21 h. ago Transatlantic holiday flight is forced to divert to remote islands after tourist 'starts attacking fellow passengers'

A transatlantic World2Fly flight from Katowice, Poland to the Dominican Republic was aborted after a man went on a 'drug-fuelled' rampage and began attacking fellow passengers.

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51 h. ago Remember to give thanks to yourself during the holidays and beyond

Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on what we have to be grateful for

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52 h. ago Dominican Republic ready to take on Jamaica’s tourism after Hurricane Melissa

The Dominican Republic has so far welcomed more than 8 million visitors from January to October

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63 h. ago Dominican Republic authorizes arrival of 800 new flights as tourists rerouted after 'Melissa'

The Dominican Republic has authorized the arrival of 800 new flights to accommodate a surge in tourists who were originally planning to vacation in Jamaica and other nearby islands but were rerouted following the devastation of Hurricane Melissa

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63 h. ago Dominican Republic grants US access to restricted areas for its deadly fight against drugs

The president of the Dominican Republic says he has authorized the U.S. government to operate inside restricted areas in the Caribbean country to help in its fight against drug trafficking

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1 week ago Supreme court to review Trump policy of limiting asylum claims at border

Trump administration’s claim it has authority to ‘meter’ applications may turn on definition of arriving in USThe US supreme court agreed on Monday to hear a defense by the Trump administration of the government’s authority to limit the processing of asylum claims at ports of entry along the US-Mexico border.The court took up the administration’s appeal of a lower court’s determination that the “metering” policy, under which US immigration officials could stop asylum seekers at the border and decline to process their claims, violated federal law. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Migrant with a 'receding hairline and deep voice' wins age case after an immigration judge rules he is 15

Authorities in Britain believed the asylum seeker was 24 when he arrived because of his 'mature physical demeanour', a tribunal heard - but the migrant insisted he was 15.

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2 w. ago Dozens of cruise passengers are left floating in the Caribbean Sea after 40ft catamaran sinks during excursion

Some 55 holidaymakers had been taking part in a sailing activity as part of their cruise holiday on Saturday in the Dominican Republic before the incident took place.

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2 w. ago Caribbean cruise ship terror as dozens overboard after trip boat sinks

Holidaymakers including elderly people and children were plunged into the sea after the shock incident off the coast of the Dominican Republic

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2 w. ago Cruise ship horror as dozens of passengers go overboard and struggle to swim off Caribbean coast

Around 55 passengers and crew were left struggling in the sea off the coast of the Dominican Republic after their daytrip catamaran sank, with an investigation now underway

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2 w. ago Cleveland 's Luis Ortiz to appear in court over allegations he took bribes to rig pitches

Cleveland Guardians pitcher Luis Ortiz is due in court on charges accusing him and teammate Emmanuel Clase of taking bribes to help bettors in their native Dominican Republic win prop bets placed on pitches they threw

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2 w. ago A closer look at the pitches by Clase, Ortiz cited in sporting gambling indictment

Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz were indicted Sunday on charges they took bribes from sports bettors to throw specific pitches that would trigger winnings on in-game prop bets

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3 w. ago BREAKING: US flights cancelled in their hundreds sparking travel chaos as passengers stranded

More than 800 flights within, departing, or leaving the US have been cancelled following an order from the Federal Aviation Administration to slash capacity

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3 w. ago Major flight cancellations hit airports as Trump administration cuts services over government shutdown

By late Thursday over 800 flights within and in and out of the U.S. had already been canceled for Friday

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3 w. ago Climate change boosted Hurricane Melissa's destructive winds and rain, analysis finds

An analysis from World Weather Attribution reports human-caused climate change intensified the winds and rainfall unleashed by Hurricane Melissa in the Caribbean

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3 w. ago The many uses of leftover chutney, from breakfast to soups and glazes | Kitchen aide

With Christmas around the corner, our panel of experts recommends creative ways to finish off half-eaten jars before the new ones arrive Every Christmas I’m given chutney, and I still have four barely used jars. What to do with them before the next lot arrive? Christine, OxfordThis sounds like a job for Claire Dinhut, author of The Condiment Book, who also goes by the moniker Condiment Claire. She would approach this meal by meal, starting with breakfast. “It might not seem so obvious,” she says, “but I put Branston pickle on my avocado toast. If you think about it, you often add acidity, which is usually lemon, but chutney is punchy and has that same tang, as well as a bit of texture.” Regardless of what jars Christine has hanging around, Dinhut would also consider the breakfast bap: “Whether it’s spicy mango, peach, chilli or tomato chutney, that would be so delicious with an egg yolk.”Roger Pizey, executive head of pastry at Fortnum & Mason, is no stranger to Christine’s chut...

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4 w. ago More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care

Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickersMore than 50 lone child asylum seekers who disappeared soon after arriving in the UK and while in the care of the authorities are still missing, according to data obtained by the Guardian.Many of the missing children arrived in small boats or hidden in the backs of lorries and are thought to have been taken by traffickers. Kent is often the place where they arrive. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Trump’s military pressure on Maduro evokes Latin America’s coup

US forces and CIA actions target Venezuela’s leader, recalling coups and assassinations across the regionThe ghosts of sometimes deadly Latin American coups of the past are being evoked by Donald Trump’s relentless military buildup targeting Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s autocratic socialist leader, whom Washington has branded a narco-terrorist.Salvador Allende, the democratically elected Marxist president of Chile toppled in a military coup in 1973, and Rafael Trujillo, the longstanding dictator of the Dominican Republic who was assassinated in 1961 in an ambush organized by political opponents, are just two regional leaders whose fates serve as a warning to Maduro. Continue reading...

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