MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Wednesday the U.S. Congress should focus on investing in people instead of building walls, hours before he was set to meet Secretary of State Antony Blinken to discuss migration to the United States. President Joe Biden‘s administration is seeking help from Lopez Obrador’s […]
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — One of Brazil’s top criminal leaders was locked up in a 6-square-meter (65-square-foot) isolation cell at a maximum security prison to avoid being killed by rivals, authorities said Tuesday. Luiz Antônio da Silva Braga, the boss of the largest militia group in the state of Rio de Janeiro, surrendered to […]
A well-known preacher wants to help lessen South Florida’s housing crisis by bringing affordable apartments to the region. The Rev. T.D. Jakes and his real estate arm are planning rental complexes in Miami Gardens and Hallandale Beach. His company, Reverend T.D. Jakes Real Estate Ventures, has announced a partnership with Miami real estate developer New […]
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Tuesday released a sardonic statement about his transfer to a Arctic prison colony nicknamed the “Polar Wolf,” his first appearance since associates lost contact with him three weeks ago. Navalny, the most prominent and persistent domestic foe of President Vladimir Putin, is serving a 19-year sentence […]
COSHOCTON − After nearly 35 years of working for soil and water conservation, Deb Bigelow said it’s time to see what else life has to offer. Bigelow will retire at the end of the year as administrator of the Coshocton County Soil and Water Conservation District. District Technician Ryan Medley will be taking over her […]
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, whose country’s relations with Russia grew tense this year, said Monday that when Armenia takes the rotating chairmanship of a Moscow-dominated economic alliance he will try to suppress politics obstructing regional integration. Armenia is to become the chairman country of the Eurasian Economic Union in 2024. […]
FILE – Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko speaks during a meeting with foreign correspondents, July 6, 2023, in Minsk, Belarus. On Monday, Dec. 25, Lukashenko said that Russia has completed its shipments of tactical nuclear weapons to his country, an initiative that raised strong concerns in neighboring Poland and elsewhere in the region. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, […]
Alexei Navalny has been moved to the IK-3 penal colony, his spokesperson said on X. Earlier this month, Navalny’s lawyers said they had lost contact with him. Navalny is an outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin. After a nearly three-week disappearance, incarcerated Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has reappeared at a third penal colony. Earlier […]
MOSCOW (AP) — Associates of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Monday that he has been located at a prison colony above the Arctic Circle nearly three weeks after contact with him was lost. Navalny, the most prominent foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is serving a 19-year sentence on charges of extremism. He […]
Associates of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said on Monday that he has been located at a prison colony above the Arctic Circle, nearly three weeks after contact with him was lost. Mr Navalny, the most prominent foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is serving a 19-year sentence on charges of extremism. He had […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican leader of Wisconsin’s Assembly who had threatened possible impeachment of a new liberal state Supreme Court justice over her views on redistricting now says such a move is “super unlikely.” Assembly Speaker Robin Vos originally threatened to impeach Justice Janet Protasiewicz if she did not recuse herself from the […]
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country has a policy of not hesitating to launch a nuclear strike on its rivals if provoked, state media reported. It comes as he praised troops involved in the country’s recent intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test. Since adopting an escalatory nuclear doctrine last year, Mr Kim has […]