SAO PAULO (AP): Mexico, Chile and Uruguay have halted poultry imports from Brazil after the country confirmed its first bird flu outbreak on a commercial farm, authorities said Saturday. On Friday, Brazil’s Agriculture and Livestock ministry said China and the European Union had halted poultry imports from Brazil. Mexico’s National... Read more

On April 24 United States President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order on seabed mining which has major implications for the work of the International Seabed Authority, based in Kingston, Jamaica. The authority as well as most states in the international community will be obliged to challenge the Executive Order... Read more

The Court of Appeal has barred Gorstew Limited’s board from appointing a new director – marking a key legal victory for Sandals Executive Chairman Adam Stewart in his ongoing battle to prevent his removal from the helm of the company. Gorstew is a cornerstone of the late Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart’s... Read more

HANOI, Vietnam (AP): Vietnam has approved a US$1.5 billion proposal by the Trump Organization and its Vietnamese partner to build golf courses, hotels and real estate projects in the Southeast Asian country, state-run media reported Friday. The project spanning 990 hectares (2,446 acres) in northern Vietnam’s Khoai Chau district will... Read more

DIKWA, Nigeria (AP): Under the dappled light of a thatched shelter, Yagana Bulama cradles her surviving infant. The other twin is gone, a casualty of malnutrition and the international funding cuts that are snapping the lifeline for displaced communities in Nigeria’s insurgency-ravaged Borno state. “Feeding is severely difficult,” said Bulama,... Read more