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Police outside the entrance to the Mexican embassy in Quito — courtesy EPA
Mexico cuts diplomatic ties with Ecuador after Jorge Glas arrest
QUITO — Mexico is cutting ties with Ecuador after police stormed the Mexican embassy in Quito to arrest former Ecuadorian Vice-President Jorge Glas.Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said they had “forcibly entered” the embassy in a “flagrant violation of international law”.Glas took refuge in the embassy last December after Ecuador issued an arrest warrant against him for alleged corruption.Glas’s lawyer said he was innocent.Glas served as Ecuador’s vice-president between 2013 and 2017. He was relieved of his duties because of mounting corruption allegations against him.Later that year he was sentenced to six years in jail in connection with corruption at the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht. Prosecutors said he took $13.5m (£10.2m) in bribes.He was...
April 06, 2024

Mexico cuts diplomatic ties with Ecuador after Jorge Glas arrest

Earthquake shakes New York and New Jersey.
New York and beyond rattled by rare East Coast earthquake
NEW YORK — New York and cities on the US East Coast are assessing the impact of a rare earthquake that swayed landmarks and cracked roads.The magnitude-4.8 quake struck at 10:23 local time (15:23 BST) near Lebanon, New Jersey, and could be felt from Pennsylvania to Connecticut.Residents spoke of being rocked by a violent rumbling that threw objects around their homes and damaged walls.Officials are now conducting safety assessments of infrastructure.At least six aftershocks were reported by residents and the United States Geological Survey, including one with a 4.0 magnitude felt around 18:00 local time.In New York, the Statue of Liberty was seen swaying during the initial earthquake, while workers and residents across the city’s five boroughs reported violent rumbling.Jane Coxwell...
April 06, 2024

New York and beyond rattled by rare East Coast earthquake

A man sits in a cage with portraits of hostage Elad Katzir during a demonstration in Tel Aviv in March. — courtesy AFP
Israel’s military says body of hostage recovered in night raid
TEL AVIV — Israel’s military says it has recovered the body of a man taken hostage and held in Gaza, in an overnight raid on Khan Yunis.Elad Katzir was taken from Kibbutz Nir Oz during the Hamas attacks on southern Israel on Oct. 7.His body has been brought back to Israel, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Israel Securities Authority (ISA) said.He was identified by medical officials, and his family has been informed.The IDF and ISA said in a joint statement: “The body of the abductee Elad Katzir, who according to intelligence was murdered in captivity by the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization, was rescued overnight from Khan Yunis and returned to Israeli territory.”They said his remains were located using “precise” intelligence.Katzir, 47, was abducted from Nir Oz with his...
April 06, 2024

Israel’s military says body of hostage recovered in night raid

Benedicto Lucas Garcia followed proceedings via video link. — courtesy Getty Images
Guatemala ex-general on trial accused of genocide
GUATEMALA CITY — A former general accused of ordering the murder of more than 1,200 indigenous Ixil Maya people during Guatemala’s civil war has gone on trial.Benedicto Lucas Garcia, 91, has been indicted for genocide, crimes against humanity — including widespread rape — and forced disappearances.Survivors from one village say Garcia’s troops killed children, babies and the elderly. He denies the charges.The alleged crimes occurred between 1978 and 1982, when Garcia’s brother Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia was president of Guatemala.Benedicto Lucas Garcia is accused of planning and executing over 30 massacres in the western region of Quiche.Lawyer Nery Rodenas, director of the Human Rights Office of the Archbishopric of Guatemala, told the AFP news agency that survivors had...
April 06, 2024

Guatemala ex-general on trial accused of genocide

An NYPD vehicle. — courtesy Getty Images
NY police to pay $17.5m over hijab mugshot row
NEW YORK — New York’s police department is to pay $17.5m (£14m) in a class action case led by two Muslim women who were forced to remove their hijabs while having mugshots taken.The 2018 case argued that Jamilla Clark and Arwa Aziz suffered violations of religious freedom and privacy.Lawyers say more than 3,600 people are eligible for pay-outs under the deal.Police policy changed four years ago to allow hijabs. The city said the case had “resulted in a positive reform”.The compensation deal must still be approved by the federal judge overseeing the case, however.According to court records, Clark wept and begged to put her hijab back on while police took her photo.“When they forced me to take off my hijab, I felt as if I were naked, I’m not sure if words can capture how exposed...
April 06, 2024

