At the end of October, a presidential candidate stirred up old memories when proposing to send corrupt politicians to Colombia’s notorious former island prison of Gorgona. No one took the threat seriously but it did pique interest about a little known part of Colombia’s history that could be compared to Alcatraz or Robben Island. Right …
Pope Francis will on Sunday return to the island of Lesbos, the migration flashpoint he first visited in 2016, to plead for better treatment of refugees as attitudes towards immigrants harden across Europe. On the second day of a landmark trip to Greece Francis will tour the temporary camp of Mavrovouni, where nearly 2,200 asylum …
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Pope Francis will on Sunday return to the island of Lesbos, the migration flashpoint he first visited in 2016, to plead for better treatment of refugees as attitudes towards migrants harden across Europe. On the second day of a landmark trip to Greece, Francis will visit the temporary camp of Mavrovouni, where nearly 2,200 asylum …
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A house on Haleiwa Road is surrounded by floodwaters Tuesday, March 9, 2021, in Haleiwa, Hawaii. Torrential rains have inundated parts of Hawaii for the past several days. (Jamm Aquino/Honolulu Star-Advertiser via AP) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 3:35 PM PT – Saturday, March 13, 2021 A community on the Hawaiian island of Kauai has been, once again, …
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Dr. Richard Quinn, his daughter clinical nurse Aoife Gallagher and Sgt Niall O’Connor carry boxes as Moderna coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines are delivered by helicopter to Arranmore Island, Ireland March 11, 2021. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne March 11, 2021 By Clodagh Kilcoyne ARRANMORE, Ireland (Reuters) – The army pilots landed their helicopter on the tiny Irish island …
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FILE PHOTO: The sign of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is pictured at its headquarters in Beijing, China July 27, 2020. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang/File Photo February 5, 2021 By Jonathan Barrett and Praveen Menon SYDNEY/WELLINGTON (Reuters) – Pacific island nations are turning to the China-backed AIIB development bank to plug funding gaps in their pandemic-ravaged budgets …
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On Wednesday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison will join fellow Pacific leaders at a virtual retreat to discuss the region’s response to the CCP virus pandemic. The online forum will see 17 leaders from the Pacific, whose security and prosperity are intertwined, come together to address the health and economic challenges posed by the pandemic. “The …
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December 28, 2020 By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) – Bangladesh will move a second group of Rohingya refugees to a low-lying island in the Bay of Bengal on Tuesday, officials said, despite calls by rights groups to stop the relocation on safety grounds. More than 1,100 Rohingya refugees, members of a Muslim minority who have …
FILE PHOTO: Rohingya refugees are seen aboard a ship as they are moved to Bhasan Char island in Chattogram, Bangladesh, Dec. 4, 2020. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain/File Photo December 27, 2020 By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) – Bangladesh is set to move a second batch of Rohingya refugees from neighbouring Myanmar to the remote island of …
December 9, 2020 By Tom Bergin and Ron Bousso (Reuters) – Bermuda and the Bahamas aren’t exactly big players in the oil-and-gas world. They don’t produce any of the fuels at all. Yet the islands are deep wells of profit for European oil giant Royal Dutch Shell Plc. In 2018 and 2019, Shell earned more …
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