Seven more survivors of capsized boat rescued near Puerto Rico
The number of survivors – most of them migrants from Haiti – is now 38, with a death toll of 11 The US Coast Guard...
Month : May 2022
Intoxication can be violent crime defense, Canada supreme court rules
People accused of violent crimes such as homicide and sexual assault can use self-induced extreme intoxication as a defense Canada’s supreme court has ruled that...
Suspect held in Netherlands over 1994 Rwandan genocide
Dutch prosecutors say 64-year-old man accused of role in massacres arrested after extradition request A Rwandan man has been arrested in the Netherlands based on...
South Africa’s April floods made twice as likely by climate crisis, scientists say
Brutal heatwave in India and Pakistan also certain to have been exacerbated by global heating, scientists say The massive and deadly floods that struck South...
Chilean journalist dies after being shot while covering Workers’ Day marches
Francisca Sandoval, 29, is the first journalist to be killed in the line of duty in Chile since the Pinochet dictatorship A Chilean journalist who...
Female student in Nigeria beaten to death over ‘blasphemy’
Witnesses say police failed to disperse mob of fellow students in Sokoto who set victim on fire following WhatsApp comments A female student in Nigeria...
Twenty-year search for Rwanda genocide suspect ends in Zimbabwe grave
Exclusive: inside the manhunt for Protais Mpiranya, accused of Rwandan mass killings and the world’s most wanted war crimes fugitive The 20-year manhunt for one...
Hunger crisis grips Horn of Africa – but 80% of Britons unaware, poll shows
UK government urged to act as worst drought in 40 years threatens region while aid efforts and global attention remain focused on Ukraine war The...
Former Guantánamo prisoner on trial in France for extremism
Saber Lahmar has been charged with encouraging jihadists to fight for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria An Algerian preacher who spent eight years in...
Ex-Honduran leader seeks to subpoena Biden, Trump and Obama in drugs case
Former president Juan Orlando Hernández’s also suggests he may seek testimony from Mexican drug lord El Chapo in New York trial Former Honduran president Juan...
