International

Washington, USA -- The secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, said on Friday that “the detention of the mayor of Caracas, Antonio Ledezma, has caused alarm due to the way in which it took place…

Miami, USA -- Carnival Corporation, the world's largest travel and leisure company, will begin welcoming guests at its newly developed Amber Cove port in the Dominican Republic beginning October 2015. Six of Carnival Corporation's nine…

The Hague, Netherlands -- Information about the Dutch Secret Service (AIVD) and the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is probably in the hands of the wrong people, after the gambling mafia in Curacao managed to pay off the Curacao Secret…

Paris, France (RSF) -- The western hemisphere’s deadliest country, Mexico sinks deeper into violence by the day. Journalists are threatened, kidnapped and murdered with alarming impunity in the eastern state of Veracruz. News media are the…

New York, USA -- JetBlue Airways, the largest airline to the Caribbean, has announced an agreement with its partner, ABC Charters, to add a new charter flight to Cuba beginning this summer. The weekly flight, which begins on June 5, will…

Miami, USA -- A US citizen charged in connection with the operation of a series of fraudulent business opportunities has been extradited from Costa Rica to the United States, the Justice Department announced. John White was charged in a…

(CNN) -- Saudi Arabia and at least two other nations said Friday they were temporarily closing their embassies inYemen, joining the United States and some other countries in shutting their diplomatic outposts in the Arabian Peninsula nation…

(CNN) -- The U.S. Army has agreed to provide hormone therapy for Chelsea Manning, the soldier serving a 35-year prison sentence for leaking a huge trove of classified documents. The prisoner formerly known as Bradley Manning, and once held…

Mississauga (CMC) -- Canadian police are hunting for the trafficker of five kilograms of cocaine imported on a flight that came from St Maarten on Sunday. The seizure was made by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), as officers…

Taipei, Taiwan (AFP) -- Six prisoners at a southern Taiwan jail committed suicide on Thursday, ending a standoff after they took several staff hostage to complain about unfair trials and demand their freedom, officials said. The prisoners…

Washington, USA -- The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists released a report this week revealing billions of dollars held in nearly 60,000 internal Swiss bank documents from 2006 to 2007 leaked by whistleblower Hervé…

Hamilton, Bermuda -- Bermuda's well-documented financial services regulation, international partnership treaties, and lack of bank secrecy legislation ought to be recognised by the UK Labour Party, the Bermuda Business Development Agency…

London, England -- The chairman of the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange, local attorney at law Anthony Travers, has accused UK Labour Party leader Ed Miliband of being hopelessly out of touch in relation to international tax avoidance.…

(CNN) -- A 46-year-old man has been charged with murder in the shooting deaths of three students in an apartment near the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus. Police said "an ongoing neighbor dispute over parking" may have…

New York (AP) -- NBC announced Tuesday that it is suspending Brian Williams as "Nightly News" anchor and managing editor for six months without pay for misleading the public about his experiences covering the Iraq War. The network's…