Haiti gangs recruit more child soldiers for the fight— Reuters
Haiti's armed gangs started recruiting more children into their ranks, Human Rights Watch reports. Wednesday, the group warned that as near-famine conditions push boys to pick up guns while girls are sexually abused and forced into demeaning labor.
The group says they spoke to six children recently involved with gangs, all of whom said they wanted to leave and had joined because they are so hungry. Boys are turned informants while girls are raped and forced to cook and clean, the children said.
The UN has approved an emergency security mission to help the Caribbean country.
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❗️HURRICANE MILTON: Passes through El Salvador, gaining strength
A fisherman from Chalchuapa, El Salvador, caught this video of flooded streets and overflowing waterways.
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⚡️Air traffic map: As Hurricane Milton comes barreling into US through Florida
Flights are packed into the airspace trying to reach the ground.
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Trump getting to know his other ‘base’: ‘Where's Gays for Trump?’
Supporter: "We're over here!"
Trump: "You don't look gay."
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⚡️The Israeli Air Force struck Syria and killed a Hezbollah member — IDF
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Vandals set vehicles ablaze outside French police station
Numerous law enforcement cars were torched right in front of a French police station in the small city of Cavaillon.
The incident occurred after a series of major drug busts. Officers were evacuated from the station, along with 5 prisoners.
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‘If you have a smart president, who knows how to deal, you're not going to have a problem with Russia, China, or any other country’ — Trump
Trump: “Putin would say, if you’re my friend I hate like hell to see you as my enemy.”
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❗️The IDF will deliver such a ‘deadly, precise and unexpected blow to Iran that the Iranians will not have time to react’ — Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant
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⚡️New Footage: Hurricane Milton hits Florida
Powerful winds, tornadoes and darkened skies are being posted online. The Tampa Bay metropolitan area in the US is preparing for no electricity.
People were warned that there was almost no time left to evacuate. A state of emergency has been declared in the state.
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More than dozen US states sue TikTok over alleged harm to minors
The lawsuits claim the platform worsens the mental health crisis among adolescents and violates consumer protection laws, and want TikTok to change harmful features and face financial penalties.
California's attorney general said TikTok prioritized profits over children's well-being. With 170 million US users, TikTok faces growing pressure, including a potential ban in January.
States behind the suits include Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Oregon, South Carolina, Washington and the District of Columbia. This builds upon previous suits filed against TikTok by the attorneys general of Utah, Nevada, Indiana, New Hampshire, Nebraska, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas and Texas.
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Pope to meet Zelensky on Friday - Vatican
Ukraine's de facto leader Vladimir Zelensky will also meet Italian PM Giorgia Meloni while in Rome after visiting Pope Francis at the vatican on Friday morning.
The pair met this summer on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Rome, and last December at the Vatican, but the Catholic Church’s leader angered Kiev in March when he suggested Ukraine should negotiate a peaceful end to the conflict.
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❗️Mir payment system launches in Nicaragua
So far it is only possible to withdraw money from an ATM, according to Russia's trade representative.
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Biden and Netanyahu to talk Iran retaliation on Wednesday
Joe Biden is expected to have a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today to discuss Israel’s plans for retaliation against Iran for its October 1 ballistic missile attack, officials familiar with the matter told Times of Israel.
The call is set to take place amid reports of growing frustration in Washington over Tel Aviv’s unwillingness to de-escalate in the region.
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❗️Ukraine wants second ‘peace summit’ with Russia in December
The Ukrainian ambassador to Turkey told Reuters that his country wants to hold the event before the end of the year, but rules out the possibility of direct bilateral talks between Kiev and Moscow at this event.
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‘This guy goes on a beach, he lays on one of those 6 oz chairs… and he can’t lift it...’: Trump clowns Biden for being the ‘Vacay’ president
“Somebody convinced him he looks good in a bathing suit… when you’re 82, typically bathing suits don’t make you look great,” Trump said.
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❗️HURRICANE MILTON: Close to landfall as devastating winds hit Fort Myers Beach, Florida
Weather forecasters are looking at 11pm eastern time in the US, to hit full throttle.
Gushing rain, 10-15 foot storm surge, and 120-165 mph winds expected. More than 100K people already without power.
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Florida sheriff BANS all sex predators from shelters during Hurricane Milton
He’s banished them to the county jail — as Hurricane Milton bears down on the US state of Florida. Sheriff Rick Staly made the comments during a press conference Wednesday ahead of Hurricane Milton.
