SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s government sent 2,000 more suspects to a huge new prison built especially for gang members Wednesday, and the the justice minister vowed that “they will never return” to the streets ... Over the last 354 days, about 65,000 people have been arrested in the antigang campaign ... Source .
A Libyan flag flies as fireworks explode in LibyaDecember 6, 2016. Reuters-Yonhap. The UN nuclear agency said on Wednesday that approximately 2.5 tons of natural uranium had gone missing from a site in Libya ... (AFP). .
Israeli protesters have pressed ahead with demonstrations against a plan by the far-right government to weaken the independence of the judiciary, pushing back against Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu after he rejected a compromise proposal from PresidentIsaac Herzog that was meant to diffuse the crisis ... .
CycloneFreddy returned to the African coast for a second time in less than three weeks and set an unofficial record as the world's longest tropical storm, leaving with it a massive trail of death and destruction ... The president also attended a funeral ceremony for some of the victims in the Blantyre township of Chilobwe ... 'YOU CAN'T EVEN MOURN' ... .
Russia has today claimed it has beaten the US in the race to recover Washington's downed Reaper drone from the Black Sea. Leaked audio has appeared to reveal a Russian salvage team within Vladimir Putin'sBlack Sea Fleet saying they had found the wreckage of the US surveillance drone ... 'We raised part of the object,' one person replied before adding ... .
Daboya, Ghana — US commanders leading annual counter-terrorism exercises in West Africa have urged coastal countries to depend on each other to contain a spreading Islamist insurgency, rather than non-Western powers, after Mali hired Russian mercenaries in 2022 ... In March’s exercises, soldiers patrolled barren scrubland dotted with thin bushes.
The incident of a Russian fighter jet allegedly colliding with a US drone has attracted global attention, with growing worries over increasing direct confrontation between Russia and the US over the Ukraine crisis ... Russia noted the drone was detected near the Crimea peninsula ... (Web editor. Zhong Wenxing, Liang Jun). .
Guo Wengui, a Chinese billionaire known for his opposition to Beijing and ties to the administration of former US PresidentDonald Trump, has been charged in the United States with defrauding investors out of $1bn ... Je, who authorities say is currently at large, also faces an additional count of obstruction of justice ... .
French PresidentEmmanuel Macron's much-disputed plan to raise the retirement age by two years to 64 moved forward on Wednesday as a select group of lawmakers from both houses of parliament agreed a compromise text, despite nationwide protests ... Advertisement ... It should not be too hard to get the Senate's approval, as it is dominated by LR ... .
Pakistani police failed to arrest former Prime MinisterImran Khan after two days of clashes between Khan supporters from his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party and police. On Wednesday afternoon, a court in Lahore ordered the immediate halt of the operation to arrest Khan until 10 a.m. on Thursday ... (credit. Mohsin Raza/Reuters) ... Dr ... He tweeted on Tuesday ... .
The Biden administration has demanded that TikTok's Chinese owners divest their stakes in the popular video app or face a possible U.S. ban, the company told Reuters on Wednesday. . The move is the most dramatic in a series of recent steps by U.S. officials and legislators who have raised fears that TikTok's U.S ... users. ...IOSAndroid ... .
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Over 90% of its residents have fled, much of it lies in ruins, tens of thousands have been killed, and its strategic importance has been played down by the Pentagon and NATO chiefs. Yet Russia and Ukraine are still battling for the small city of Bakhmut... It also claims to be decimating Ukrainian forces ... It has also involved house-to-house fighting.