Tren Maya: Mexico’s Yucatán mega train – world beating or environmental disaster?
To the ancient Maya, the cenotes of the Yucatán Peninsula were sacred as they believed them to be portals to the gods of the underworld. These underground caves are also one of the most unspoilt freshwater ecosystems in Latin America. Their tranquillity contrasts with...
US, UK launch large-scale retaliatory strikes on Iran-backed Houthi militants
The Houthis had made repeated attacks on Red Sea shipping despite U.S. warnings. The U.S. military has unleashed large-scale retaliatory strikes against multiple Houthi targets in Yemen following months of attacks by the Iranian-backed militants on commercial shipping...
As Argentina heads to the polls, will a plan to ditch the peso for the dollar be a vote-winner?
CNN — When voters go to the polls this Sunday to elect Argentina’s next president, they will have to choose not only between two candidates, but between two opposite ideas of what type of country they want to live in. That is an old adage in the era of identity...
The ‘walking route’: How an underground industry is helping migrants flee China for the US
San Diego, CaliforniaCNN — They come with backpacks carrying a few spare changes of clothes and whatever money and phones they weren’t robbed of by criminals or cartels along the way, arriving at the United States-Mexico border exhausted from the stress of the...
At least 103 killed in blasts near Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani’s grave
CNN — At least 103 people were killed Wednesday and 141 injured in the Iranian city of Kerman after twin blasts near the burial site of slain military commander Qasem Soleimani, in what officials called a terror attack, according to state media. The blasts came on the...
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