Category: World
Guyana citizens to receive £370 each in payouts from ‘mind-boggling’ oil wealth
Hundreds of thousands of Guyana citizens living at home and abroad will receive a payout of around £370 each after the country announced it was [more…]
Cuba braces for Hurricane Rafael amid fallout from blackout and storm last month
Cuba is bracing for Hurricane Rafael, which is expected to make landfall on Wednesday and compound the misery wrought by a recent blackout and Hurricane [more…]
US cancels $1.1bn of Somalia’s debt in ‘historic’ financial agreement
Somalia has announced that more than $1.1bn (£860m) of outstanding loans will be cancelled by the US, a sum representing about a quarter of the [more…]
‘Time for patriots’: global far-right figures celebrate Trump’s win
Key members of the global far right have celebrated Donald Trump’s US election win, with tributes to the former president rolling in from Rio de [more…]
Lightning strike kills football player during match in Peru
Lightning has killed a 34-year-old player and injured five others during a football match in Peru. Sunday’s game between Juventud Bellavista and Familia Chocca in [more…]
Tropical Storm Rafael gains intensity in Caribbean as it nears Cuba
Tropical Storm Rafael has grown more powerful in the Caribbean Sea and is poised to reach hurricane strength on Wednesday, carrying the risk of damaging [more…]
Netflix adapts Pedro Páramo, the great Mexican novel that inspired Márquez
“I came to Comala because I was told that my father lived here, a certain Pedro Páramo.” Many Mexicans know the first sentence of Juan [more…]
World watches with bated breath as US votes for Harris or Trump
From Brazil to Ireland and Germany to the Caribbean, this year’s knife-edge – and more than usually momentous – US presidential vote will be watched [more…]
Tropical Storm Rafael triggers hurricane warning for Cayman Islands
Forecasters posted a hurricane warning in the Caribbean on Monday afternoon after a late-season disturbance south of Cuba strengthened into Tropical Storm Rafael and set [more…]
Incendiary device plot targeting UK may have been dry run for US and Canada
An incendiary device hidden in a DHL package that caught fire in Germany in July was due to be sent by air to the UK [more…]