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ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC) – Antigua and Barbuda is hosting a week-long regional conference aimed at strengthening nuclear material  inventory reporting...
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Gov’t fast-tracking the repairs of police stations
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Gov’t fast-tracking the repairs of police stations
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ST JAMES, Jamaica — State Minister in the Ministry of National Security and Peace, Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn, says the Government is accelerating the rest...
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48-hour curfew imposed in Kingston Eastern
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48-hour curfew imposed in Kingston Eastern
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — A 48-hour curfew has been imposed in the Kingston Eastern policing division. The curfew will begin at 6:00 pm, on Tuesday,  and wi...
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Holness says US$6.7b to support Jamaica’s recovery from Melissa is ‘unprecedented’
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness has described as "unprecedented", the US$6.7 billion of international financial support mobilised...
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Kiwanis Club of Global Alliance hosts health and dental fair in Trench Town
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Kiwanis Club of Global Alliance carried out its first major community initiative recently, hosting a health and dental fair at...
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ST CATHERINE, Jamaica — More than two dozen Haitians were reportedly detained by the police on Monday in Edgewater, Portmore, St Catherine. While the ...
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Theft of wires slows electricity restoration in St Ann
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Theft of wires slows electricity restoration in St Ann
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Jamaica Public Service (JPS) is facing a significant set back in their efforts to restore electricity to customers in St Ann d...
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Forex: $161.15 to one US dollar
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — The United States (US) dollar on Monday, December 2, ended trading at $161.15, down by 10 cents, according to the Bank of Jamaica’...
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PARIS, France (AFP) — French authorities Tuesday arrested four more people in the probe into last month's spectacular daylight theft of imperial jewel...
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Mbappe says France football team ‘to remember’ Paris terror victims
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PARIS, France (AFP) — France captain Kylian Mbappe said the national football team wished to remember all the victims of the 2015 Paris terror attacks...
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Pigs’ heads left outside mosques in Paris region
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PARIS, France (AFP)-At least nine pigs' heads were found outside several mosques in the Paris region on Tuesday, the city's police chief said -- an in...
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PARIS, France (AFP) -- Two people died, hundreds were arrested and cars set ablaze in France overnight as football fans celebrated Paris Saint-Germain...
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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump's administration on Monday announced the United States' intention to withdraw from the Paris ...
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‘Dazzling’ Notre Dame re-opens five years after fire
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PARIS, France (AFP)— France on Saturday prepared to throw open the doors of the capital's Notre Dame cathedral after a half-decade closure, in a cerem...
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PARIS, France (AFP) – Paris unveiled new regulations Thursday tightening restrictions on holiday apartment rentals, hoping to ease a housing shortage ...
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Dutch, French authorities raid Netflix offices in tax probe
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PARIS, France (AFP)— French and Dutch authorities raided streaming giant Netflix's offices in Paris and Amsterdam on Tuesday as part of a tax fraud in...
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Paris to honour murdered Ugandan Olympian Cheptegei
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PARIS, France (AFP) — The city of Paris will honour slain Ugandan Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei by naming a sports venue after her, the French capi...
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Torch begins its journey at English home of Paralympic Games
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STOKE MANDEVILLE, United Kingdom (AFP)— Four days before the Paris Paralympic Games begin, the Paralympic flame was on Saturday lit next to the Englis...
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France to donate 100,000 mpox vaccines as it readies centres at home
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PARIS, France (AFP)— France will donate 100,000 mpox vaccine doses to countries suffering from the emergency, as it readies vaccination centres at hom...
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French authorities release US rapper Travis Scott
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PARIS, France (AFP) — French police on Saturday released United States (US) star rapper Travis Scott after 36 hours in custody in Paris over suspected...
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Olympic men’s triathlon postponed as Seine fails water tests again
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PARIS, France (AFP) — The Paris Olympics men's triathlon was postponed just hours before it was due to get under way on Tuesday after water quality te...
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Suspense over Olympics triathlon as Seine fails water tests again
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PARIS, France (AFP) — Olympic organisers cancelled a second day of triathlon training in the River Seine on Monday due to water pollution, increasing ...
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Strike threat lingers over Olympics opening ceremony
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PARIS, France (AFP) — Negotiations to end a strike threat from several hundred dancers involved in the Paris Olympics opening ceremony failed to reach...
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Air pollution warning for Paris Olympic village
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PARIS, France (AFP) — A French charity warned Tuesday about air pollution problems at the athletes' village for the Paris Olympics which is set to wel...
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Paris mayor says French elections could ‘spoil’ Olympics
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PARIS, France (AFP) — Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo on Wednesday said that President Emmanuel Macron had risked "spoiling" the Olympics party in the French...
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Paris prepares epic Olympics dance show
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PARIS, France (AFP) — Music pounds through an empty hangar on the outskirts of Paris as dancers perform a few snatches of a top-secret routine in fron...
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Jamaica targets Olympic qualifying mark for 4x400m men’s relay at New Life Invitational
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June 12, 2024
KINGSTON, Jamaica — President of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA), Garth Gayle, said his association will be sending a very str...
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Seine still failing water tests two months from Paris Olympics
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PARIS, France (AFP)— Water tests in the Seine in Paris show the river is still too dirty to swim in, two months before the start of the Paris Olympics...
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