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CARICOM to begin five-year strategic plan

Jan. 4, 2015

In his New Year message, Perry Christie, the Prime Minister of the Bahamas, who's also the new Chairman of CARICOM, said the community will in 2015 embark on a new ...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, taking part during an interview with Mexican TV host and journalist Adela Micha, at Venezuela's Military School, in Caracas, Venezuela

Venezuela's economy in recession

Jan. 2, 2015

The future of financial assistance from Venezuela to Dominica, through PetroCaribe and other programmes, looks bleak as that Central American country announced that its economy is taking a battering from ...

Objects suspected of being parts of missing AirAsia plane spotted ...

Dec. 30, 2014

JAKARTA, Dec. 30 (Xinhua/Sun) -- Objects suspected of being parts of a missing AirAsia passenger plane were spotted in the Java Sea off Indonesia on Tuesday, an Air Force officer ...

SINGAPORE, Dec. 28, 2014 (Xinhua) -- A relative (C) of a passenger on missing Air Asia flight QZ8501 leaves the holding area at Changi Airport in Singapore, Dec. 28, 2014.

Indonesia says verifying suspicious objects found in waters over missing ...

Dec. 29, 2014

JAKARTA, Dec. 29 (Xinhu/Sun) -- Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla said on Monday that searchers and rescuers were verifying suspicious objects spotted in the Java Sea where an AirAsia plane ...

ATHENS, Dec. 28, 2014 (Xinhua) -- Photo from a Greek website shows a view of an Italian-flagged ferry that caught fire off the Greek island of Corfu on Dec. 28, 2014.

289 rescued from Italian-flagged ferry: Greek officials

Dec. 29, 2014

ATHENS, Dec. 29 (Xinhua/Sun) -- At least 289 people have been evacuated to safety from an Italian-flagged ferry which caught fire off the Greek island of Corfu, the Greek authorities ...

SINGAPORE, Dec. 28, 2014 (Xinhua) -- A fiancee (C) of a passenger on AirAsia flight QZ8501 speaks to the media at Singapore's Changi Airport, on Dec. 28, 2014.

Missing AirAsia plane maybe at sea bottom: Indonesian official

Dec. 29, 2014

JAKARTA, Dec. 29 (Xinhua/Sun) -- The AirAsia plane with 162 people on board may has fallen into the bottom of the sea, 24 hours after the jetliner vanished from radar ...

AirAsia plane with 162 people on board loses contact in ...

Dec. 28, 2014

JAKARTA/KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 28 (Xinhua/Sun) -- The air searching for a missing AirAsia plane suspended on Monday evening due to darkness in the waters near the Bangka Belitung islands and ...

AirAsia plane with 162 people on board missing in Indonesia, ...

Dec. 28, 2014

JAKARTA/KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 28 (Xinhua/Sun) -- An AirAsia passenger plane with 162 people aboard lost contact with the air traffic control on Sunday soon after taking off from Surabaya in ...

Cuban President Raul Castro (1st R) talking with three of the Cuban agents called The Five, released by the United States of America, in Havana, Cuba.

Maduro: Cuba-U.S. rapprochement reflects changes in Latin America

Dec. 27, 2014

CARACAS, Dec. 26 (Xinhua/Sun) -- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said the recent rapprochement between Cuba and the United States is a sign of changing times in Latin America.

UN marks 10th anniversary of Indian Ocean tsunami

Dec. 26, 2014

UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 26 (Xinhua/Sun) -- Commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami, the UN Children's Fund ( UNICEF) commended the people of Aceh, Indonesia's western-most province, for ...

Indonesia remembers 10th anniversary of devastating tsunami

Dec. 26, 2014

BANDA ACEH, Aceh, Indonesia, Dec. 26 (Xinhua/Sun) -- A ceremony marking the devastating tsunami that hit Indonesia the worst ten years ago was held here on Friday, featuring appreciation to ...

Huge waves pound the Bayfront in Roseau, Dominica

Next year crucial for fight against climate change, but hurdles ...

Dec. 26, 2014

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (Xinhua/Sun) -- The clock is ticking toward next year when world leaders will converge on Paris in a bid to hammer out a deal on climate change, ...

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