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Yesterday β€” 28 June 2024News

4 Missouri prison guards charged with murder, 5th with manslaughter, in death of Black man

28 June 2024 at 19:22
Four Missouri prison guards were charged Friday with murder, and a fifth with accessory to involuntary manslaughter, in the December death of a Black man who was pepper sprayed, had his face covered with a mask and was left in a position that caused him to suffocate while in custody at a correctional facility, according to a complaint filed Friday.

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First candidate drops out ofΒ IranΒ presidential election amid voter apathy

27 June 2024 at 05:06
A candidate in Iran’s presidential election withdrew from the race, becoming the first to back out in order for hard-liners to coalesce around a unity candidate.

Β© Morteza Fakhrinejad

Six candidates are vying to succeed the ultraconservative president Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash on May 19, 2024.

Kenya-led police force arrives in Haiti to tackle gang violence

26 June 2024 at 04:05
The first U.N.-backed contingent of foreign police arrived in Haiti on Tuesday, nearly two years after the troubled Caribbean country urgently requested help to quell a surge in gang violence.

Β© Carens Siffroy

People walk past a barricade in a road in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on March 20, 2024.

Β© Giles Clarke

Haitian Gang Leader Jimmy 'Barbecue' Cherizier is flanked by his henchmen in Port-au-Prince on Feb. 22, 2024.

U.S. journalist Gershkovich appears with shaved head as espionage trial begins in Russia

26 June 2024 at 02:50
Fifteen months after Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was arrested in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg on espionage charges, he returned there for his trial starting Wednesday behind closed doors.

Β© Natalia Kolesnikova

Gershkovich looks out from inside a padlocked defendants' cage prior to the hearing Wednesday.

Β© AFP - Getty Images file

Brittney Griner, left, and Victor Bout, second right, pass during a prisoner exchange on the tarmac of Abu Dhabi airport in 2022.

Olympic champion swimmers tell Congress U.S. athletes have lost faith in anti-doping regulator

25 June 2024 at 20:23
U.S. Olympic athletes have lost faith in the World Anti-Doping Agency to rid their sports of cheaters ahead of next month’s Summer Games in Paris, two former gold medalists said Tuesday in prepared before a House subcommittee.

Β© Jim Watson

Former Olympians Michael Phelps, from left, and Allison Schmitt, from right, and Anti-Doping Agency CEO Travis Tygart are sworn in before testifying before a House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill, on Tuesday.

Ultra-Orthodox must serve in Israel's military, top court rules in blow to Netanyahu

Israel’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that ultra-Orthodox Jewish men must be drafted into the military, a new blow to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that could lead to the collapse of his increasingly fragile governing coalition.

Β© Amir Levy

Ultra-Orthodox Jews have fiercely protested the proposed changes.

Maui ponders its future as leaders consider restricting vacation rentals loved by tourists

25 June 2024 at 03:05
Alicia Humiston bought her condo in Lahaina after she visited Maui and fell for its rainforests, lava fields and the whales that gather offshore.

Β© Mengshin Lin

The mayor of Maui County wants the units rented long-term to people who live on Maui to address a chronic housing shortage that intensified after last August’s deadly wildfire.
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