The dark side of Medellín’s sex tourism: Child prostitutes and depraved men (english.elpais.com)
Mayor Federico Gutiérrez banned prostitution in tourist areas after an American was caught with two young girls in a hotel room...
Israeli Spy Chief Accidentally Blows Cover with Amazon Self-Publishing (newrepublic.com)
IDF: Efrat Katz was likely killed by IAF helicopter fire during abduction by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7 (www.timesofisrael.com)
An IDF probe has determined that Efrat Katz, 68, was likely killed by Israeli Air Force helicopter fire while Hamas terrorists kidnapped the Kibbutz Nir Oz resident on October 7....
Monkey attack leads to first human case of B virus in Hong Kong (www.bloomberg.com)
Man admitted to the hospital March 21 is in critical condition...
World Central Kitchen workers killed by Israeli strike in Gaza, José Andrés says (www.washingtonpost.com)
World Central Kitchen founder José Andrés said Monday that several of the group’s employees were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza. Andrés, a celebrity chef, called those who died his “sisters and brothers” and “angels” in a statement on social media....
Total solar eclipse to sweep across Mexico, the US and Canada (www.theguardian.com)
The moon will pass directly in front of the sun, exposing ghostly traces of the sun’s atmosphere...
Taiwan’s Indigenous tribes could hold the key to its independence (www.politico.eu)
By calling for conquest, Xi has made an enemy of the Taiwan’s tribes, which rightfully say their ancestors inhabited the island long before the dawn of the Chinese era....
Israel carries out several attacks inside Lebanon and Syria killing civilians (peoplesdispatch.org)
An Israeli attack on an emergency response center in Lebanon killed seven people. Another set of strikes on Syria killed several soldiers and an Iranian military adviser...
Haitians Don’t Need More “Dumbasses” From the US State Department Weighing In on the Crisis (www.thenation.com)
In 2021, envoy Foote started to work with this coalition, which was called the Montana Accord and eventually included some 650 organizations and individuals—labor unions, community organizations, Catholic and Protestant churches, women’s groups, chambers of commerce, and a range of political groups. The State Department...
How did Canada end up with worse air quality than the US? (www.theguardian.com)
Year of devastating wildfires meant Canadians were breathing worse air than southern neighbours for first time ever...
Gaza: Increasing numbers of newborns on brink of death, agencies warn (news.un.org)
“What doctors and medical staff are telling us is more and more they are seeing the effects of starvation; they’re seeing newborn babies simply dying because they (are) too low birth weight,” said Dr Margaret Harris from the UN World Health Organization (WHO)....
Gangs unleash new attacks on upscale areas in Haiti's capital, with at least a dozen killed nearby (apnews.com)
Niger junta repudiates deal allowing US military bases on its soil (www.theguardian.com)
Niger’s ruling military junta says it has revoked with immediate effect a military accord that allows US military personnel and civilian staff on its soil....
US Intel: ISIS, al Qaeda, Hamas, & Hezbollah (www.wilsoncenter.org)
Thailand election body seeks to dissolve progressive party that won 2023 vote (www.theguardian.com)
Move comes after court found that efforts to amend lese majeste laws by Move Forward party were unconstitutional...
Former president of Honduras convicted in US of aiding drug traffickers (apnews.com)
Nicaragua Sues Germany at ICJ Over Israel Support, Alleges Genocide Facilitation (bnnbreaking.com)
Nicaragua’s petition centers on accusations that Germany’s actions violate crucial international treaties, including the 1948 Genocide Convention and the 1949 Geneva Convention. By providing financial and military aid to Israel and discontinuing support for the UNRWA, Nicaragua argues, Germany is complicit in facilitating...
Hamas claims seven hostages killed in captivity in Gaza (www.jpost.com)
S. Korea empowers nurses as doctors' strike continues (www.rfi.fr)
Mom loses $820,000 injuries claim after she was pictured tossing a Christmas tree (www.nbcnews.com)
Supporters of Brazil's Bolsonaro stage huge demonstration to defend him amid investigations (apnews.com)
WWII-era bomb safely detonated at sea after one of the largest peacetime evacuations in UK history (apnews.com)
A World War II-era bomb whose discovery prompted one of the largest peacetime evacuations in British history has been detonated at sea, the Ministry of Defense said on Saturday....
White House scrambles for legal loopholes in Yemen war (thecradle.co)
El Salvador's Bukele wins supermajority in Congress after painstaking vote count (apnews.com)
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele and his New Ideas party have won the supermajority the leader needs in Congress to govern as he pleases, electoral officials announced Monday....
Poland's new government deprograms its once far-right public media (www.npr.org)
WARSAW, Poland — It’s 7:30 in the evening in Warsaw, and public news broadcaster TVP Info is about to broadcast live to millions of viewers across Poland. Producers in a crowded control room scurry in and out, sometimes stopping to peer through a narrow window into a studio where the host reads from a teleprompter....
