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13 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: October 29, 2026.
Protesters met the king in Nassau with signs reading 'Pay us what you owe us.' Buckingham Palace says any formal apology is a matter for the British government.
Judge Paul Engelmayer rejected two of the government's three secrecy claims and gave the Justice Department two weeks to submit the memo for his private review.
Researchers who once threw out microbial DNA as contamination went back to it and rebuilt 70 bacterial genomes from Caribbean hamlet fish, most of them new to science. The most common ones carry every gene needed for chemosynthesis, which had never been documented in a fish.
An internal Army message seeks military police, a medical brigade, engineers and logistics commands that could be 'needed in 90-120 days' under Southern Command, U.S. officials told CBS News.
Six Cuban and Afghan nationals landed in Georgetown on Friday under a one-year arrangement run through a U.N. migration agency. Guyana pays nothing for their housing, and none of them are being resettled.
The state electric utility said the national system went down late Sunday, leaving about 10 million people in the dark. Crews began reconnecting circuits on Monday.
University of South Florida satellite data recorded 27 million metric tons of sargassum across the Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf in July, following a record 40 million tons in 2025 that never fully dispersed. Quintana Roo businesses report sales down 30 percent.
A military campaign launched in September has killed more than 200 people in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific. Families and legal experts say the strikes lack any plausible legal basis.
The Trump administration's months-long campaign against suspected trafficking vessels in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific has now killed nearly 200 people. The Pentagon's watchdog is reviewing whether targeting rules were followed.
American surveillance aircraft increase operations over the Caribbean island amid rising tensions in the region.
Operation Southern Spear has conducted 53+ airstrikes on vessels since September 2025, with human rights groups, Colombia, and Venezuela alleging many victims were civilians — not drug traffickers.
Researchers at the Florida Museum of Natural History discovered bee nest structures built inside the jaw bones of extinct hutias and ground sloth teeth in a Dominican Republic cave — the first known case of bees nesting in fossil cavities.
WatchThe island of 11 million people has gone dark again after an unexpected failure at the Nuevitas thermoelectric plant — the third nationwide blackout since March 16 as Cuba runs out of fuel.