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Tucson, Arizona, Nov 26 (EFE).- Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities in Arizona on Wednesday denied the request of a Mexican to halt his deportation proceedings, despite the fact that he could be one of those who would benefit from President Barack Obama’s executive action giving relief to millions of undocumented foreigners.Francisco Perez Cordova, the father of five U.S.-born childen and ...

London, Nov 27 (EFE).- The number of immigrants arriving in United Kingdom increased to 583,000 as of last June, compared to the 502,000 who arrived during the year ending in June 2013 the British Office for National Statistics, O.N.S., said in a report released Thursday. The figures represent a setback for conservative Prime Minister David Cameron’s immigration policy, as he had set ...

Huge corporate consumers of electricity in energy-rich Trinidad and Tobago have been told to brace for blackout in some areas of the country. That’s because of a gas pipe-line leak that authorities hope to seal during next week. But until then, major consumers of electricity like those in steel manufacturing are being told to conserve on electricity so that most ...

Brasilia, Nov 27 (EFE).- Deforestation in the official Amazon region, made up of the nine Brazilian states in the Amazon River basin, was reduced by 18 percent over a 12-month period, officials said. The Brazilian Amazon lost 4,848 sq. kilometers (1,871 sq. miles) of forest cover between August 2013 and July 2014, compared to the 5,891 sq. kilometers (2,274 sq. ...

Washington, Nov 27 (EFE).- An experimental vaccine against Ebola developed in the United States has successfully passed its first test in humans, sparking an immune response to the disease without serious secondary effects in the 20 volunteers who received it, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The clinical trial began in September at the ...

Caracas, Nov 26 (EFE).- A total of 41 alleged criminals fled on Wednesday morning from a jail managed by the CICPC scientific, penal and criminal research corps in the central Venezuelan city of Los Teques, in the state of Miranda.“According to preliminary information, at approximately 2 a.m. on Wednesday a total of 41 prisoners took advantage of a hole in ...

Amid rising tensions Port-au-Prince and other key Haitian cities in the wake of last month’s delayed elections, the top United Nations official in the country deplored the violence that recently caused injuries among demonstrators and called on all sides to respect the right to free expression while also avoiding any recourse to violence. “The freedom to demonstrate and freedom of ...

The Jamaica Parliament has begun debate to cut ties with the British Privy Council and make the Caribbean Court of Justice the final court of appeal. Prime Minister, Portia Simpson-Miller on Tuesday described resort to the Privy Council as a fundamental missing link in independence. Against the background of the expected insistence by the opposition Jamaica Labour Party that the ...

Antigua and Barbuda has finally completed the process to waive the need for work permits for nationals of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). The country is the last member-nation of the OECS to implement this along with the granting of indefinite stays for OECS nationals. The bill to meet the obligations under the OECS Economic Union was passed ...

San Juan, Nov 26 (EFE).- The U.S. Coast Guard rescued six boaters after their vessel ran aground on the rocks just off Coral Bay in St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Coast Guard personnel in the San Juan office received an emergency radio call from the group on Monday night asking for help, an official confirmed to Efe. A rescue crew ...