by Reuters | Oct 6, 2022 | Environment, Top News, US
By Rod Nickel ARCADIA, Fla. (Reuters) – Hurricane Ian carried a one-two punch for the inland Florida city of Arcadia and its surrounding county. Located 50 miles north of Fort Myers and about 50 miles east of the Gulf Coast, Arcadia first suffered the immediate...
by Reuters | Sep 30, 2022 | Business, Economy, Environment, Europe, Politics, Top News
By Kate Abnett, Gabriela Baczynska and Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European Union countries disagreed on Friday about whether and how to cap runaway gas prices, with Germany among those opposing the measure that 15 other states said was needed to tackle...
by Reuters | Sep 28, 2022 | Economy, Environment, Latin America, Top News, US
By Dave Sherwood and Nelson Gonzalez PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba (Reuters) -Cuba’s electrical grid collapsed late on Tuesday, local officials said, leaving the entire country in the dark shortly after Hurricane Ian plowed through the western end of the island leaving a...
by Reuters | Sep 27, 2022 | Environment, Latin America, Top News, US
(This Sept 26 story has been refiled to delete extraneous word “in” in paragraph 6) By Shannon Stapleton and Brendan O’Brien TAMPA (Reuters) – Residents across Florida scrambled to place sandbags around their homes and stockpile emergency...
by Reuters | Sep 24, 2022 | Economy, Elections, Environment, Latin America, Politics, Top News, US
By Amanda Perobelli and Pilar Olivares SAO PAULO (Reuters) – A record number of indigenous leaders, most of them women, are running for federal office in Brazil’s election next month, in a backlash against the policies of President Jair Bolsonaro. As...
by Reuters | Sep 23, 2022 | Central America, Elections, Environment, Latin America, Politics, Top News
By Dave Graham and Diego Oré MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, a trained physicist vying to become the country’s first female president, is hoping her environmental credentials and success in curbing crime will help set her apart...