URDA, Spain, (Reuters) – At least 68 people died when two Spanish high-speed trains collided today, with rescuers scouring the wreckage for more bodies after Spain’s second deadly rail accident this year and Europe’s deadliest since 2013.
(Trinidad Express) Nicholas Ramlal, the 20-year-old man who was charged with murdering his mother and teenage sister earlier this month has been remanded into prison custody after making his first court appearance on Tuesday.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Three brothers convicted of exploiting their access to wealth and high society in New York and Miami to drug and rape women were each sentenced yesterday to 30 years in prison.
(Trinidad Express) Attorney-at-law and former police officer Taradath Singh, who survived a gun attack outside his Cunupia home last month, was shot dead outside a school in Charlieville on Tuesday evening.
LONDON/NASSAU, (Reuters) – King Charles on Tuesday acknowledged the injustices of slavery, saying Commonwealth leaders would discuss the issue at their summit next week, against the backdrop of increasingly vocal demands from the Caribbean that Britain pays reparations for its role in the slave trade.
(Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday that Ukrainian forces were retaking territory through a series of offensives, including one operation previously unannounced in which Kyiv’s troops used gas pipelines to outflank Russian positions.
JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israel’s election appeared to end in deadlock today, exit polls showed, leaving neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor rival Gadi Eisenkot with a clear path to forming a government and raising the prospect of prolonged coalition bargaining or another election.
(Reuters) – Around 1,000 soldiers from El Salvador have been sent to Haiti in a string of deployments in recent days after four Salvadoran members of the UN-backed force in Haiti went missing, a security official in Haiti told Reuters today.
DAKAR, (Reuters) – An Islamic State-aligned insurgency in eastern Congo generates most of its revenue from gold production and smuggling, allowing it to finance its own operations, a report said on Tuesday.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump said on Monday that leftist incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s surprise win in Brazil’s presidential vote “looked like another rigged election,” although the party of defeated right-winger Flavio Bolsonaro later acknowledged the result.
-concerned at amount of cars in Barbados Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has called for scrutiny of telecommunications services amid plans by a provider to increase broadband rates, saying consumers must receive answers about service quality and their rights.
(Reuters) – US President Donald Trump told reporters today, without citing evidence, that the Brazilian election, which leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won yesterday, looked like it had been rigged.
LONDON, (Reuters) – US singer Chris Brown was spared an immediate prison sentence in Britain on Monday for attacking a music producer with a tequila bottle in a London nightclub in 2023, with his fans cheering as the musician walked free from court.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – World leaders hailed the victory of Brazil’s leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in yesterday’s presidential election runoff, as he defeated right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro to secure a fourth non-consecutive term.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won a historic fourth term yesterday, the country’s electoral court said, in a shock result that defied polls, precedent and global anti-incumbent sentiment to put the brakes on a wave of right-wing election victories across Latin America.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won an unprecedented fourth term today, the country’s electoral court said, in a shock result that defied polls, precedent and global anti-incumbent sentiment to put the brakes on a wave of right-wing election victories across Latin America.
BELGRADE, (Reuters) – Serbia’s Aleksandar Vucic conceded defeat to a student-led protest movement in a historic election todaythat ends his long grip on power and heralds a new political era in the Balkan country.
(Trinidad Guardian) Local contractor, NH International (Caribbean), has secured a US$243 million (EC$666 million) contract to expand St Lucia’s Hewanorra International Airport, even as construction firms T&T continue to raise concerns about delayed payments and the slow rollout of government projects.
CARACAS/BARQUISIMETO, (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado returned home today after nearly a year away, and after several failed attempts to return that strained her ties with US President Donald Trump’s administration.
(Reuters) – Borr Drilling’s Prospector 5 drilling rig sank late yesterday off the coast of Mayumba, Gabon, killing one worker and leaving four others missing among the 115 people on board, officials and the company said today.
