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ARGUINEGUIN, Spain (Reuters) -An unprecedented nearly 5,000 migrants have died at sea in the first five months of 2024 trying to reach the Spanish Canary Islands, according to a report released by migration rights group Walking Borders on Wednesday.

Migrants dying in unprecedented numbers on Canary Islands route, NGO says

The Independent

 For many migrants who’ve long dreamed of Europe, one of the last stops is an expanse of olive trees on North Africa's Mediterranean coastline.But in Tunisia, less than 100 miles (161 kilometers) from the Italian islands that form the European Union’s outermost borders, for many that dream has become a nightmare.Under black tarps covered with blankets and ropes, men, women and children seek shelter from sunlight and wait for their chance to board one of the iron boats that paid smugglers use to transport people to Italy. Having fled war, poverty, climate change or persecution, they find themselves trapped...

Stranded migrants confront violence and despair as Tunisia partners to keep them from Europe

Kenyan protesters vowed on Thursday to keep up their demonstrations against President William Ruto's government despite his pledge to withdraw proposed tax hikes that prompted a week of deadly unrest. He backed down on fiscal measures that the government had said were needed to fix the nation's creaking finances. Many activists say they now want more, including a complete overhaul of the government and Ruto's resignation. For in-depth analysis on the anti-finance bill protests, the ensuing crackdown and the deadly fallout, FRANCE 24's François Picard is joined by Otsieno Namwaya, Author and Human Rights Watch East Africa Director.

Kenya's president 'had no option but to climb down' following violent crackdown on mass protests

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The FBI has seen a rise in scams targeting timeshare owners. In this kind of scam, criminals con these part-time property owners into shelling out hefty sums of cash, all under false pretenses related to their timeshare properties.

FBI warns that Mexican cartels are targeting Americans with timeshare scams

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Hundreds of Hajj pilgrims have died and thousands have been treated for heatstroke in Saudi Arabia after temperatures topped 50°C.Some 165 Indonesians are among the dead, CNN Indonesia reported. Additionally, at least 41 Jordanians, 35 Tunisians, and 11 Iranians have died, according to authorities in each country.The Guardian reported that Arab diplomats on Tuesday (June 18) told Agence France-Presse at least 550 pilgrims had died this year, the majority due to heat-related illnesses after temperatures reached 51.8°C in Mecca, Islam's holiest cityA further 22 Jordanians are missing and 26 Iranians have been hospitalised, according to Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency. It is thought...

What is Hajj and why are there so many deaths during the Muslim pilgrimage?

 The pier built by the US military to bring aid to Gaza is being removed due to weather to protect it, and officials say they are considering not re-installing it unless aid begins flowing out into the population again.While the military has helped deliver desperately needed food through the pier, the vast majority of it is still sitting in the adjacent storage yard because of the difficulty that agencies have had moving it to areas in Gaza where it is most needed, and that storage area is almost full.The pier has been instrumental in getting more than 15 million...

US set to remove $320m Gaza humanitarian pier - and it may never come back

Kohli's run of low scores at the tournament continued when he was dismissed for just nine in a semi-final win against defending champions England in Guyana. He pulled Reece Topley for six but two balls later the left-arm paceman bowled Kohli as he knocked over the leg stump. Former captain...

Rohit says struggling Kohli 'saving it for the final'

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MAHANOY CITY – Two members of a motorcycle club were convicted on federal charges, accused...
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Convicted motorcycle club members orchestrated ‘brutal’ home-invasion in Mahanoy, feds say

Three suspected leaders of a failed coup against Bolivian President Luis Arce were remanded in custody on Friday for six months, the country's top prosecutor said. Former army chief Juan Jose Zuniga, former head of navy Juan Arnez and Alejandro Irahola, former head of the army's mechanized brigade, will be held in a high-security prison not far from the capital La Paz. Zuniga has claimed that he was following Arce's orders and that the president had hoped for the coup to trigger a crackdown that would boost his popularity.

Suspected leaders of Bolivian coup attempt remanded in custody

Since February, Haiti has been facing an unprecedented political and security crisis. The country is ravaged by gang violence, with 80 percent of the capital Port-au-Prince under the control of gangs accused of countless atrocities. The airport, which had been closed for three months, has just reopened. But it's still extremely tough to get humanitarian aid into Haiti. In the United States, where more than a million Haitians live, the diaspora lives in daily fear of receiving bad news from their loved ones left behind. FRANCE 24's Fanny Allard reports.

