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Caribbean on alert as Beryl set to become major hurricane

Much of the southeast Caribbean went on alert Saturday as forecasters projected Tropical Storm Beryl would rapidly strengthen over the next 24-48 hours to...

US monitoring dozens of holiday cruise ships hit by COVID-19

MIAMI, United States—US authorities on Sunday were monitoring dozens of cruise ships hit by COVID-19 cases, with several reportedly denied port in the Caribbean. Over...

Haiti police hunt down president’s assassins

Port-au-Prince— Haitian police killed four “mercenaries” they said were behind the assassination of President Jovenel Moise Wednesday and took two more into custody, as...

1m Latin America deaths as IMF plans to end virus

MONTEVIDEO—Latin America and the Caribbean passed one million coronavirus deaths on Friday as the IMF proposed a $50 billion plan to end the pandemic,...

Costa Cruises probed over Caribbean Covid deaths: judicial sources

French investigators are probing manslaughter allegations against Italy's Costa Cruises over its handling of Covid-19 cases onboard one of its ships, which claimed the...

Latin America, Caribbean briefly overtakes N. America in virus cases

Coronavirus cases in Latin America and the Caribbean surged on Sunday, briefly overtaking the total in North America, an AFP tally showed. As the worldwide...

Number of global virus cases tops 16 million: AFP tally

The global number of coronavirus cases crossed 16 million on Sunday, more than half of them in the Americas and the Caribbean, according to...

Latin America and Caribbean record 500,000 virus cases

Latin America and the Caribbean have recorded more than half a million coronavirus infections, according to an AFP tally based on official reports.  Almost half...

Que triste para Cuba!

How sad for Cuba! But, before I tell you why, let me first share with you my impressions of this country in the Caribbean. During...

Budapest’s underwater wonderland draws divers from far and wide

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The science of resilience

As I am writing this, wildfires rage in the wine country of California. A month ago and several states away, two storms battered the...

‘Irma’-affected Pinoys face repatriation

The Department of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday said it would repatriate more than 200 Filipinos from several islands in the Caribbean that were devastated...

Hurricane Irma shatters homes, multiple records

FLORIDA, USA—Hurricane Irma, rampaging across the Caribbean towards the Bahamas and south Florida, is smashing not only homes and hotels but weather records as...

Turks, Caicos bracing for hurricane

LONDON"•The Turks and Caicos islands were bracing for Hurricane Irma on Thursday as the storm hurtled through the Caribbean at breakneck speeds. The government of...
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