NY police to pay $17.5m over hijab mugshot row

British sailors, Royal Marines and a US Coast Guard team on HMS Trent intercepted a smuggling speedboat. — courtesy Ministry of Defense
Royal Navy: Nearly £17m worth of drugs seized in Caribbean
LONDON — British sailors, Royal Marines and a US Coast Guard team on HMS Trent intercepted a smuggling speedboatThe Royal Navy has seized nearly £17m worth of drugs after it intercepted smuggling speedboats in the Caribbean Sea.Across two operations, HMS Trent seized 200kg of cocaine and other drugs with an estimated street value of £16.7 million.Defense Secretary Grant Shapps praised the Navy’s work.He said it showed the Navy’s commitment to “disrupt and dismantle” drug traffickers.British sailors, Royal Marines and a US Coast Guard team on HMS Trent intercepted a smuggling speedboat immediately following a port visit to the island of Martinique, according to the Ministry of Defense (MoD).It added the HMS Trent warship launched fast sea boats, piloted by Royal Marines of 47...
April 06, 2024

Royal Navy: Nearly £17m worth of drugs seized in Caribbean

Bosworth MP Luke Evans said he contacted the police after becoming “a victim of cyber-flashing and malicious communication”.
Conservative MP Luke Evans says he reported cyber-flashing to police
LONDON — A Tory MP has said he is one of the men to have been sent unsolicited explicit messages in a suspected honeytrap plot targeting Westminster.Bosworth MP Luke Evans said he contacted the police after becoming “a victim of cyber-flashing and malicious communication”.It has been reported that up to 13 men have received suspicious messages, raising security concerns. The men are thought to include a government minister and advisers.Some had been sent naked images, and two MPs are reported to have responded by sending images of themselves.It comes after fellow Conservative MP William Wragg made an apology, having admitted giving some MPs’ personal phone numbers to a man on a gay dating app.The Met Police has confirmed it is “carrying out an investigation following reports that...
April 06, 2024

Conservative MP Luke Evans says he reported cyber-flashing to police

UN Secretary-General António Guterres briefs the media outside the Security Council on the situation in Gaza. — courtesy UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
Israel must allow ‘quantum leap’ in aid delivery UN chief urges
NEW YORK — Israel must make meaningful changes in the way it is fighting in Gaza to avoid civilian casualties while also undergoing “a true paradigm shift” in lifesaving aid delivery, the UN chief said on Friday.Marking six months of war since the “abhorrent” Hamas-led terror attacks of Oct. 7, António Guterres told journalists at UN Headquarters in New York that nothing could justify the horror unleashed by Palestinian militants that day.“I once again utterly condemn the use of sexual violence, torture injuring and kidnapping of civilians, the firing of rockets towards civilian targets and the use of human shields”, he said, calling again for the unconditional release of all hostages still being held in the Gaza Strip.Having met many of the family members of those held...
April 06, 2024

Israel must allow ‘quantum leap’ in aid delivery UN chief urges

A residential block in the Al-Shaboura neighborhood in the city of Rafah, lies in ruins. — courtesy UN News/Ziad Taleb
Planning the post-war reconstruction and recovery of Gaza
GAZA — The destruction wrought across the Gaza Strip by Israel in the six months since the massacre of Israeli and other citizens by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023 makes for grim reading – over 33,000 people killed and, according to the World Bank, over one million Palestinians are without homes, close to 90 percent of health facilities have been damaged or wrecked and schools have been destroyed or turned into shelters for the newly homeless.In a statement issued on Saturday marking six months of conflict, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths noted that each day the war claims more civilian victims, after the horror of Oct. 7 and the death and devastation rained down on the people of Gaza since.“Rarely has there been such global outrage at the toll of the conflict with seemingly...
April 06, 2024

Planning the post-war reconstruction and recovery of Gaza

Volodymyr Zelensky
Zelensky is Europe's most popular leader, poll reveals
BRUSSELS — Almost half of Europeans have a positive opinion of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky but the feeling varies wildly across member states.This is one of the main conclusions from an exclusive Euronews poll conducted by Ipsos among almost 26,000 respondents across 18 member states ahead of the elections to the European Parliament, which will be held between 6 and 9 June.The first-of-its-kind survey shows that 47% of Europeans hold a "positive" opinion of Volodymyr Zelensky while 32% have a "negative" view. Meanwhile, 21% say they "don't know enough" about the president, who has topped headlines for the past two years and has travelled extensively around the continent to speak on behalf of his war-torn nation.This makes Zelensky the...
April 05, 2024

Zelensky is Europe's most popular leader, poll reveals

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