Technology
Facebook parent Meta closes team that monitors downsides to its products
The move comes at a rocky time for the company, both financially and in the public eye.
Crime
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum faces tragic start after soldiers open fire at truck transporting migrants
The soldiers mistook the migrant transportation trucks for cartel vehicles and opened fire at 33 migrants of various nationalities, leaving six fatalities and at least 10 others wounded
Human Rights
Myanmar's military dictators hang four political prisoners
The executions were announced by state-controlled news agency Global Light of Myanmar, who said the men had commit “brutal and inhuman terror acts” and executed in accordance to the country’s Counter-Terrorism Law and Penal Code
Crime
VIDEO: El Salvador sends 2,000 more suspected gang members to prison
“They are never going to return to the communities, the neighborhoods, the barrios, the cities of our beloved El Salvador,” said Gustavo Villatoro, El Salvador’s minister for justice and peace
Human Rights
ALERT: Cuban regime seeks long prison sentences for artists Maykel Osorbo and Luis Manuel Otero
"From prison or wherever, Maykel and Luis are an inspiration and a symbol for Cubans. Down with the dictatorship! Long live Cuba Libre!" said activist Anamely Ramos
Technology
British Home Secretary orders extradition of Julian Assange to the United States
The WikiLeaks founder's legal team has relentlessly fought to keep Assange from being extradited to the U.S.
Human Rights
Ukrainians prisoners recount strip searches, beatings at Russian 'filtration' camps
Ukrainian refugees too far east to flee toward Europe had to seek refuge in Russia, where they have been processed through “filtration camps” and screened for their loyalties and any military ties
Human Rights
Russian state media journalist arrested after protesting war on live TV
During a live broadcast on Monday, Channel One employee Marina Ovsyannikova burst into the frame holding a sign that read “NO WAR. Stop the war. Don’t believe propaganda. They are lying to you here”
Politics
Nicaragua’s ruling family reaches out to U.S. to ease sanctions
Laureano’s move comes as several members of the Central American country’s ruling family face U.S. sanctions
Technology
U.S. files lawsuit to halt further exploration of Titanic, says shipwreck now a 'grave site'
RMS Titanic Incorporated, a Georgia-based company that bought salvage rights to the Titanic shipwreck wants to send an unmanned vehicle and breach its hull to take photos of entire once great cruise