MONTEVIDEO, (Reuters) – The World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) ruled in favour of Uruguay yesterday in a suit filed by Philip Morris International seeking compensation for economic damages caused by the nation’s anti-tobacco measures.
SEOUL, (Reuters) – South Korea and the United States said on Friday they would deploy an advanced missile defence system in South Korea to counter the threat from nuclear-armed North Korea, drawing a sharp and swift protest from neighbouring China.
WARSAW, (Reuters) – NATO leaders agreed yesterday to deploy military forces to the Baltic states and eastern Poland for the first time and increase air and sea patrols to reassure allies who were once part of the Soviet bloc following Russia’s seizure of Crimea from Ukraine.
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The United States has tentatively approved flights on eight U.S.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – When Venezuelan customs worker Jose Antonio Arriaga signed a petition seeking a recall referendum against President Nicolas Maduro, he suspected it could cost him his job.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s army will up their fight against dissident FARC rebels and crime gangs across the nation even after a peace accord is signed with the Marxist group, the head of the army said, in a bid to prevent other armed groups and drug traffickers from taking over rebel territory.
LONDON, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The Brazilian government has strongly criticized a call by two U.S.
(Trinidad Guardian) The decomposing bodies of Anika Gabriel and her baby were found on a bed at their South Oropouche home by the baby’s father yesterday morning. Three
BARCELONA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – For developing countries seeking to turn their national climate action plans into reality, help will soon be at hand in the form of a support service announced by the German government and the U.S.-based
(Jamaica Observer) The Bruce Golding-led Caricom Review Commis-sion indicated on Tuesday that the current dispute between the Government of Antigua and Barbuda and Jamaican-owned Sandals Resorts International (SRI) had come up on its radar, in respect of the issue of perceived unfair practices.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba faces a cash crunch and must ration energy in a bid to avoid blackouts and spare essential services, Economy Minister Marino Murillo was cited as saying by state-run media yesterday.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Two nephews of Venezuela’s first lady accused of conspiring to import cocaine into the United States say they feared for their lives after being arrested at a Haiti hotel last year as they thought they were being kidnapped due to their political ties.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s lawyers asked yesterday that crusading federal judge Sergio Moro be removed from a corruption investigation involving the former president, arguing he had shown a lack of impartiality.
(Trinidad Guardian) A Hardbargain family who offered their home as refuge to a relative who was being hunted by criminals, suffered a tragic fate yesterday morning when two of their relatives were killed and two others injured by gunmen who stormed their house.
RIO DE JANEIRO/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Petrobras has warned its Indian partners in a huge offshore project to not expect oil from the site until 2022, according to sources, a fresh sign of how low oil prices and the state-owned company’s corruption scandal and mountain of debt are dragging on Brazil’s energy industry.
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s federal police served five arrest warrants and conducted search and seizure operations in three states yesterday, in the latest round of a sweeping corruption probe around state-run oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA.
(Trinidad Guardian) Two non-functioning traffic lights at the intersection of the Bypass Connector Road and St Helena Bypass Road are being blamed for the death of two pilots in a car accident yesterday afternoon.
(Trinidad Guardian) The T&T economy stands to benefit financially from the presence of the Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR) in this country, so says CEO of TKR Venky Mysore.
(Trinidad Guardian) – Days before his passing, former prime minister Patrick Manning told his wife he knew he was dying.
(Trinidad Guardian) Bankers are frustrated over the long awaited passage and implementation of legislation for T&T to become FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act) compliant.
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