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US Virgin Islands reach US$105M settlement with…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The US Virgin Islands announced Wednesday that it reached a settlement of more than US$105 million in a sex trafficking case against the estate of financier Jeffrey…

Supreme Court wrestles with Biden’s deportation…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday wrestled with a partisan-tinged dispute over a Biden administration policy that would prioritise the deportation of people in the country illegally who…

Biden eases Venezuela sanctions as opposition…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Saturday eased some oil sanctions on Venezuela in an effort to support newly restarted negotiations between President Nicolás Maduro's government and its…

Japan beat Germany in second World Cup shock…

Source: Independent, Goals from substitutes Ritsu Doan and Takuma Asano in the last 15 minutes gave Japan a stunning 2-1 upset over four-times champions Germany in their World Cup Group E opener on…

Barbados decision to become a republic prompts…

PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): Secretary General of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, Stephen Twigg, on Monday said Barbados’ decision to become a republic had prompted “a lot of discussion around the…

Ground-breaking MOU signed at COP27 sees global…

Sharm el Sheikh, 21 November 2022 – Strengthening the reach and impact of the world’s risk pools is the key objective of a Memorandum of Understanding between African Risk Capacity Limited (ARC Ltd.),…

COP27 delivers climate fund breakthrough at cost…

Source: IBT Countries closed this year's U.N. climate summit on Sunday with a hard-fought deal to create a fund to help poor countries being battered by climate disasters, even as many lamented its…

Students From The Caribbean And Central America…

News Americas, NEW YORK, NY,  Students from 12 schools in 9 countries in the Caribbean and Central America will have a direct conversation with an astronaut in the International Space Station on…

Fight over aid for climate losses divides UN talks

SHARM EL-SHEIKH (AP): With an end-of-the-week deadline rushing at them faster than agreements are coming out of them, negotiators at the UN climate summit were in a difficult spot on Wednesday. Talks…