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Puerto Ricans have a critical choice to make on Election Day. Business Insider reports islanders will vote to decide if the US territory should move to become a state or be granted independence. If voters decide on statehood, the US territory would work to join the union and fully become incorporated into the United States. Full statehood would bestow constitutional rights on Puerto Ricans that they currently do not have: the ability to vote in presidential and congressional elections. However, there is nothing to compel or force the US Congress to act on Puerto Rico's political status as it is a territory, not a state. According to SB1467, if Puerto Rican voters vote against statehood, then a commission will negotiate Puerto Rican independence or free association.
San Juan, May 1 (EFE)..- Several protests commemorated on Friday Labor Day in the Puerto Rican capital respecting sanitary regulations imposed by the governor, Wanda Vázquez, to curb the COVID-19 crisis.(Camera: THAIS LLORCA)FOOTAGE SHOWS PUERTO RICANS PROTESTING FROM THEIR BALCONIES IN SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO.
Many investors may be unaware of their exposure to Puerto Rican debt, and could face losses now that the country has defaulted on a payment. Bobbi Rebell reports.
A handout photograph of Catherine, Princess of Wales, dominates UK newspaper front pages, with AFP and other agencies withdrawing the image over manipulation concerns after it was released by Kensington Palace as the first official portrait of the 42-year-old since undergoing surgery in January. The princess apologised and admitted to editing the image, which was released on Mother's Day and said to have been taken by her husband Prince William with their three children. IMAGES
Tourists react outside Buckingham Palace in London as King Charles III has been diagnosed with a form of cancer and has begun treatment, Buckingham Palace said earlier, just a week after he was discharged from hospital for prostate surgery. "It is really sad news for all the world" says Mahmoud Moeit, tourist from Egypt, while Ben Tan, from United States, declares "it's shocking". SOUNDBITE
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