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Police Find Lost $3.5 Million Painting in Belgian Warehouse | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
BRUSSELS, Belgium - Authorities recovered a missing $3.5 million painting by renowned Spanish master painter Joaquin Sorolla during one of the largest anti-corruption cases in the country's history. The Sorolla painting, 'Antes de la corrida' ('Before the Bullfight'), was found in a Belgian
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Belizean Kriols
By the 1500s, black slaves had been distributed through much of the Caribbean. Slavery, however, began much later in Central America. By 1724 the British were transporting slaves from Jamaica to Belize to cut logwood, particularly Mahogany. These slaves became known as
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Peru overtakes Italy in total cases of coronavirus
LIMA,  (Reuters) – Peru topped 240,000 total cases of coronavirus yesterday, surpassing hard-hit Italy, government data showed, even as the pace of infections has begun to moderate in the South American
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Biden Raised Three Times Trump's Fundraising Haul in the First Two Weeks of October | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
If money were votes, the election would be long over. The Biden campaign continued its financial domination over Trump's during the first two weeks of October. Biden pulled in another $130 million dollars-triple Trump's $43.6 million. The Democratic standard-bearer spent 2.3 times as much as the
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IMF forecasts deeper Latin America recession in 2020
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) — The International Monetary Fund is forecasting a nearly double-digit recession for Latin America and the Caribbean in 2020 — a contraction of 9.4 per cent — as the region is dragged down by its two largest economies which continue to suffer from the novel
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VIDEO: Highway to Hell: Fire Truck Shown Surrounded by Blaze | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
NAPA and SONOMA COUNTIES, Calif. - One of California's fast-growing wildfires is producing harrowing scenes right out of a disaster movie. Footage showing firefighters driving along a mountain road at night as the devastating Glass Fire burns woodland on both sideswas filmed earlier this week in St
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UN Resident Coordinator notes continuing delay in concluding elections - Stabroek News
Adverting to reports that Latin America and the Caribbean face their worst recession in a century, the UN Resident Coordinator here, Mikiko Tanaka has pointed out that the elections process is still to be concluded
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Madam C. J. Walker was born on December 23, 1867 in Delta, Louisiana, the daughter of Owen and Minerva Breedlove. Her parents were former slaves working as sharecroppers and both died when Sarah was a child. As a result, Sarah was forced to move from one household to another. At age seven, she
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Nigeria: Buhari Nominates Okonjo-Iweala As Nigeria's Candidate for World Trade Organisation's DG Election
Nigeria has nominated a former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, as its candidate for the Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) election coming up next
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The African diaspora in the Americas is used to refer to people born in the Americas with predominantly African ancestry. Most are descendants of people enslaved and transferred from Africa to the Americas by Europeans, to work in their colonies, mostly in mines and plantations as slaves, between
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New IDB President optimistic on Guyana’s growth prospects - Stabroek News
In his belief that Guyana can be a model developed economy in Latin America and the Caribbean in the next five to ten years, newly-elected Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) President, Mauricio Claver-Carone says that he will do all possible during his tenure to facilitate achieving those goals
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Africa: Ecobank Named Most Innovative Bank in Africa
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Motorsports in America: Do Black Lives Matter? | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
Washington, DC — This past Fourth of July, the motorsports world was exploding with action in Austria with Formula One, and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway made history by hosting INDYCAR and NASCAR, on the same race weekend. In the wake of George Floyd’s death, and the civil unrest that
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Brazil coronavirus deaths surge
Brazil saw its highest number of coronavirus deaths yet Tuesday as, more than four months after Covid-19 first emerged in China, the force of the pandemic was beginning to hit hard in Latin
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Exotic Fan Mussels Saved From Extinction | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
MALLORCA AND MENORCA, Spain-Eight live specimens of the exotic fan mussel (Pinna nobilis) have been located near the Spanish islands of Mallorca and Menorca after it was believed they had been decimated by a parasite. The transfer of the mollusks by divers.(CAIB/Newsflash) Technical staff from the
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Caribbean countries call for fair access to non-market finance
SANTIAGO, Chile (CMC) - Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has told the Sixth Caribbean Development Roundtable of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) that middle-income countries need fair and predictable access to non-market finance based on their vulnerability.
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Massive World War II Tallboy Bomb Explodes Accidentally | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
SZEZCIN, Poland-A massive World War II bomb exploded underwater as the Polish Navy attempted to defuse it. Military experts had warned in advance that it was a dangerous job to detonate the nearly 12,000-pound Tallboy bomb, found in the Piast Canal waterway leading to the port of Szczecin in
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Cuba denounces 'media blockade' on success in fighting COVID-19
HAVANA, Cuba, Sep. 6, CMC – The government of Cuba has denounced what it calls a “media blockade” at the international level on the country’s success in confronting the COVID-19 pandemic. In a message on Twitter,...
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Taylor, Teddy B. (1953- )
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LEGISLATIVE UPDATE: By Kimberly Daniels State Representative House District 14 | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
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Jamaican appointed new IFC regional manager for the Caribbean | New York Carib News
WASHINGTON, United States (CMC) — The International Finance Corporation (IFC) Tuesday announced that Jamaican, Judith Green, has been appointed the regional manager for the Caribbean, overseeing operations in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and the English-speaking
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Indian Conservationist Lauded for Giving Lease of Life to Vultures | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
Indian conservationist Ram Jakati has been honored by Britain's largest nature conservation charity, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) for his work in saving endangered Indian vultures. He was recently given the Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Nature Conservation by the
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