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Costa Rica Set for Summer Friendly Against England in Orlando

Costa Rica will face England on June 10 in a high-profile international friendly at Inter&Co Stadium in Orlando, Florida, with kickoff set for 2 p.m. in Costa Rica and 4 p.m. local time. The match will close out La Sele’s June FIFA window and gives the national team one of its biggest tests of the year. The game also lands in a strong setting for Costa Rica supporters in the United States. Inter&Co Stadium is a downtown Orlando soccer venue with a listed capacity of 25,500, which should give the match a tighter and louder feel than a larger NFL-style stadium. For a Costa Rica side looking for a meaningful summer stage, the Florida setting makes sense. England is treating the Florida trip as the final stretch of its World Cup buildup. Thomas Tuchel’s team will play New Zealand in Tampa on June 6 and then meet Costa Rica in Orlando four days later before moving on to its tournament base in Kansas City. England opens its World Cup campaign on June 17 and has been drawn with Croa...

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Costa Rica Designates Iran’s IRGC as a Terrorist Organization

Costa Rica has formally designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization, placing the country alongside a growing group of governments in Europe and Latin America that have taken the same step in recent months. The measure also applies to Hezbollah, Hamas and Ansar Allah, better known as the Houthi militia. The announcement came Wednesday night from Costa Rica’s Foreign Ministry, which said the National Security Council adopted the decision during its April 6 session. The ministry said the move followed a review of available background information and was made in line with Costa Rica’s international commitments in the fight against terrorism and terrorism financing. Costa Rica said the designation is meant to give intelligence agencies and the judiciary stronger tools for prevention, investigation and criminal prosecution. The ministry said the new classification will help authorities act more forcefully against any logistical or financial support netwo...

El Niño forecast points to hotter and drier months ahead in Costa Rica

Costa Rica is heading into a hotter and drier stretch in the coming months, with the National Meteorological Institute warning ( IMN ) that El Niño conditions are increasingly likely to take shape during the second half of 2026. The outlook points to less rainfall across the country, higher average temperatures, and a tougher dry-season feel even as the rainy season begins to settle in. For those us living here and people planning a longer stay, the forecast is more than a weather note. It could affect everything from water use and gardening to hiking schedules, home cooling costs, and wildfire risk, especially in the Pacific regions and Guanacaste, where the heat is expected to hit hardest. IMN director Welmer Stolz said temperature anomalies could run about 0.5 to 1 degree Celsius above normal, with Guanacaste standing out as the most affected area. The rainfall outlook is also notable. IMN projects below-normal precipitation across the country in several periods this year, with de...

Former Honduras President Thanks Trump For Overturned US Conviction

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández said Wednesday that a United States appeals court overturned the 45-year prison sentence for drug trafficking that had been imposed on him in 2024, after which he thanked President Donald Trump. Hernández, who governed Honduras from 2014 to 2022, was pardoned by Trump last November amid heavy pressure aimed at helping now-President Nasry Asfura, a political ally of the former leader, win the election. “It is a complete clean slate, it is total justice (…). We give thanks to President Trump, to all the friends who I know are thousands and thousands in Honduras and outside Honduras who have supported us,” Hernández said in a virtual conference from an unidentified US city. His message was broadcast during a press conference in which his wife, Ana García, announced that an appeals court overturned “the conviction and sentence,” and ordered Judge Kevin Castel to remove “the punishment imposed in June 2024.” “It is completely eliminated, th...

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