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Rebellion: 20 people injured in Rikers Island fire, FDNY says 

At the time, a group of state legislators had arrived at Riker’s Island on a surprise visit, which aimed to push back against New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposed bail reforms

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Man kills four children, injures five with ax at pre-school in Brazil

The victims were aged between 3 and 7, including three boys and one girl, according to officials. One of the victims that survived remains in critical condition at the hospital

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$100K worth of cocaine packages wash up on Florida beaches

Authorities said the cocaine appeared on three different beaches in Walton County on Monday and Tuesday

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FBI mistakenly enter Boston hotel room, interrogate man during training exercise

FBI-Boston division agents were helping Department of Defense officials carry out a training exercise “to simulate a situation their personnel might encounter in a deployed environment”

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Kidnappings in Haiti increase threefold in 2023, says human rights group

"Gangs use extreme violence (all forms of torture) to force parents and families to pay large sums of U.S. money that they do not have," it said, citing severe burns, gang rapes, and hangings a consequence of not paying

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U.S. relatives of migrants who died in Mexican facility fire at an immigration station demand answers

"The Mexican authorities are not responding," said Guatemalan Alba González, first cousin of Roberto González Hernández, one of the 40 migrants who died on Monday, March 27 in Mexico

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Honduras clones El Salvador, deploys military to fight gangs

The Honduran government deployed hundreds of soldiers to combat criminal gangs under the state of emergency imposed in several cities in the country

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Mexico urges China to help fight fentanyl production and smuggling 

The letter asks Xi to provide Mexico with information about when and where fentanyl was being shipped from China to Mexico, as well as how much of the drug was being transported and by whom

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Five children rescued from trafficking after U.S. most wanted couple captured by Mexican police

Five of the children, who were missing and in danger, were rescued during the arrest and taken into protective custody. The case has been described as the worst case of child abuse some investigators have ever seen

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California grandmother accused of orchestrating fentanyl shipments to police organization address

The suspect, Joanne Marian Segovia, is also the former executive director of the San Jose Police Officers Association