59 h. ago The tropical island paradise with direct flights from the UK and 29C heat in September

The Caribbean is a region of the Americas that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands and the surrounding coasts. It is located South-East of the Gulf of Mexico and the North American mainland, east of Central America, and north of South America.

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4 d. ago Trump sets 8 warships on cartel gang as locals 'hide' while US hunts for crime boss

The U.S. Navy is deploying eight warships to the Caribbean and Pacific near Central and South America for a counter-narcotics mission targeting Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro

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4 d. ago Andrea Berta's bag of tricks that won the transfer window for Arsenal: Data he has that no one else does, key email that sealed Eberechi Eze deal, a South America trip, ex

The story goes that when Andrea Berta quit a safe job in banking in his mid-20s to gamble on a career in football his aghast mother came close to fainting.

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6 d. ago US Coast Guard makes record seizure of illegal drugs off Florida coast

The coast guard said it had interdicted 61,740lbs of cocaine and 14,400lbs of marijuana with a street value of $473mThe US coast guard announced on Monday that it had seized more than 76,000lbs of illegal drugs off the coast of Florida – marking the largest drug offload in the 110-year history of the maritime law enforcement agency.According to a news release from the branch of the US military, officials offloaded approximately 61,740lbs of cocaine and approximately 14,400lbs of marijuana at Port Everglades, Florida, on Monday. The officials said that the total estimated street value of the haul was $473m. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago The Coast Guard seized a record 76,000 pounds of drugs this summer off Central and South America

The U.S. Coast Guard says it seized a record 76,000 pounds of drugs this summer off Central and South America

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1 week ago It's the year of noctourism — I travelled to Chile's Atacama for the ultimate dark skies experience

Hungry to see what lies beyond Earth, Radhika Aligh heads to South America to see if she can discover celestial objects

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1 week ago Top officials of Amazon nations meet in Colombia to push joint rainforest protection plan

Leaders from South America's Amazon nations have gathered in Colombia to agree on a joint plan to protect the rainforest

Politics

1 week ago The Guardian view on Africa and maps: drawn true, its scale and promise can’t be ignored | Editorial

The push for fairer cartography rejects colonial shrinkage of a huge continent by the Mercator projection. This is not pedantry. It’s politicsThe African Union wants to replace the world’s most popular map with one that more accurately represents the continent’s size. This demand may seem better suited to geography departments than heads of government. Yet in politics, symbols matter. And the Mercator projection, devised in the 16th century to help European sailors navigate their way to conquest and commerce, has quietly shaped how we see the world for centuries.By stretching the higher latitudes and squeezing the equatorial belt, the Mercator projection distorts the relative size of continents. Europe and North America loom vast, while Africa and South America shrink. Greenland often appears roughly the same size as Africa, when in reality the continent is 14 times larger. The impression is that the north is large and central, the south peripheral and marginal. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Fisher who met King Charles is jailed for role in £18m cocaine

Peter Williams, 44, sentenced to almost 17 years after captaining boat that picked up packages off Cornish coastA respected fisher who met King Charles and government representatives to discuss the future of the industry has been jailed for taking part in a sophisticated plot to smuggle £18m of cocaine into the UK.Peter Williams, 44, was sentenced to 16 years and nine months for captaining a boat that went out to pick up packages of cocaine dropped into the sea off Cornwall by a “mother ship” transporting the drugs from South America. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Bolivia will choose a new president but environmental activists see little hope of progress

Bolivia heads into an Oct. 19 runoff between centrist Rodrigo Paz Pereira and right-wing ex-president Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga after nearly 20 years of socialist rule

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2 w. ago African Union joins calls to end use of Mercator map that shrinks continent’s size

Member states back Correct the Map campaign that urges governments and organisations to use more accurate mapThe African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa’s size.Created by the cartographer Gerardus Mercator for navigation, the projection distorts continent sizes, enlarging areas near the poles like North America and Greenland while shrinking Africa and South America. “It might seem to be just a map, but in reality, it is not,” the African Union Commission deputy chair, Selma Malika Haddadi, told Reuters, saying the Mercator fostered a false impression that Africa was “marginal”, despite being the world’s second-largest continent by area, with more than 1 billion people. The union has 55 member states. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Welsh teachers offered exciting role in South America with expenses paid

The British Council is looking for two Welsh teachers or tutors to take part in their Welsh Language Project in Patagonia. Successful applicants will get £750 per month, free accommodation, travel, and health insurance

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4 w. ago Moment British drug runner brags 'there's zero f*****g risk' in cocaine smuggling... days after his associates crashed boat into beach while trying to outrun Border Force

Alex Fowlie, 35, helped engineer a plan to bring the vast quantity of drugs from South America on a cargo vessel across the Atlantic before dumping them in water tight bales into the English Channel.

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