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US President Joe Biden, who plans to run for a second term, will meet wealthy Democratic Party supporters at two fundraising events next week. The octogenarian leader will be in New York next Tuesday, then in Philadelphia on Friday, meeting wealthy supporters to fill his party’s coffers. Joe Biden has …

Six police officers died in the north of Haiti during the attack on a police station by gang members, authorities said, a new act of violence at the origin of demonstrations this Thursday in Port-au-Prince . “Bandits attacked three times a police sub-station in Liancourt, a locality in the north …

A Chinese engineer, Ji Chaoqun, was sentenced on Wednesday to eight years in prison in the United States for having provided Beijing with information on the profiles of American experts with the aim of recruiting them. He was arrested in September 2018 for having provided services with information on the …

A dog stepped on a loaded rifle, fatally shooting a passenger in his owner’s car during a hunting trip in Geuda Springs, Kan, sheriff’s deputies said. The deceased, aged 30, was shot in the back while sitting in front of a pickup truck, the Sumner County Sheriff’s Office said in …

Former American boxing champion Mike Tyson is accused by a woman, who filed a civil complaint, of having raped her in a limousine in the early 1990s near New York, a court document indicates. The alleged victim, who insisted on remaining anonymous in the proceedings because she fears being “attacked …

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday approved emergency aid of $105 million for Haiti, which is plunged into a humanitarian crisis aggravated by inflation. The funds should enable the Caribbean country to “support those most affected by rising food prices through food distributions and payments to the most vulnerable …

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov denounced the attitude of Volodymyr Zelensky’s allies including the United States and the West, during his trip in South Africa on Monday. “Russia does not refuse negotiations with Ukraine,” said Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, on Monday during a trip to Pretoria, South Africa. Almost …

Authorities in the United States have designated the Russian paramilitary group Wagner as an international criminal organization. The White House made the announcement on Friday, denouncing the group’s activities in Ukraine. “Wagner is a criminal organization that commits vast atrocities and human rights abuses,” White House National Security Council spokesman …

A 10-year-old in Mexico shot and killed another 11-year-old because he beat him at video games, several Mexican media reported Wednesday. The attacker shot the victim with a pistol that he picked up at the family home in a miserable area of the state of Veracruz (southeast). The two children …

A group of scientists discovered a new species of lizard in a nature reserve in Cusco, in southeastern Peru, the national agency in charge of protected natural areas said on Monday. “Otishi National Park reveals a new species of lizard to science,” the institution said in a statement. This lizard …