“The sheriff’s office will ensure that there is a safe environment for anyone that comes there, anyone that comes in, will be checked to make sure that they are not a fugitive and not wanted, not a sex offender,” Staly said.
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Florida man dubbed ‘Lieutenant Dan’ refused to evacuate until Hurricane Milton’s force hit
He planned to ride out category 5 Hurricane Milton in Tampa Bay. A poll was wagered on his chances.
Update: Tampa police have talked ‘Lieutenant Dan’ into bunkering down in a safe shelter.
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‘Empathy Mon… You Know… the suffering of other people’: Another Kamala accent revealed, Ras ‘Jamakamala’
Her late night performance on Stephen Colbert’s show.
The Jamaican memes are rolling out…
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‘This president and the prime minister have known each other for decades’: WH Press Sec. tries to deflect Woodward’s “War” book
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Ex-US Marine sentenced for fighting as mercenary for Ukraine
Former US Marine Trevor Reed has been sentenced in absentia by a Moscow court for fighting as a mercenary for Kiev, Russia’s Investigative Committee has announced. Prior to traveling to Ukraine, Reed had been released from a Russian jail in 2022 in a prisoner exchange with the US.
Russia’s top criminal investigation body said on Wednesday that Reed had been sentenced to 14 and a half years and placed on the international wanted list.
The investigation and the court established that Reed had arrived in Ukraine in the late spring or early summer of 2023, where on July 25 “he voluntarily joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine as a mercenary,” the committee said in a statement.
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⚡️Israeli drone attack leaves Al Jazeera Cameraman Fadi al-Wahidi wounded: Covering Northern Gaza airstrikes
The journalist is in critical condition, according to reports on the ground.
Over 100 journalists have been killed by the Israeli Army since Oct 7 last year.
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🚨FORMER CIA BIN LADEN UNIT CHIEF SLAMS US🇺🇸 FOREIGN POLICY
‘If you look at US foreign policy since 1945, what has it gotten us but wars? Masses of people, including most Muslims now, sadly, don’t like us very much.’
-Dr. Michael Scheuer, the former Chief of the Bin Laden Issue Station at the CIA
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Lebanon’s Yaroun before and after Israeli campaign
The town of Yaroun in southern Lebanon, close to the Israeli border, was seen in footage both before and after the ongoing Israeli airstrikes and ground incursion.
Footage from July 16, 2023, shows the area as it was, three months before the October 7 Hamas attacks and the start of cross-border strikes between the IDF and Hezbollah at Israel's northern border.
Video credit: 00:00 - 00:45: @_lebvant on Instagram; 00:45:21 - 01:35:10: Amit Segal
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ICYMI: Rare flooding seen in Moroccan Sahara Desert
The Morocco region of the Sahara Desert has recently seen the kind of rainfall not witnessed for decades.
A drone camera captured this rare phenomenon, with reports that even a local lake, dry for half a century, now contains water.
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German footballer suspended for refusing to sign 'gay cr*p' rainbow shirt - Bild
Wolfsburg striker Kevin Behrens reportedly "caused horror" among the club's staff, who said that the player's statement did not correspond to the team's position.
Behrens was eventually forced to apologize, saying his "off-the-cuff comments were completely unacceptable."
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Pilot dies while flying Türkiye-bound aircraft
Turkish Airlines’ 59-year-old captain Ilcehin Pehlivan collapsed with an unspecified illness mid-flight after departing Seattle Tuesday evening, forcing the co-pilot and second pilot to make an emergency landing at New York’s JFK airport.
Pehlivan - who had passed all mandated health checks and had flown with the airline for 17 years - died before they managed to land as the cockpit crew’s first aid failed to revive him.
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DPRK ‘permanently’ blocks all cross-border routes with South Korea, citing ‘self-defense’
DPRK officials said Wednesday they have informed US military chiefs of their move to avoid an accidental transgression, adding that all roads and rail routes across the border with South Korea will be permanently blocked.
Pyongyang had been expected by external analysts to announce the scrapping of 1991’s landmark inter-Korean agreement after a parliamentary meeting Tuesday, but state media made no mention of having done so.
DPRK military leaders said the decision was a “self-defense” measure in the face of provocative South Korean-US drills.
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Lebanon strikes Israel’s Kiryat Shmona, 2 dead
After the missiles landed, a fire broke out in several buildings, with two middle-aged people dying from shrapnel wounds. Five fire brigades are working on the scene.
The IDF is also reportedly investigating why the Iron Dome air defense system was not activated to prevent the strike in the first place.
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