Hundreds of weary, hopeful Bahamas evacuees arrive in Florida by ship

A passenger is greeted after disembarking the Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line ship, Grand Celebration RIVIERA BEACH (Florida, US), Sept 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Hundreds of weary Bahamians, some carrying small bags of belongings and children on their hips, disembarked a cruise ship in south Florida on Saturday after fleeing the catastrophic…

Cuba, EU to hold second Joint Council meeting in Havana

HAVANA, Sept 8 (NNN-Xinhua) — The European Union (EU)’s top diplomat Federica Mogherini has begun an official visit to Cuba to attend the second EU-Cuba Joint Council meeting, Cuba’s Foreign Ministry said. The meeting will kick off on Monday in Cuba’s capital city Havana. The Cuban delegation would be led…

Russians go to polls after summer of protests

MOSCOW, Sept 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Russians vote Sunday in local electionsafter weeks of opposition protests that led to the biggest police crackdownon dissent in nearly a decade. Elections take place after Moscow and Kiev carried out a long-awaited swapof 70 prisoners on Saturday, a deal hailed as a first step…

Peru: Prosecutor’s Office carried out confiscations worth US$121 million

LIMA, Sept 8 (NNN-ANDINA) — Peru’s Lava Jato Case Prosecutor’s Office has seized S/400 million (about US$121 million) from businesses and people under investigation for alleged corruption offenses involving Brazilian construction companies and Peruvian citizens. Prosecutor Jorge Ramirez indicated this measure was used against houses, apartments, vehicles, and shares in…

Bahamas seeks aid for its tourism after battering by Hurricane Dorian

SAN JUAN, Sept 8 (NNN-EFE) — The Bahamas government has asked the world’s tourism industry not to cross the archipelago off its list of vacation destinations, but to help it avoid an economic crisis following the destruction inflicted by Hurricane Dorian, which left 43 known fatalities and the likelihood of…

Brazilian minister prepared to sell all “dysfunctional” state owned companies

FORTALEZA (Brasil), Sept 8 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Brazil’s Economy Minister Paulo Guedes said he will propose selling all the country’s state-owned companies because they are “dysfunctional” and should be privatized to improve the government’s finances. In a wide-ranging address at a conference in the northeastern city of Fortaleza broadcast live on…

Brazil’s agribusiness joins the campaign to stop rainforest fires in the Amazon

BRASILIA, Sept 8 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — The Brazilian Amazon is facing its worst spate of forest fires since 2010, with news of the destruction of the world’s largest rainforest last month prompting global outcry and worries that it could hurt demand for the country’s exports. Reacting to the situation Brazil’s leading…

US restricts sending of remittances to Cuba, bans donations

WASHINGTON, Sept 8 (NNN-TELESUR) — The United States Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control amended the Cuban Assets Control Regulations Friday to cap the amount of money family members can send to Cuba, ban donations and money transfers to or from the island through U.S. banks. The new economic…

Brazil: Students protest over education and the Amazon

BRASILIA, Sept 8 (NNN-Prensa Latina) — With painted-faces and dressed in black, Brazilian students took to the streets on Saturday in all regions of the country to protest against cuts in education funds and in defense of the Amazon. The National Union of Students (UNE) called on its members to…

France sends aid to Bolivia to fight Amazon fires

PARIS, Sept 8 (NNN-Prensa Latina) — The French government announced on Saturday it has sent 38-strong firefighting brigade to Bolivia and will send three drones to help put out wildfires in the Amazon. A joint communique from the Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of the Interior adds that the firefighters…