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United Nations experts on Friday called on Mexico to crack down on extortion by police and other officials targeting vulnerable migrants in flagrant violation of their human rights.The experts were concerned over "frequent reports of bribery and corruption, where individuals who are in a vulnerable position... were asked for money, often by officials, including police officials," group member Matthew Gillett said.
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Blanchard was sentenced to a decade in prison for her mother's 2015 murder.
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Alabama authorities say they have ruled out the woman's estranged spouse as a suspect in the "horrific" crime that claimed three lives.
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They've already shown they'll go to extremes to deny the president his court picks. Their new option would test how far they're willing to go.
NewsAFP NewsFormer gang leader charged with rapper Tupac Shakur's 1996 murder
A quarter of a century after Tupac Shakur was gunned down in a gang feud in Las Vegas, a man was charged Friday with his murder, a killing that came to symbolize the violence of gangsta rap as it surged into the mainstream.Shakur, the best-selling hip-hop artist behind hits such as "California Love," "Changes," and "Dear Mama," was already a huge star in the world of rap when he was gunned down in Las Vegas on September 7, 1996.
NewsAFP NewsInjuries in Scotland rail crash, Flying Scotsman involved
Several people were injured after two trains, one of which was the storied Flying Scotsman, collided at Aviemore railway station in the Highlands of Scotland on Friday, police said."We can confirm that steam locomotive Flying Scotsman has been involved in a shunting incident at Aviemore Station," the National Railway Museum said in a statement.
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NewsHuffPostAnti-Choice Attorneys Want Thousands Of Abortion Providers' And Donors' Personal Information
“It is objectively terrifying to think about what anti-abortion extremists want to do with this personal information," said one abortion fund leader.
PoliticsHuffPostFirst Defendant In Trump Georgia Election Case Pleads Guilty
Scott Hall pleaded guilty to five charges and was sentenced to five years of probation.
BusinessAFP NewsGlobal stocks mixed ahead of looming US government shutdown
Global stocks ended mixed Friday on signs of slowing inflation on both sides of the Atlantic, ahead of an impending government shutdown in the United States.On Wall Street, stocks reversed some earlier gains to close out a gloomy month of trading while the US government headed towards its first shutdown since 2019 over the weekend.
NewsAFP NewsUS Senate titan Dianne Feinstein dead at 90
Veteran Senator Dianne Feinstein, a titan of US political history who notched a string of legislative achievements during a trailblazing three-decade career in the Senate, has died."Senator Dianne Feinstein was a pioneering American.
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The 13-year-old said she had a panic attack and couldn’t speak or move during the incident last year.
NewsAFP NewsUS warns of large Serbian military build-up near Kosovo
The United States called on Belgrade to pull its forces back from the border with Kosovo on Friday after detecting what it called an unprecedented Serbian military build-up.He added: "We are calling on Serbia to withdraw those forces from the border."
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NewsAFP NewsTurkey's Kavala says life term confirmation 'does not value law'
Turkish civil society leader Osman Kavala on Friday said a decision by the top appeals court that upheld his life sentence disregarded law and human life. Turkey's top appeals court on Thursday upheld the life sentence for Kavala while overturning prison sentences for three other civil society leaders in the same case, who were subsequently released on probation.
PoliticsHuffPostAmerica's Early Childhood System Is About To Lose A Bunch Of Federal Money
Emergency child care funding expires this weekend, dealing a blow to providers — and families too — unless Congress acts soon.
NewsAFP NewsUS government teeters on brink of shutdown with no deal in view
The US government hurtled towards a shutdown Friday, with hardline Republicans creating disarray in their own party and President Joe Biden's administration issuing increasingly dire warnings of everything from impending border chaos to travel disruptions.On Friday, hardline House Republicans defeated a plan proposed by their own leader to keep funds flowing, with a bill to temporarily fund the government rejected in a 232-198 vote.
NewsAFP NewsKarabakh blast toll soars to 170 as exodus grows
The death toll from a Nagorno-Karabakh fuel depot blast soared to 170 on Friday as the exodus from the ethnic Armenian enclave following its fall to Azerbaijani forces continued unabated.The exodus has been accompanied by accounts of families burning their belongings so that they do not fall into Azerbaijani hands.
NewsAFP NewsMalta summit urges EU to stop migration at source
The leaders of nine Mediterranean and southern European countries called Friday for a "significant increase" in the EU's efforts to tackle the thorny issue of migration at its roots, in origin and transit countries."We recall the need for a significant increase in the EU's efforts on the external dimension front, with a renewed approach to effectively reduce primary movements and prevent departures," it said.
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The U.S. Capitol’s catering staff won’t get back pay even after a government shutdown ends.
PoliticsHuffPostRepublican Funding Bill Flops In House As Shutdown Nears
Its failure sends the House GOP back to the drawing board as the Senate continues to try to pass a bill to fund the government.
PoliticsHuffPostMark Milley Says U.S. Military Won't Obey A 'Wannabe Dictator'
At his retirement ceremony, the outgoing chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff issued a reminder that seemed aimed at election-denying ex-President Donald Trump.
PoliticsAFP NewsTop US military officer steps down with 'dictator' swipe at Trump
General Mark Milley stepped down Friday as the top US military officer with a parting swipe at his former boss Donald Trump, saying no soldier ever swore an oath to serve a "wannabe dictator.""And we don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator."
NewsAFP NewsEuropean countries smash September temperature records
Austria, France, Germany, Poland and Switzerland announced their hottest Septembers on record on Friday, in a year expected to be the warmest in human history as climate change accelerates.National weather bodies in the Alpine nations of Austria and Switzerland also recorded their hottest-ever average September temperatures, a day after a study revealed Swiss glaciers lost 10 percent of their volume in two years amid extreme warming.
BusinessReutersValkyrie Funds halts ethereum purchases for exchange-traded fund
(Reuters) -Financial services firm Valkyrie Funds LLC said on Friday it will halt buying of ethereum for the Valkyrie Bitcoin and Ether Strategy ETF and unwind any positions already acquired, a stumbling block in its bid to be the first to bring an exchange traded fund (ETF) tied to the cryptocurrency ethereum to the market. "The Fund will not purchase ether futures contracts until the effectiveness of an amendment to the Fund’s registration statement contemplating the addition of ether futures contracts to the principal investment strategy of the Fund," Valkyrie said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. "Until such time, the Fund will unwind any existing positions in ether futures contracts."
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