theguardian.com reported the Body of Dominic Bernard, 18, who has been missing since October, found in shallow grave in farming village. Five people have been charged in connection with the murder of an aspiring British film-maker in Guyana.
Dominic Bernard, 18, from Epsom in Surrey, went missing shortly after arriving in the South American country last October. His body was discovered last week in a shallow grave in a farming village. He had suffered severe head injuries and authorities suspect he was the target of a robbery. Read Article
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telegraph.co.uk reported Olympic fans have been warned there will be no hospital beds for them if they get sick during Rio 2016 after a cash shortage plunged the city into a healthcare crisis. Some major hospitals have been forced to close their doors while even the most seriously ill patients cannot be admitted because of […]
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CHICAGO (WLS) — Chuck Goudie and others reported: One of our ABC7 Chicago colleagues was found murdered Friday while traveling in Belize, according to police in the Central American nation and the U.S. State Department. Anne Swaney was executive producer of online operations at abc7chicago.com. She was 39. Autopsy results determined that she was strangled. […]
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NYTIMES.com reported three Columbia University students on a volunteer medical mission to help the poor and sick in Honduras were killed on Wednesday in a bus crash that also left at least a dozen other students injured. The students were traveling on a road east of the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, when their bus veered off […]
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Pepperdine Student Dies in Ecuador Sophomore Cameron Johnson was enrolled in the university’s Buenos Aires, Argentina study abroad program. Pepperdine University students and staff mourned the death of a second student at the end of last week. Sophomore Cameron Johnson was found dead in the village of Baños, Ecuador, just six days after freshman Daniela […]
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Canadian who killed Briton at Peru retreat says it was ‘kill or die’ Theguardian.com reported that Joshua Stevens claims he had to stab Unais Gomes when Briton turned violent on double dose of hallucinogen ayahuasca. A Canadian man has told reporters he stabbed and killed a British friend in self-defense at a spiritual retreat in […]
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Venezuela Sold Immigration Documents to Hezbollah Terrorists. Frances Martel reports, faustasblog.com A Venezuelan diplomat in hiding is accusing the socialist government of President Nicolás Maduro of selling visas, passports, and even falsified birth certificates out of its embassy in Baghdad to an estimated thousands of Middle Eastern citizens, including at least one confirmed Hezbollah terrorist. […]
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rcnradio.com reported Maritime authorities alerted tourists to this time of year to visit the islands of San Andres and Providencia, due to the high waves that exist in the Caribbean Sea. The commander of the Specific Command of San Andres and Providencia, Admiral Andres Vasquez, said that near the island have been presented trade winds […]
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biprepwatch.com reported the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued travel notices this week regarding recent outbreaks of the Zika virus in Mexico, and parts of Central and South America. The CDC reports that the virus has been reported in the following countries as of Thursday: El Salvador, Panama, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Suriname, […]
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foxnews.com/ap (Sept 2015) reported an American tourist has been shot to death in Colombia during an apparent robbery attempt after leaving his hotel in a wealthy enclave of Medellin. Police say a 65-year-old New Yorker identified as John Mariani was assaulted Friday night when the taxi he was traveling was intercepted by gunmen in a […]
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