Haiti's gang violence crisis: Fears grow among Miami diaspora

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Fifty miles up the coast from Gaza, where an Israeli offensive continues to shatter the besieged strip, Israel’s former chief spy Tamir Pardo is a world away from the war without end, in his office in Israel’s tech hub in the manicured city of Herzliya. From 2011 to 2016 Pardo was the director of Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, Mossad. He says the seeds that led to this moment of dread were sown over the previous two decades.The bloody, unprecedented attack on Oct. 7, 2023, sparked widespread Israeli anger at a government that promised them perpetual calm in lieu of peace.The...

‘Arrogance’ & ‘Bullshit:’ Top Insiders on Netanyahu’s Catastrophic Oct. 7 and Gaza War

The river Seine is still failing water quality tests one month before the Paris Olympics when it is scheduled to host the open-water swimming competition and the swimming leg of the triathlon, results showed Friday. The latest tests, completed last week and released by the Paris mayor's office, showed levels of the E.Coli bacteria – an indicator of faecal matter – are far above the upper limits imposed by sports federations.

River Seine fails water quality tests 30 days from Paris Olympics

Younis lays disorientated on a green mattress in Nasser Hospital, in southern Gaza. His long brown eyelashes rest delicately on his pale sunken face, as he drifts in and out of sleep.

Children are dying of starvation in their parents’ arms as famine spreads through Gaza

 The U.N. Security Council on Thursday approved a resolution demanding Yemen’s Houthi rebels halt all attacks on ships and urged that the disruption to maritime security in a critical Middle East waterway be urgently addressed. The resolution made no mention that the Iran-backed rebels claim they are staging the attacks because of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. The resolution, which also extended the requirement that U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres report monthly on the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, was approved by a 12-0 vote, with Russia, China and Algeria abstaining.Shipping has reduced drastically...

UN Security Council demands Iran-backed Yemen rebels halt their attacks on ships in Mideast waters

The latest tests, completed last week and released by the Paris mayor's office, showed levels of the E.Coli bacteria -- an indicator of faecal matter -- are far above the upper limits imposed by sports federations. On June 18, the level of E.Coli was 10 times acceptable levels and at...

River Seine unfit for swimming one month from Paris Olympics: tests

NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani has extended his lead in the West African nation's presidential election, provisional results showed on Sunday.

Mauritania's President Ghazouani extends lead in election

"A coalition of terrorist armed groups" attacked security forces near the village of Tassia, leaving "21 martyrs including one civilian" and nine injured, the ministry announced in a statement on national television. It said "several dozen" of the assailants were killed and that aerial and ground reinforcements were being deployed...

Niger in mourning after 'terrorist armed group' kill 20 soldiers, one civilian

Thompson, with a wind of 0.9m/sec, took the title in Kingston with Oblique Seville second in 9.82 and Ackeem Blake third in 9.92 to book their trips to the Paris Olympics. Thompson, 22, improved upon the year's prior best, a 9.79 by Kenya's Ferdinand Omanyala two weeks ago in Nairobi.

Thompson, Jackson win 100m titles at Jamaican Olympic trials

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Morristown Minute

NEWARK, N.J. – Eight individuals associated with the "793 Bloods" street gang, a subset of the national Bloods gang, have been charged for their roles in a Newark-based drug trafficking organization, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

Eight '793 Bloods' Gang Members Charged in Newark Drug Network

 Philippine troops killed at least 10 suspected communist guerrillas in a clash in a remote northern area in the latest blow to a decades-old insurgency that has weakened considerably, with only about a thousand guerrillas remaining, military and security officials said Friday.Army troops caught up with about 20 New People’s Army guerrillas who were withdrawing from an earlier clash with government forces last week, sparking a firefight Wednesday that killed 10 rebels, including three commanders, near a village in Pantabangan town in Nueva Ecija province, the army said.Thirteen rifles and a pistol were recovered from the area of the...

Philippine troops kill 10 communist rebels in a clash, in the latest blow to decades-long insurgency

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‘A great hardship’: Niger-Benin tensions halt travel across border

Tensions between Benin and Niger have caused significant disruptions for travellers, with the...

‘A great hardship’: Niger-Benin tensions halt travel across border

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