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Top U.S. officials to discuss migration in Panama next week
By Kanishka Singh and Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro...
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Eastern Caribbean states open consulate in Western Sahara
(This March 31 story corrects to say Dominica instead of Dominican Republic) RABAT (Reuters) - The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean...
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Dominican Republic begins building border wall with Haiti
SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - The Dominican government on Sunday began building a wall that will cover almost half of the...
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Dominican Republic ends mask mandate, all other COVID-19 rules
SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - The Dominican Republic ended all COVID-19 public health restrictions on Thursday, including a mask mandate and...
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U.S. Coast Guard intercepts 191 Haitians aboard sailing vessel off Bahamas
By Brian Ellsworth MIAMI (Reuters) -The U.S. Coast Guard has intercepted 191 Haitian migrants aboard an overloaded sailing vessel off...
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Guatemala receives bodies of 15 migrants killed in Mexico trailer accident
By David Toro GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - The bodies of 15 people killed when a trailer carrying migrants overturned in...
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Mexico to promote job creation schemes in Caribbean, official says
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico plans to promote job creation programs in the Caribbean that President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador...
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Puerto Rican music producer Flow La Movie dies in Dominican plane crash
(Reuters) -A private jet crashed minutes after taking off outside Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic on Wednesday, killing all...
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Guatemala seeks aid, smuggler crackdown after Mexico migrant deaths
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Guatemala urged the United States on Friday to invest in the country and elsewhere in Central...
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Omicron will spread through Americas in time, warns regional health agency
BRASILIA (Reuters) - The Omicron variant of the coronavirus has so far been detected in the Americas in Argentina, Brazil,...
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Migrants from 12 countries among 600 found in two trucks in Mexico
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Migrants from 12 countries were among 600 people found hidden in the back of two trucks...
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COVID-19 deaths decline 17% in the Americas, says health agency
BRASILIA (Reuters) -COVID-19 deaths have decreased 17% in the Americas over the past week, but the most populous countries like...
Read moreDominican Republic to limit immigrants’ hospital access amid tensions with Haiti
SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - The Dominican Republic plans to limit access to public hospitals for illegal immigrants and review the...
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COVID-19 has retreated across the Americas, regional health agency says
By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) -COVID-19 deaths and infections have declined across the Americas for the 8th consecutive week, the...
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UK to remove final seven countries from COVID-19 travel ‘red list’
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain will remove next week the last seven countries on its coronavirus "red list", which currently requires newly...
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Panama, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic ask for U.S. help on migration
PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - The presidents of Panama, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic on Wednesday asked for U.S. assistance...
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Restricting travel over vaccine type could be discrimination, PAHO warns
By Daina Beth Solomon MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Countries should grant entry to vaccinated travelers regardless of which shot they...
Read moreDominican Republic convicts two people over corruption linked to Odebrecht
SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - A tribunal in the Dominican Republic has convicted two people for corruption involving Brazilian conglomerate Odebrecht,...
Read moreBahamas and Cuba intercept hundreds of Haitians at sea who were headed for U.S
HAVANA (Reuters) - Bahamian and Cuban authorities have intercepted hundreds of Haitians at sea seeking to reach the United States,...
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Italy gives COVID green light to six non-EU tourist destinations
MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's health ministry said on Tuesday it had given the go-ahead for travel to six non-European tourist...
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