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  • Venezuela Wreckage of plane that disappeared in 2008 located off Caribbean archipelago

    CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan authorities say the undersea wreckage of a small plane that disappeared five years ago with 14 people aboard has been found. Attorney General Luisa Ortega Diaz is announcing via Twitter the discovery of the aircraft with the ID code YV2081. The plane went missing Jan. 4, 2008. Aboard were five Venezuelans including the pilot and copilot, eight Italians and one ...

  • Video Canadian peacekeepers heading to Haiti

    Defence Minister Peter MacKay says 34 soldiers are going to Haiti as part of a UN peacekeeping operation. The troops are scheduled to arrive this week to begin a six-month tour under Brazilian ...

  • U.S. and Cuba Agree to Resume Migration Talks

    HAVANA -- The United States and Cuba have agreed to resume bilateral talks on migration issues next month, a State Department official said Wednesday, the latest evidence of a thaw in chilly relations between the Cold War ...

  • World Bank grants Haiti $20 million to clean up public records government transparency

    PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The World Bank has given $20 million to Haiti for cleaning up its public resources and making them more transparent. The grant will help Haiti improve public financial management, procurement practices and performance of the national electrical company. It will also create a tracking system to monitor budgets and a single treasury account to manage funds. The grant is ...

  • Puerto Rico approves bill targeting bullying at school

    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Legislators in Puerto Rico have approved a bill ordering education officials to create a protocol to address bullying at both public and private schools. The bill approved Wednesday comes amid several high-profile bullying incidents, including one of a videotaped fight of two young girls who were arrested in March after one of them posted the video on Facebook. The bill ...

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Observe and Report

Observe and Report

Jody Hills pitch-black mall-cop comedy Observe and Report is a deeply angry movie, and any significance it has will likely reside in how future historians view it as a silver-screen expression of todays angry times. It is not surprising, then, that Hill has vocally not ... ...

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  • Hugh Adami Vacationer’s minor traffic accident in Cuba costly ordeal

    OTTAWA -- Elie Raffoul found out the hard way why driving in Cuba isn't such a good idea.The Ottawa man was in an accident last March 23, involving a motorcyclist who suffered relatively minor injuries, and was forced by Cuban authorities to remain in the country for almost two weeks. He was planning to return to Ottawa on March 24.Raffoul, who was on his fifth vacation in Cuba when the ...

  • Migration talks between US and Cuba set to resume

    The United States and Cuba have agreed to resume bilateral talks on migration issues next month, a State Department official said Wednesday, the latest evidence of a thaw in chilly relations between the Cold War enemies. Havana and Washington just wrapped up a round of separate negotiations aimed at restarting direct mail service, which has been suspended since 1963. Both sets of talks have ...

  • Mango Festival in Trinidad and Tobago pays homage to the kings of tropical fruit

    The dual-island Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago is known for its superb cuisine and spectacular street food, but on July 4 and 7, the nation of foodies will pay homage to the king of tropical fruit. Sweet, juicy and versatile, delicious mangoes of every size and type will be the focus of Trinidad and Tobago's fourth annual Mango Festival which will be held on July 7. Featuring a ...

  • U.S. Cuba to restart migration talks

    - The United States and Cuba have agreed to resume regular migration talks in a possible sign of thawing relations after more than three years of tensions over Cuba's jailing of a U.S. government contract worker. The announcement of the talks Wednesday came as Cuban and U.S. officials met in Washington for discussions exploring the restoration of direct mail service between the two ...

  • Haiti ban fallout reaches more sectors

    They haven't cared for like 200 years and countingSymbolically, when the earthquake of 2010 took out the National Palace wild cheers went up on the part of the underclasses in the still smoldering ashes of that terrible natural disaster. A very telling symbol or statement of the lack of State and Nation balancing.The "saving face" might be part of the problem, but in essence ...

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