Mexico to Limon, Costa Rica, lost […]
A rescue dog turned police mascot has become one of Brazil’s most beloved furry internet sensations. Dubbed “Corporal Oliveira,” the dog was taken in by Rio police officer Cristiano Oliveira, who found him in 2019 near his police station abandoned, injured and hungry. The dog – decked out in a police uniform with a toy […]
CNN — Here’s a look at Haiti. Haiti makes up he western one-third of the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean. The eastern two-thirds of the island is the Dominican Republic. (from the CIA World Factbook)Area: 27,750 sq km (slightly smaller than Maryland) Population: 11,334,637 (2022 est.) Median age: 24.1 years Capital: Port-au-Prince Ethnic Groups: […]
CNN — Mexican authorities are searching for gunmen who killed at least 12 people and injured three more after opening fire in a bar in central Mexico on Saturday evening. Gunshots were reported at the bar in the city of Irapuato in the central state of Guanajuato at close to 8 p.m. local time Saturday, […]
CNN — Wildfires burning in British Columbia and Washington state have triggered an air quality advisory for metro Vancouver, according to a Metro Vancouver district press release. The smoke is contributing to high concentrations of fine particulate matter in the area, which pose the greatest risk to health, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency. […]
Story highlights Cuba’s Fidel Castro dominated the small island nation for decades Castro commanded worldwide attention from a relatively small stage CNN — Fidel Castro, the Cuban despot who famously proclaimed after his arrest in a failed coup attempt that history would absolve him, has died at age 90. Castro’s brother and the nation’s President, […]
Story highlights Colombia’s lower house of Congress unanimously approved peace accord Deal marks end of more than five decades of conflict, giving FARC 150 days to lay down weapons CNN — Colombia’s Congress has approved a historic peace agreement that will lead to the disarming of rebels in the 52-year conflict. The lower house Wednesday […]
CNN — “The news hit me like a bucket of cold water,” says Alejaidys Morey, a 30-year-old Venezuelan woman, who until this week was planning to start traveling towards the United States. On Wednesday, the US announced that it is expanding Title 42 — a pandemic-era provision that allows migration officials to expel illegal migrants […]
CNN — In the almost complete darkness before midnight in the Caribbean Sea, a scream suddenly pierces the crash of the waves and wind. “This is the Coast Guard. Stop your engines!”, an officer screams. Powerful flashlights reveal a 32-foot, single-engine boat, crowded with immigrants — some of them small children — lying on the […]
