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A 24-year-old American teacher has been indicted on four counts after being heard in a video, organizing fights between her students. The scene, filmed discreetly under a school desk, is surreal. It shows a substitute teacher, officiating in an American college, explain to her students the rules to follow for …

A US diplomatic convoy to Sudan came under fire on Monday, but no one was injured, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday. According to the diplomat who spoke separately with the two rival generals struggling for power, the convoy was attacked but no one was injured. “I …

American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh claimed on his website that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his entourage embezzled at least $400 million in funds transferred to kyiv for the purchase of fuel. “The President of Ukraine and many of his inner circle skimmed millions of US dollars from diesel fuel …

US President Joe Biden officially ended the national state of emergency linked to Covid-19 on Monday, in place for three years in the country which has officially paid the highest price for the pandemic, with more than one million dead. The White House said in a statement that the president …

Ex-Twitter executives filed a collective lawsuit on Monday against the platform, demanding that it reimburse them for legal expenses incurred in connection with shareholder lawsuits and authorities’ investigations into their former company. Parag Agrawal, the social network’s former boss, Vijaya Gadde, the former legal director and Ned Segal, the former …

Authorities in the United States are trying to assess the risks of leaking classified documents, which include the Russian invasion of Ukraine, to its national security, the Pentagon said on Sunday. This leak of secret documents, revealed last week by the New York Times, concerns in particular assessments and reports …

More than 150 members of the Catholic clergy are accused of “horrible and repeated” pedophile acts on at least 600 children, from 1940 to 2002 in Maryland, US justice revealed on Wednesday, denouncing the “complicity” of the Church. These archdiocesan priests and staff “carried out repeated horrific acts on the …

A Brazilian woman spent ten hours in a grave before her cries for help enabled workers at the Visconde do Rio Branco cemetery, about 100 kilometers north of Rio de Janeiro, to save her. The 36-year-old woman told police that she was attacked at her home and beaten up by …

Forty-six people are missing and seven others died in southern Ecuador, in a landslide caused by heavy rains overnight from Sunday to Monday, according to an official report. Several dozen houses were buried in the town of Alausi about 300 kilometers south of Quito, in an Andean area hit last …

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said anti-LGBT draft legislation passed by Uganda’s parliament on Tuesday undermines fundamental human rights and urged the government to reconsider implementing it, the BBC reported. The hastily passed bill says anyone identifying as LGBT could face a long prison sentence. Individuals belonging to …