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5 rescued as boat burns and sinks off Catalina Island
4 months, 3 weeks ago

5 rescued as boat burns and sinks off Catalina Island

LA Times  

A 51-foot power vessel caught fire off Catalina over the weekend, and firefighters could not save it. The fire started at around 7 a.m. Sunday on the “backside” of Catalina Island, said U.S. Coast Guard spokesman Richard Uranga. The vessel caught fire early Sunday off Catalina Island. Los Angeles County lifeguards at Baywatch Avalon and Baywatch Isthmus and L.A. County …

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Panama’s next president meets migrants at the Darien Gap, promises to shut down the perilous route
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Panama’s next president meets migrants at the Darien Gap, promises to shut down the perilous route

The Independent  

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Kra, New Delhi’s new KRA: Why a little-known isthmus in Thailand tells us much about China’s Indo-Pacific strategy. And why it impacts Andamans, strategically key for India
1 year ago

Kra, New Delhi’s new KRA: Why a little-known isthmus in Thailand tells us much about China’s Indo-Pacific strategy. And why it impacts Andamans, strategically key for India

Times of India  

The writer served as Foreign Secretary and is author of ‘After Tiananmen: The Rise of China’ Kra sounds like a fictional planet in an alien galaxy. A transit artery that links the two bodies of water could have global ramifications for international trade and security, similar to the Suez and Panama Canals in the 19th and 20th centuries. In October-November …

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Walking to America
1 year ago

Walking to America

Al Jazeera  

For those trying to reach the United States on foot, the deadly winds of the isthmus of Tehuantepec are just one of myriad existential obstacles. The family had joined up with the latest northbound migrant caravan to form in Mexico – although the caravan has since largely dissolved in accordance with divide-and-conquer tactics of the Mexican government and mafia outfits, …

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Panama’s Darien Gap a magnet for tourists, ‘hell’ for migrants
1 year, 5 months ago

Panama’s Darien Gap a magnet for tourists, ‘hell’ for migrants

Al Jazeera  

Deep in the Panamanian jungle, Venezuelan migrant Franca Ramirez was scrambling to reach higher ground as a rushing river broke its banks when something caught his eye: a group of young men snapping photos of the landscape. It is known as the “gap” on Panama’s Darien isthmus because it is the only missing section, running about 97km, on the Pan-American …

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Mexico seizes part of part railway line, sending in marines to take over
1 year, 7 months ago

Mexico seizes part of part railway line, sending in marines to take over

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — The Mexican government sent in marines Friday to take over part of a private railway line in southern Mexico. The government said it would compensate the owners for what it called the “temporary occupation” of the railway run by a Mexican company, Grupo Mexico Transportes. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador needs the rail line to fill out …

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How far are Ukraine and Russia from negotiations?
2 years, 1 month ago

How far are Ukraine and Russia from negotiations?

Al Jazeera  

Talks are a distant prospect, experts warn, as the battlefield reality and winter will dictate both sides’ strategic calculus. “It makes sense to wait for now – Ukrainian forces now have momentum, they are advancing further in Kherson and that progress is going to set the stage and conditions for any discussion,” said William Taylor, a US former ambassador to …

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All you need to know about the ongoing Ukraine-Russia conflict
3 years, 8 months ago

All you need to know about the ongoing Ukraine-Russia conflict

Op India  

On April 1, President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, accused Russia of the increasing presence of armed forces on the borders. He said, “military exercises and possible provocations along the border are traditional Russian games.” He further said that Russia is creating a threatening atmosphere across the border while Ukraine seeks to resume a ceasefire agreement. Russia’s control over the Crimean …

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Business as usual: Thousands cross Mexico’s southern border
3 years, 8 months ago

Business as usual: Thousands cross Mexico’s southern border

Associated Press  

FRONTERA COROZAL, Mexico — On the day this week that Mexico imposed new measures to shut down migrant crossings at its southern border, some 1,200 made the trip at a single remote jungle outpost without showing a document to anyone. “In practice there isn’t much control.” During a nearly 400-mile trip along the Mexico-Guatemala border, Associated Press journalists saw two …

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China’s ’Malacca dilemma’ remains
4 years, 3 months ago

China’s ’Malacca dilemma’ remains

Live Mint  

Amid the border standoff between India and China, the latter has suffered a severe blow from Thailand, which said it will scrap the Kra Canal project that Beijing wanted to build to shorten its access to the Indian Ocean, according to a media report. As per a TFIPOST report, China was pinning its hopes on the Kra Canal project, a …

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