Read the latest news from regional and global sources, presenting different voices and perspectives.
Sickened Brits sue 'nightmare' resort with 'raw food and wild animals around buffet'
Daily Record & Sunday Mail
·
June 18, 2025
A group of 25 fuming Brits have sued a nightmare holiday resort after an alleged holiday from hell. The guests allegedly suffered gastric illnesses while staying at the Riu Karamboa, in Boa Vista and claim there were disturbing scenes around the...
How A 48-Country Travel Ban Could Suppress U.S. Tourism In A World Cup Year
Forbes
·
Topline As the Trump administration considers significantly expanding the travel ban to more than four dozen countries, World Cup host cities in the United States that were banking on filling half their stadiums and hotels with foreign visitors...
US mulls travel ban, Gonzales warns region about selling passports
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
·
June 16, 2025
News Sean Douglas 4 Hrs Ago US President Donald Trump, front, at a business meeting and roundtable at Qasr Al Watan, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates on May 16. At right is Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Khaled Bin Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan....
New Bedford Whaling Museum plans $31.5M expansion as attendance grows
South Coast Business Bulletin - Massachusetts
·
The New Bedford Whaling Museum held an "Open Doors" celebration on June 12. The museum is celebrating the beginning of its $31.5 million Welcome and Exhibition Center. The museum has seen its highest number of first-quarter visits in history, with...
US-led exercise in West Africa aims to help thwart growing sophistication of maritime crime
Stars and Stripes - Washington D.C
·
Vice Adm. Jeffrey Anderson, commander of U.S. 6th Fleet, speaks with reporters in Praia, Cabo Verde, after the opening ceremony for Obangame Express. The 14-day exercise in West Africa kicked off on May 5, 2025, and includes 28 countries. (Alison...
Rare Grasshopper Believed Extinct Rediscovered After Four Decades
Bioengineer.org
·
May 5, 2025
In a remarkable turn of events that has sent ripples through the entomological community worldwide, the Monte Gordo Grasshopper, scientifically known as Eyprepocprifas insularis, has been rediscovered on the island of São Nicolau in Cape Verde....
The world’s oceans are dying. Can a UN summit in Nice turn the tide?
UN News
·
June 5, 2025
From June 9 to 13, the coastal city of Nice will host the Third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3), a high-level summit co-chaired by France and Costa Rica. Its mission: to confront a deepening ocean emergency that scientists warn is nearing...
Brits ditch Spain and Portugal for scorching countries with cheaper breaks
The Mirror
·
June 18, 2025
Milo Boyd Digital Travel Reporter and Neil Lancefield PA Transport Correspondent 02:00, 18 Jun 2025 A surge in UK holidaymakers are swapping traditional European destinations for North Africa, according to travel firms. Experts suggest the...
Grasshopper species presumed extinct for 43 years was recently rediscovered
Earth.com
·
In 1980, a single male grasshopper was collected on São Nicolau, Cape Verde. After that, silence. For decades, the Monte Gordo grasshopper (Eyprepocprifas insularis) was lost to science. Declared extinct in 1996, the grasshopper returned in 2023 –...
West Africa’s Catholic Priests End Congress with Pledge to Foster Intercultural Dialogue to Demolish “walls of hatred”
ACI Africa
·
June 16, 2025
RUPWA members also commit to “play a prophetic role in awakening consciences” to ensure that social concerns are given due consideration in the formulation of development policies and economic strategies across their respective nations. They...
Keyamo Appointed Chairman of West Africa Banjul Accord Group
This Day
·
May 23, 2025
•Aviation minister urges African countries to prioritise infrastructure, investment friendly environment Chinedu Eze in Lagos and Kasim Sumaina in Abuja Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development of Nigeria, Festus Keyamo, has been appointed...
The head of the Army: ‘We are struggling with the problem of fragmentation in the land systems industry’
Atalayar
·
June 16, 2025
The Chief of the Army Staff (JEME) since October 2021, General Amador Enseñat, 64, recently offered an overview of the general situation facing the land component of the Spanish Armed Forces and, in relation to rearming with new military...
Next Atlantic African states process ministerial meeting to be held in September in New York
Hespress
·
May 9, 2025
The next ministerial meeting of the Atlantic African States Process (AASP) will take place in September in New York, according to the final declaration adopted at the conclusion of the fifth AASP meeting, held on Thursday in Praia, the capital of...
Reinvigorating intra-African trade amid global tensions
The Guardian (Nigeria)
·
June 11, 2025
The golden triad of domestic, regional, and international trade catalyzes markets and, by extension, economic growth and productivity – in an ideal state. The significant counterpoint however, is that geoeconomics, geopolitics, and overriding...
Protecting Tenerife's Marine Marvels
Living on Earth
·
Port construction can have major environmental impacts on the ocean such as damaging the seabed and creating coastal runoff. (Photo: Megha Engineering and Infrastructures Ltd, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain) One of the recipients of this year’s...
PALOPs should take advantage of the advantages and think regionally, argues Sérgio Pimenta
Ver Angola
·
In an interview with Lusa on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the independence of the former Portuguese colonies in Africa, which is being celebrated this year, Sérgio Pimenta said that the Portuguese-speaking African countries (PALOP)...
The best summer holiday deals to book now, from all-inclusive to self-catering
The Independent
·
May 22, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
All aboard for the loveliest old-school sailing holidays
The Times
·
There’s something undeniably romantic about the sound of the wind in the sails, gently creaking masts and the sloshing of waves against the hull. Whether you’re after all-out formal luxury, the glamour of a yacht on the French Riviera or a...
Bridgewater State University and Portugal’s Iscte establish partnership
Fall River Herald News - Massachusetts
·
Bridgewater State University (BSU) and Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon (Iscte) have partnered to advance cybersecurity and AI initiatives. The partnership, supported by a grant, aims to develop joint programs and degrees in areas of mutual...
Don’t think small, think at scale
Island Times
·
June 10, 2025
NICE (TPL NEWS)—As the epicentre of global Ocean messaging celebrates World Ocean Day in Monaco and heads to Nice, France for the opening sessions of the 3rd UN Oceans Conference, Palau’s President Surangel Whipps Jr has delivered a...