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India: devastating floods
Flooding and landslides caused by relentless rains have devastated northeastern India, with at least 44 people confirmed dead. Assam state has seen twelve deaths from flooding and five from landslides, with nearly 1,500 villages and over…
USA: Musk calls Trump’s tax bill an abomination
Elon Musk has sharply criticised Donald Trump’s multi-trillion-dollar tax and spending bill, calling it a ‘disgusting abomination’ and condemning the Republicans who supported it. Passed by the House in May, the bill includes expansive tax cuts,…
El Salvador: three colonels convicted for 1982 murder of Dutch journalists
Three retired colonels have been sentenced to fifteen years in prison for orchestrating the 1982 killings of four Dutch journalists during El Salvador’s civil war. They are former defence minister Jose Guillermo Garcia (91), Francisco Moran…
Colombia: an alternative approach to fighting cocaine production
Colombia is pursuing a peaceful alternative to its enduring drug crisis by offering payments to farmers who agree to uproot coca (the plant used to make cocaine) and replace it with legal crops like cocoa and…
