US prosecutors investigating Meta for role in illicit drug sales, WSJ says

[ad_1] The Wall Street Journal report also says the Food and Drug Administration is helping to investigate the Facebook owner. US prosecutors in Virginia are probing whether Facebook-parent Meta’s social media platforms facilitated and profited from the illegal sale of...

What is the history of foreign interventions in Haiti?

[ad_1] The proposal initially sparked an uproar. In October 2022, then-Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry and 18 top officials called on the international community to send a “specialised armed force” to help combat the spread of gang violence in Haiti....

Navalny ally Leonid Volkov attacked with hammer near Lithuanian home

[ad_1] Former strategist to Russian opposition leader was admitted to hospital after the assault on Tuesday night.Leonid Volkov, a close ally of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny who died last month in a remote penal colony, has been admitted to...

Haiti’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry has resigned: Guyana president

[ad_1] DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Announcement comes amid emergency CARICOM summit on the crisis in Haiti.Haiti’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry has resigned, according to Mohamed Irfaan Ali, Guyana’s president and the current chair of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). The 74-year-old Henry...

UN warns surge in gang violence puts pregnant women at risk in Haiti

[ad_1] ‘Too many women and young women in Haiti are victims of indiscriminate violence committed by armed gangs,’ UN says.The United Nations has warned that nearly 3,000 pregnant women could be cut off from essential health services in the Haitian...

Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez guilty in drug trafficking case

[ad_1] Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, 55, has been found guilty in a New York federal courtroom of participating in a scheme to ship cocaine through his country and into the United States. On Friday, a jury in the...

‘Terrible tragedy’: Canada rocked by mass killing of Sri Lankan family

[ad_1] The victims of a rare Ottawa mass killing included four children and two adults. A 19-year-old acquaintance was arrested. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has condemned the mass killing of an Ottawa family that had recently moved from Sri...

At least eight people injured in blast at cafe in India’s Bengaluru

[ad_1] Investigators suspect the bomb was an improvised device. The reason for the blast is yet to be determined.At least eight people have been injured in India’s tech capital when a suspected home-made bomb went off inside a popular cafe,...
‘Call it by its name’: How hateful rhetoric feeds anti-Palestinian violence

‘Call it by its name’: How hateful rhetoric feeds anti-Palestinian violence

[ad_1] Burlington, Vermont – With Israel waging war in the Gaza Strip and violence reaching new heights in the occupied West Bank, Hisham Awartani’s family thought he would be safer in the United States. That’s why, instead of going to...