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Haiti sees surge of deaths amid instability crisis: UN report
A soaring wave of gang violence in Haiti left 1,660 people dead and some 850 injured in the first three months of 2024, a UN report said Friday.The deaths in early 2024 also include some 141 people killed by "self-defense" groups, who in the past year have begun taking the law into their own hands as the country's security forces find themselves overwhelmed and outgunned by the gangs.
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Second Ecuadoran mayor killed ahead of anti-crime referendum: police
The mayor of a mining town in violence-riddled Ecuador was shot dead Friday, the second such killing in days ahead of a weekend referendum on tougher measures against organized crime, police said.Two days before his killing, the mayor of Camilo Ponce Enriquez in the southern province of Azuay, Jose Sanchez, was shot dead.
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X owner Musk says opposed to US ban of competitor TikTok
Elon Musk on Friday came out against banning TikTok in the United States, even if it would mean less competition for his social media platform X, formerly Twitter, as the initiative sees fresh bipartisan momentum in Congress."TikTok should not be banned in the USA, even though such a ban may benefit the X platform," Musk said in a post on the social network he acquired in 2022.
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Trump jury set for opening arguments, man self-immolates outside
Donald Trump's unprecedented criminal trial is set for opening arguments next week after final jury selection ended Friday in proceedings overshadowed by a man setting himself on fire outside the Manhattan courthouse.Judge Juan Merchan has said that opening arguments in Trump's trial would start Monday if jury selection was finished.
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IMF calls on EU to deepen single market integration to boost growth
Deeper integration of the European Union's internal market could prove crucial for boosting lackluster economic growth and productivity levels in the 27-member trading bloc, a senior IMF official told AFP Friday. Beyond deepening regional integration, the IMF report suggested other ways to boost flagging productivity levels, including by increasing digitalization and enacting structural reforms.
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Mideast enters new era with Israel strikes on Iran
After years of high-level US pressure on its ally to show restraint, Israel's purported attack on Iran takes the region and Western-led diplomacy into uncharted territory.Iran and Israel have long waged a shadow war, marked by assassinations of Tehran's nuclear scientists and attacks on Israel by the clerical state's allies in the Arab world such as Lebanon's Hezbollah, but the United States has put a top priority on preventing a wide-scale war.
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US fines Thailand-based firm $20 mn for Iran sanctions violations
The United States fined a Thailand-based firm $20 million on Friday for more than 450 possible Iran sanctions violations -- a day after Washington slapped fresh sanctions on Iran following last weekend's attack on Israel.The announcement comes a day after the United States and Britain announced widespread sanctions against Iran's military drone program in response to Tehran's large-scale attack against Israel over the weekend, which involved more than 300 drones and missiles.
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