37 h. ago Organization of American States under pressure from the US to help quell gang violence in Haiti

The Organization of American States is coming under pressure to help quash gang violence in Haiti as a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenyan police in the troubled Caribbean country struggles with a lack of funds and personnel

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8 d. ago Chances to investigate criminal smuggling gangs missed, says watchdog

A task force to tackle people-smuggling gangs operating in the UK has been set up in response to the report.

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2 w. ago ‘A safe haven from racial violence’: Sinners shows the importance of juke joints

Ryan Coogler’s smash hit horror focuses on the opening of a juke joint, a one-time mainstay in Black southern cultureIn Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, the Smokestack twins – a gangster pair played by Michael B Jordan – return to their Mississippi Delta home town to open a juke joint and make a fast buck, only to wind up hunkered inside when danger literally comes knocking. But the juke joint is more than a safe space from vampires; for Black people during segregation, it was an escape from the horrors of the so-called “separate-but-equal” US economy. “The juke joint represents, as the film suggests, this multifaceted connection to the foundation of Black experience,” says William Ferris, a University of North Carolina history professor who has made documenting blues music and southern culture his life’s work. “It’s a safe haven from racial violence.”During the late 19th and early 20th century the juke joint was a southern social institution, the place to drink and unwind over live music. T...

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2 w. ago UK sent Israel thousands of military items despite export ban, study finds

Trade data analysis shows British firms have exported items including munitions since suspension of key licencesUK firms have exported thousands of military items including munitions to Israel despite the government suspending key arms export licences to the country in September, new analysis of trade data shows. The research also raises questions over whether the UK continued to sell F-35 parts directly to Israel in breach of an undertaking only to sell them to the US manufacturers Lockheed Martin as a way of ensuring the fighter jet’s global supply chain was not disrupted, something the government said was essential for national security and Nato. The findings have led the former Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell to call for a full investigation, adding it was a resigning matter if the foreign secretary, David Lammy, was shown to have misled parliament in breach of the ministerial code when he told MPs in September that much of what the UK sends to Israel was “defensive in n...

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2 w. ago Who let the dogs in? Smugglers and criminal breeders are feared to be behind up to four in five of all puppy sales in UK

Three-quarters of the 950,000 puppies that find homes in the UK every year - around 700,000 - come from unknown sources, a charity has found.

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2 w. ago Gang of 14 youths arrested for manslaughter after missing boy dies in fire

The body of missing 14-year-old Layton Carr was found inside an industrial park building after it was on fire.

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3 w. ago Chancellor Rachel Reeves under investigation by standards watchdog over free National Theatre tickets

Rachel Reeves and three of her family members were given tickets to a show, believed to have been Ballet Shoes, on December 27 last year

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