Honduras’ President Juan Orlando Hernandez and his wife Ana Garcia attend the XVII Tuxtla Summit in San Pedro Sula, Honduras August 22, 2019. Presidency Honduras/Handout via REUTERS SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (Reuters) – Regional leaders on Friday called for “shock” investment in infrastructure in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador to reduce the number of migrants
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CELAYA, Mexico (Reuters) – Twelve hours after he scrambled atop a boxcar on a freight train that hurtled through Mexico towards the U.S. border, Roni Osorio could no longer fight sleep. The train lurched, and with nothing to grip onto, he rolled, fell, and was sucked under its churning wheels. Nearly a year later, Osorio,
YANGON (Reuters) – This month marks the second anniversary of the fleeing of more than 730,000 Rohingya from Myanmar’s northwest Rakhine State to Bangladesh after a military-led crackdown in response to an attack by Muslim militants on Myanmar police posts. FILE PHOTO: Rohingya refugees, who crossed the border from Myanmar two days before, walk after
Spain’s acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez visits Gran Canaria in Canary Islands that has been affected by Spain’s worst wildfire in six years, in Valleseco, Spain, August 22, 2019. REUTERS/Borja Suarez VALLESECO, Gran Canaria, Spain (Reuters) – A wildfire in the popular tourist island of Gran Canaria has been stabilised but continues to burn, Spain’s
SEOUL (Reuters) – A North Korean spokesman said on Thursday the United States’ recent mid-range cruise missile test and plans to deploy F-35 jets and offensive military equipment around the Korean peninsula were “dangerous” moves that would “trigger a new cold war” in the region. FILE PHOTO: A conventionally configured ground-launched cruise missile is launched
LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s demand that the European Union reopen the Brexit divorce deal was rebuffed on Tuesday by the bloc, which said Britain had failed to propose any realistic alternative to an agreed insurance policy for the Irish border. FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivers a speech outside Downing
Are you old enough to have played your music on vinyl records? For many readers, the answer is “no” … if not “hunnnh?” If you were born after 1982, you came into a world where music on vinyl had mostly disappeared. Compact discs (CD’s) for music storage were becoming an established norm, no longer a new
GIBRALTAR (Reuters) – The Iranian tanker caught in a stand-off between Tehran and the West left Gibraltar on Sunday night, shipping data showed, hours after the British territory rejected a U.S. request to detain the vessel further. The Iranian flag flies at Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya 1, before being named as Grace 1, as
An Iranian flag flies at Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya 1, before being named as Grace 1, as it sits anchored after the Supreme Court of the British territory lifted its detention order, in the Strait of Gibraltar, Spain, August 18, 2019. REUTERS/Jon Nazca GIBRALTAR (Reuters) – An Iranian tanker caught in a stand-off between
FILE PHOTO: An anti-Brexit protester is seen outside the Cabinet Office in London, Britain July 29, 2019. REUTERS/Toby Melville LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will face shortages of fuel, food and medicine if it leaves the European Union without a transition deal, jamming ports and requiring a hard border in Ireland, official government documents leaked to
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. special envoy for North Korea will travel to Japan and South Korea next week to coordinate efforts to secure the denuclearization of North Korea, the State Department said on Friday. FILE PHOTO: .S. Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun sits during a meeting with South Korea’s Special Representative for
LONDON (Reuters) – The Labour Party has urged rebel MPs in the ruling Conservatives to help block a no-deal Brexit by bringing down Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s administration and allowing its leader Jeremy Corbyn to form a caretaker government. FILE PHOTO: Britain’s opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn gestures as he speaks during a rally
Scott Page, enterprising visionary architect of Think EXP: has essentially taken T-shirt concert merchandise to the next level with the help of Rich Stein and Matthew Olson from Tap2Interact. In keeping within the very quintessence of Think:EXP which “strives to bridge the gap between the human spirit and technological innovation with one of a kind
FILE PHOTO: Former London Mayor Boris Johnson speaks at the launch of the Vote Leave bus campaign, in favour of Britain leaving the European Union, in Truro, Britain May 11, 2016. REUTERS/Darren Staples/File Photo LONDON (Reuters) – A campaigner who wanted to prosecute British Prime Minister Boris Johnson for allegedly lying about the benefits of
FUNAFUTI, Tuvalu (Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison will on Wednesday arrive in Tuvalu, a tiny Pacific Island, to start wooing a region that Canberra fears is edging closer to China. FILE PHOTO: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks during a joint press conference at the Istana Presidential Palace in Singapore, 07 June 2019.
Search the Internet for the top 10 “inventions” of all time and you’ll come up with fire, the wheel, the printing press, the Internet, etc. Change the search for “innovations” and some of the same items appear again: fire and the printing press, for example. Who among us believes we can come up with new