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Mar 23, 2025 | barbados.loopnews.com | Reginald Allen

LONDON (AP) — Iceland’s president on Sunday accepted the resignation of the North Atlantic island nation’s children’s minister who quit the government over a relationship she had with a teenager more than three decades ago. Ásthildur Lóa Thórsdóttir stepped down after national broadcaster RUV revealed last week that she had a child 35 years ago when she was 23, and the baby’s father was 16. RUV said the relationship began after the pair met at a church youth group when the teen was 15.

Mar 21, 2025 | barbados.loopnews.com | Melton Williams

Panama's Cecilio Waterman scores against the United States during the second half of a Concacaf Nations League semifinal football match Thursday, March 20, 2025, in Inglewood, Calif. (AP Photo/Etienne Laurent). INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Cecilio Waterman scored a stunning goal in the fourth minute of second-half injury time, and Panama beat the three-time defending champion United States 1-0 on Thursday night to reach the Concacaf Nations League final.

Mar 20, 2025 | barbados.loopnews.com | Melton Williams

COSTA NAVARINO, Greece (AP) — Kirsty Coventry was elected president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Thursday and became the first woman and first African to get perhaps the biggest job in world sports. “It is a signal that we are truly global,” the Zimbabwe sports minister and two-time Olympic swimming gold medalist said. Hers was a stunning first-round win in the seven-candidate contest after voting by 97 IOC members.

Mar 20, 2025 | barbados.loopnews.com | Alina Doodnath

China has taken a stance shared by several members of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) regarding the US government’s threat to widen visa restrictions for officials who support Cuba’s overseas medical missions, saying the missions have been welcomed in the Caribbean region. Speaking during a press briefing on March 19, 2025, in Beijing, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning accused the US of creating a false narrative of forced labour as an excuse to suppress other countries.

Mar 19, 2025 | barbados.loopnews.com | Alina Doodnath

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Stuck in space no more, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday, hitching a different ride home to close out a saga that began with a bungled test flight more than nine months ago. Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico in the early evening, just hours after departing the International Space Station. Splashdown occurred off the coast of Tallahassee in the Florida Panhandle, bringing their unplanned odyssey to an end.