With the United Kingdom now formally no longer a member of the European Union, the two top UK officials with portfolio responsibility for the Overseas Territories have set out to reassure and allay concerns about what this means for UK’s far-flung global outposts.
The Grenfell Tower fire disaster in 2017 killed 72 mostly black and Muslim people in the UK yet none of the companies involved in the refurbishment of the block of apartments has accepted responsibility.
Facing economic collapse and painful sanctions, the socialist government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has proposed giving majority shares and control of its oil industry to big international corporations, a move that would forsake decades of state monopoly.
Cuba was recently found to be the most sustainably developed country in the world, according to the Sustainable Development Index.
The number of migrants returned to Honduras by various means from Mexico and Guatemala this year already exceeds 5,000, the National Institute of Migration reported. Countries where the Honduran migrants are passing through are no longer tolerating the people caravans.
The Philippines has lowered the alert level at Taal Volcano, two weeks after it began spewing ash, steam and rocks, in a move that could allow many of the 376,000 villagers displaced by its activity to return home.
Chinese people in Canada are experiencing racism over fears that they are carrying the deadly coronavirus.
Britain outside the European Union; sunny uplands or a dark dungeon of despair?
It’s not just the basketball world that is mourning the death of NBA legend Kobe Bryant, who was tragically killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday in California – literally billions of people with a smattering of sporting knowledge knew who he was too.
Cuba is bracing for further economically stifling measures by the Trump administration which is threatening “maximum pressure” against Havana.