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GENEVA/ZURICH,  (Reuters) – Switzerland for all its snow-capped mountains and crisp Alpine air has failed to protect its people from the ravages of climate change, as a top European court ruled this week.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Long-simmering tensions between China and its neighbors took centre stage yesterday as leaders of the U.S.,

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. officials met representatives of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in Mexico this week to express concerns about Venezuela’s electoral process, a White House official said today.

(Trinidad Guardian) The parents of at least seven babies who died between April 2 and April 9 at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital are calling for a full investigation into the circumstances surrounding their babies’ deaths.

(Trinidad Guardian) Thousands of gallons of bunker fuels still remain inside the overturned barge just off the coast of Tobago, more than two months after the barge, identified as Gulfstream, crashed into a coral bed, according to THA Chief Secretary Farley Augustine.

ExxonMobil today said that it has made a final investment decision for the Whiptail development offshore Guyana, after receiving the required government and regulatory approvals.

SANTIAGO,  (Reuters) – Chilean President Gabriel Boric recalled his country’s ambassador in Caracas for consultations, he said in a post on X today, citing remarks by Venezuela’s foreign minister about criminal organization Tren de Aragua.

(Field Level Media) O.J. Simpson, a Pro Football Hall of Fame running back who was accused of, and ultimately acquitted, in the 1994 killings of his former wife and her friend in “The Trial of the Century,” has died after a battle with cancer.

Clinton Chase, the 70-year-old unemployed resident of Lot 148 Middle Road, La Penitence, Georgetown, who was found dead on April 7th, 2024, at 22:30 hrs on the northern parapet in front of his died from multiple gunshot injuries.

The police yesterday issued a bulletin for Stephon Branford over the murder of Courtney Young in Sophia on March 21st.

Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC has acted upon the instructions of President Irfaan Ali and issued instructions to ministries on the establishment of units to assess where projects are experiencing unjustifiable delays or there is evidence of poor work.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Russian missiles and drones destroyed a large electricity plant near Kyiv and hit power facilities in several regions of Ukraine today, officials said, ramping up pressure on the embattled energy system as Kyiv runs low on air defences.

ORENBURG, Russia, (Reuters) – The Russian city of Orenburg battled rising water levels today after major rivers across Russia and Kazakhstan burst their banks in the worst flooding seen in the areas in nearly a century.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Principal Director of National Integrity Action (NIA) Danielle Archer is calling for the urgent repeal of the Official Secrets Act, arguing that the more current Protected Disclosures Act, or whistleblower legislation, cannot succeed alongside the archaic, colonial law.

HANOI,  (Reuters) – A court in Vietnam handed the death sentence today to real estate tycoon Truong My Lan for her role in a 304-trillion-dong ($12.5-billion) financial fraud, the country’s biggest on record, state media said.

(Trinidad Express) Making the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Trinidad and Tobago’s final appellate court would be one of the highest honours that could be given to the court’s first president, Michael de la Bastide, says Law Association (LATT) presi­dent Lynette Seebaran-Suite, SC.

ORENBURG, Russia,  (Reuters) – Floods engulfed cities and towns across Russia and Kazakhstan today after Europe’s third-longest river burst its banks, forcing about 110,000 people to evacuate and swamping parts of the Russian city of Orenburg.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Former Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg was sentenced on Wednesday to five months in jail after pleading guilty last month to perjury charges for lying to investigators and a judge about Donald Trump’s finances.

VATICAN CITY,  (Reuters) – A representative of Brazil’s Yanomami people said he met Pope Francis today to ask him to support Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s efforts to save his indigenous people.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India’s top court admonished the head of a state drugs regulator for failing to take action against a popular yoga guru’s firm which claimed its traditional ayurvedic medicines can cure chronic diseases such as diabetes and asthma.