MOSCOW — Sri Lanka has demanded compensation from Russia for 17 of its citizens who have been killed fighting for Russia in its war against Ukraine. It is also demanding that its soldiers be released…
WASHINGTON —Senior U.S. and Venezuelan officials restarted talks today, with Washington saying it urged President Nicolas Maduro’s government to ensure that elections scheduled for July 28 will be “competitive and inclusive.” Venezuela’s chief negotiator Jorge Rodriguez said…
ST. GEORGE’S — Grenada’s prime minister described sweeping destruction on the Caribbean nation’s island of Carriacou as “almost Armageddon-like” in the wake of Hurricane Beryl. The storm made landfall on the tiny island on Monday as a…
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Officers regained control of a police station in Haiti’s capital that had been the target of armed gangs in recent months, authorities said Monday. The station in Gressier, located in the western…
KINGSTON — Jamaica is bracing for a near-direct strike from Category 4 Hurricane Beryl today, after the record-breaking storm left multiple people dead on islands in the eastern Caribbean. The Cayman Islands and Mexico’s Yucatan…
Multiple deaths have been reported in Carriacou, Petite Martinique, Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, officials on those islands said Tuesday as Hurricane Beryl continues to pummel the Caribbean as a Category 5 storm. Grenadian Prime Minister Dickon…
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Gang violence in Haiti has displaced more than 300,000 children since March, the U.N. children’s agency said Tuesday as the Caribbean country struggles to curb killings and kidnappings. Children are more than…
Hurricane Beryl’s explosive growth into an unprecedented early whopper of a storm shows the literal hot water the Atlantic and Caribbean are in right now and the kind of season ahead, experts said. Beryl smashed multiple records…
KINGSTON (AP) — Hurricane Beryl roared through open waters today as a monstrous Category 5 storm on a path that would take it near Jamaica and the Cayman Islands after earlier making landfall in the…
SAINT GEORGE’S (AP) — A dangerous and extremely powerful Hurricane Beryl made landfall Monday on the Caribbean island of Carriacou after becoming the earliest storm of Category 4 strength to form in the Atlantic, fueled by record warm…