A man was executed in Texas, United States, on Tuesday after being sentenced to death for the murder of an elderly woman in 2000. “Jedidiah Murphy, a 48-year-old American, received a lethal injection in a Huntsville prison and was pronounced dead,” the Texas Department of Justice reported. This year, already …
Read More »Cardiologist suspected of having drugged numerous women to rape them
A 35-year-old cardiologist is targeted by 51 different charges in Denver (Colorado), suspected of having drugged then sexually assaulted or raped numerous women met on dating applications, reports ABC News. At a court hearing on Friday October 6, he pleaded not guilty. The 30-year-old was arrested last March, targeted by …
Read More »US president Joe Biden said Donald Trump is a threat to democracy
Joe Biden once again launched a dark and solemn warning this Thursday on the fate of American democracy, this time by attacking Donald Trump very directly, as the campaign for the 2024 presidential has just taken on a new dimension. He said the ideology of his Republican opponent and his …
Read More »US State Department victim of a cyberattack, 60,000 emails hacked
Some 60,000 emails linked to American diplomacy were hacked during a cyberattack suspected of being of Chinese origin, the State Department’s spokesperson said on Thursday. “Approximately 60,000 unclassified emails were exfiltrated during this breach,” said Matthew Miller when asked about this during a press briefing. He reiterated that none of …
Read More »Kenya confident its police will end Haiti gang war
Kenya says it is confident the deployment of hundreds of its police to Haiti by January will end gang warfare there. Last year Haiti’s government appealed for help because of the spiralling gang violence. Gangs have largely overpowered the police and now control more than three-quarters of the capital. Initially …
Read More »Customer sues McDonald’s after burning herself with coffee
An American woman filed a complaint against McDonald’s last week after suffering “serious burns” in a San Francisco restaurant, CNN reported this Thursday. She said she spilled a cup of coffee on herself with the lid loose. According to the prosecution, the woman suffered “physical pain, emotional distress and other …
Read More »US judge suspended over doubts about her fitness
The oldest American federal judge, Pauline Newman, 96, was suspended from her duties on Wednesday due to doubts about the deterioration of her mental capacities, a symbolic affair in a country sometimes presented as a gerontocracy because of the age of its leaders. Appointed in 1984 by then-President Ronald Reagan, …
Read More »At least 25 people including children killed in car crash
At least 25 people, including two children, died in a bus accident that plunged into a ravine in the Andean region of Huancavelica, in southern Peru, the authorities announced in an upwardly revised assessment Monday evening. An initial report from the police reported 20 dead and 35 injured, then a …
Read More »Canadian company officially opens gold mine in Ivory Coast
Canada’s Roxgold on Friday opened its gold mine in the north-western region of Ivory Coast, aiming to produce about 130,000 ounces of gold per year, Reuters reported, citing the company. “We have more than 10 years of mining production ahead of us at Seguela and our ambition is to continue …
Read More »Ten soldiers suspended for threatening villagers with their weapons
Ten soldiers suspected of having threatened villagers with their weapons in a rural area of northern Colombia, have been suspended, local media reported, citing official source. The colombian government described the incident as “extremely serious”. “As soon as it became aware of the facts, the army command (…) immediately took …
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