BEIJING (AP) — China says it is banning a United States research company and two analysts who have reported extensively on claims of human rights abuses
Read moreOn Christmas Eve, Bethlehem resembles a ghost town. Celebrations are halted due to Israel-Hamas war
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — The typically bustling biblical birthplace of Jesus resembled a ghost town Sunday after Christmas Eve celebrations in Bethlehem were called
Read moreRussian shelling kills 4 as Ukraine prepares to observe Christmas on Dec. 25 for the first time
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian shelling in southern Ukraine’s Kherson region killed four people Sunday, including an 87-year-old man and his 81-year-old wife who died
Read moreFirst output from Venezuela’s Dragon gas field expected in 2 years -Trinidad officials say
CARACAS (Reuters) — A natural gas project to be developed in Venezuelan waters by Shell and Trinidad and Tobago’s state firm National Gas Company could achieve
Read moreFormer Colombian soldier pleads guilty in 2021 assassination of Haiti’s president
MIAMI (AP) — A former Colombian soldier pleaded guilty Friday to conspiring in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, which plunged the Caribbean
Read moreVenezuela’s PDVSA to settle debt to Curacao refinery, seeks to supply oil
WILLEMSTAD (Reuters) — Venezuela’s state-run oil company Petróleos de Venezuela has signed an agreement to settle debts to Curacao’s refinery after ceasing operations in 2019,
Read moreCaribbean unemployment near decade low in 2023, may reverse next year, UN labor agency says
BRIDGETOWN (Reuters) — Unemployment in the Caribbean and Latin America fell in 2023 to its lowest level since 2014, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said
Read moreCocoa grown illegally in a Nigerian rainforest heads to companies that supply major chocolate makers
OMO FOREST RESERVE, Nigeria (AP) — Men in dusty workwear trudge through a thicket, making their way up a hill where sprawling plantations lay tucked
Read moreDiana Nyad marks anniversary of epic Cuba-Florida swim, freeing rehabilitated sea turtle in the Keys
KEY WEST (AP) — A decade after swimming the treacherous passage from Cuba to Key West, Diana Nyad returned Sunday to the beach where she completed
Read moreJamaican runner Christopher Taylor banned for avoiding a doping test and will miss Paris Olympics
MONACO (AP) — Jamaican runner Christopher Taylor was banned for 2½ years Friday for avoiding a doping test and will miss next year’s Paris Olympics. The Athletics
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