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The United States announced on Wednesday criminal charges against former Cuban leader Raul Castro over his alleged role in the 1996 downing of two civilian aircraft operated by the Miami-based exile group Brothers to the Rescue, an incident that killed four people.
The indictment, unsealed by Acting US Attorney Todd Blanche in Miami, includes charges of conspiracy to kill US nationals, destruction of an aircraft and four individual counts of murder against Castro and five other co-defendants….

An Indian family of four was arrested by ICE and taken to a family prison. (Left: Guri; right: Manpreet and her mother) The Indian family of four – parents and two kids — completes almost 90 days at Dilley detention center in Texas, with their future looking bleak and their health deteriorating. They were arrested in February during a routine check-in appointment and were put in the controversial center which reopened after the Donald Trump administration resumed family detentions last year. YouTuber Ms Rachel, who had been advocating for shutting the ICE detention centre, visited Dilley and met the Indian family.”I never thought i'd be advocating to get families out of prison. It was an honor to meet with this hardworking, kind family. Please free them. Guri is not getting proper care for bleeding when he goes to the bathroom which is dangerous medical neglect,” Ms Rachel wrote.Guri is the 12-year-old boy of the family who has been experiencing blood in his stools. This started ..

US issues travel alert amid the outbreak of Ebola in DRC and Uganda. The US Department of State issued a level 4 alert for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), South Sudan, or Uganda, urging Americans not to travel to either of these countries for any reason, considering the Ebola outbreak. For Rwanda, the department issued a level 3 alert asking Americans to reconsider traveling. The travel alerts are in response to the CDC and WHO's declaration on recent Ebola outbreak.”Medical services in South Sudan are extremely limited. Adequate medical treatment, as well as access to routine an emergency procedures, is often unavailable, and even minor health issues could require medical evacuation. All medical services, including medical evacuation, are at your expense. If you purchase additional medical insurance, be sure to keep records of all medical services paid for and provided,” the US Department wrote in the advisory for South Sudan.Ebola is a rare, severe and often fatal he..

A top commander of US forces in the Middle East avoided taking responsibility on Tuesday for an attack on a school in Iran that left 155 people dead on day one of the war, insisting a “complex” probe continues.
Admiral Brad Cooper, the commander of US Central Command (CENTCOM), told a congressional oversight panel that “the school itself is located on an active IRGC cruise missile base”, making the investigation “more complex than the average strike”. IRGC stands for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary…

AdvertisementAnimalsWorldEuropeNorway reports Europe’s first case of bird flu in a polar bearThe H5N5 variant was also found in a walrus found about 1,000km from the North Pole, and is thought to be the likely cause of death
1-MIN READ1-MIN ListenAgence France-PressePublished: 1:40am, 20 May 2026Norwegian authorities on Tuesday announced that bird flu has been documented in a polar bear for the first time in Europe, in the Svalbard region in the Arctic.
The H5N5 variant of the virus was detected in samples taken from a male bear about one year old and a walrus found dead in mid-May on the icy archipelago, around 1,000km (600 miles) from the North Pole, the Norwegian Veterinary Institute said.
“The results are part of a trend in which highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses are increasingly being detected in mammals in Europe,” noted Ragnhild Tonnessen, bird flu coordinator at the Veterinary Institute, quoted in a press release.
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