SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Venezuela said it was sending 2,000 soldiers to a border state that is a hotspot of anti-government radicalism after a night of looting in which one 15-year-old died as political unrest rumbled on in the volatile nation.
(Trinidad Express) State-owned Petrotrin has not yet responded to reports that the bunker fuel spilled from its Pointe-a-Pierre refinery has reached the shores of Venezuela.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil is concerned about growing numbers of refugees spilling over its border from Venezuela and is creating a plan to deal with a possible mass influx if the crisis in Venezuela worsens, Brazilian Defense Minister Raul Jungmann said yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) TWO MEN were shot dead in Marcano Quarry, Beverly Hills, yesterday, but even with scores of heavily-armed police and soldiers on the scene, a single shot rang out close to where the murder occurred, resulting in police, soldiers and media taking cover.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – The death toll in Venezuela’s six-week wave of anti-government unrest has risen to at least 42, according to the state prosecutor’s office, which announced three deaths yesterday.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo said yesterday he expects U.S.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian police yesterday opened two separate investigations into whether certain food companies improperly received favourable treatment from the Agriculture Ministry, the latest probe ensnaring the powerful farming sector.
(Trinidad Guardian) Some 15 squatters’ houses were demolished by a crew of police and soldiers at Pine Avenue, Valencia, early yesterday.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Opponents of President Nicolas Maduro staged sit-ins and roadblocks across Venezuela yesterday to press for elections, sparking new unrest.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Belo Horizonte in Brazil and Ede in the Netherlands may not have much in common at first sight, but both have become leaders in trying to tackle a growing challenge for the world’s cities – providing a reliable supply of nutritious food to residents.
(Trinidad Guardian) A 38-year-old man was murdered and another injured in a shooting at KFC’s St Helena outlet on Saturday night.
WASHINGTON/FRANKFURT, (Reuters) – Officials across the globe scrambled over the weekend to catch the culprits behind a massive ransomware worm that disrupted operations at car factories, hospitals, shops and schools, while Microsoft yesterday pinned blame on the U.S.
(Trinidad Express) Massy Group chairman Robert Bermudez has said after the sale of Massy Communications to majority State-owned TSTT, the company “will exit the telecommunications in-dustry, avoiding further losses from this business and significant capital expenditure which would be required to build out a complete fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network”.
(Trinidad Express) The Govern-ment has hit a bump in its move to acquire CLICO’s shareholding of Home Construction Ltd (HCL).
BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – Dutch brewer Heineken has launched a non-alcoholic version of its namesake beer with the aim of becoming the global leader in a part of the market growing faster than the average.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela-born fashion designer Carolina Herrera yesterday lamented the killing of her nephew in the crisis-torn country, in what authorities called an apparent kidnapping.
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Nene Constantino Oliveira, patriarch of the family that created Brazilian airline Gol , has been found guilty of homicide in connection with the 2001 murder of an activist who led a group of squatters occupying land owned by the family, a court in Brasilia said on Friday.
(Trinidad Guardian) A father who was leading a fund raising drive to save his daughter’s life was murdered outside his Diego Martin home on Thursday night.
SAO PAULO/BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s combative testimony before a federal judge this week did little to dismantle the graft case against him and improve his chances of securing a new term in office.
In an address to the nation on Tuesday night, St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister, Dr.
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