2025 • Oct 27
Jamaicans take shelter as Hurricane Melissa bears down as category 5 storm
Landfall is not expected until Tuesday but high winds have already felled trees and caused power cuts on the island
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2025 • Oct 27
Javier Milei hails ‘tipping point’ as his far-right party wins Argentina’s midterm elections
The result falls short of giving Milei a congressional majority but has been widely described as surprising by Argentinian analystsThe party of Argentina’s far-right president, Javier Milei,...
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2025 • Oct 27
Hurricane Melissa strengthens to category 4 as evacuations ordered in Jamaica’s capital
Storm could intensify further, threatening to cause catastrophic flooding in northern CaribbeanHurricane Melissa strengthened into a powerful category 4 hurricane on Sunday, threatening days...
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2025 • Oct 27
Weather tracker: Jamaica braces for its most powerful hurricane as Melissa nears category 5
Record-breaking hurricane expected to make landfall on Tuesday with 160mph winds, while New Zealand reels from storm damageThe Caribbean is
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2025 • Oct 27
Republican senator calls Trump’s military airstrikes ‘extrajudicial killings’
Rand Paul’s comments come days after president claimed US lawmakers wouldn’t take issue with Venezuelan strikes
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2025 • Oct 25
Argentina goes to polls amid economic crisis and Trump ‘interference’
Poor showing in Sunday’s election would deal hammer blow to country’s radical libertarian president, Javier MileiArgentina’s radical libertarian leader, Javier Milei, is facing a pivotal mom...
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2025 • Oct 24
US and Canada spar over ad of Reagan denouncing tariffs that led to derailed trade talks
Ontario premier says he plans to run ad featuring speech that sparked Trump’s ire again during World Series but campaign will end MondayAfter the US suspended all trade negotiations with
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2025 • Oct 24
Pentagon deploys top aircraft carrier as Trump militarisation of Caribbean ratchets up
Use of USS Gerald Ford along with fighter jets comes as president plots strikes against alleged cartels on landThe Pentagon said on Friday that it was deploying the United States’s most adva...
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2025 • Oct 24
Trump says all Canada trade talks ‘terminated’ over ad criticising tariffs
US president accuses Canada of ‘egregious behaviour’ after release of ad featuring Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about tariffs Donald Trump has said he is ending “all trade negotiations”...
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2025 • Oct 23
US military kills five people in strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats in Pacific
Latest strikes were off coast of Colombia, while seven previous attacks in Caribbean killed at least 32The US military has for the first time attacked and destroyed two boats on the Pacific ...
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2025 • Oct 23
Revealed: police across US spread false rumors about Venezuelan gang threats
Claim that Tren de Aragua planned to attack officers was widely shared – only for FBI to later acknowledge it was mistaken, internal files showAn unverified rumor that Venezuelan gang member...
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2025 • Oct 23
Colombia urges US to halt strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats: ‘It is murder’
Plea comes after Pete Hegseth announced two new strikes that left at least five people deadColombia has condemned US airstrikes on ve...
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