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Sir Ronald Sanders – A world less safe: The Caribbean is not immune
By Sir Ronald Sanders Events affecting Iran, prompted by the May 8 decision of US President Donald Trump to withdraw America from a 2015 nuclear deal, may appear irrelevant to Caribbean countries. They are not. One of the first effects…
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The View From Europe: the future cost of Trump’s ‘America First’ policy
BY: DAVID JESSOP From The Barbados Advocate At first sight, last week’s decision by the US President to abrogate the hard-won 2015 UN Security Council deal on nuclear weapons with Iran may seem to have little bearing on the Caribbean….
Fears of uprising impact celebration of Iran’s Fire Festival
From WN For the Iranian regime, large gatherings of the Iranian people are to be feared. In the past few years, protests have increased and the election in 2009 resulted in what can only be described as an uprising. Since…
Burning tanker off Chinese coast ‘in danger of exploding’
From BBC There are fears of an environmental disaster in the East China Sea as a tanker continues to leak oil two days after colliding with a cargo ship. Chinese officials have told state media the Sanchi is in danger…
Yemen rebel ballistic missile ‘intercepted over Riyadh’
From BBC The Saudi-led coalition battling Yemen’s Houthi rebels says it has intercepted a ballistic missile near Riyadh, Saudi state media report. Witnesses in the Saudi capital posted pictures on social media showing a cloud of smoke in the air,…
Countries buying most gold jewelry
These 10 countries buy the most gold jewelry U.S. Global Investors From Business Insider For millennia, cultures across the globe have coveted gold jewelry for its brilliant yellow hue and imperviousness to rust and corrosion of any kind. That same…
Iran building weapons factories in Syria, Lebanon, Israeli media reports
From Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Israeli media are reporting that Iran is building a factory in northwest Syria to manufacture long-range rockets. The reports feature satellite images showing a site under construction in northwest Syria near the Mediterranean coastal town…
McCain: Warmbier ‘Murdered by the Kim Jong Un Regime’
By Cathy Burke From Newsmax Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., declared the Monday death of former North Korean prisoner Otto Warmbier – just days after the comatose Ohio student was flown home – a murder by the Kim Jong Un regime….
The FBI is helping Qatar get to the bottom of a ‘hack’ into state media
By David Harding, AFP From Business Insider Doha (AFP) – The FBI is helping Qatar investigate the source of an alleged “hack” of state media which sparked diplomatic tensions in the Gulf, a source with knowledge of the probe said…
Identifying the ‘dark money’ that floods Dominica’s elections
By Joshua Francis From Caribbean News Now There is a growing sense and evidence that lies, darkness and trickery in public life have taken a strong hold in our society and for a long time kept most of us from…
