As she waited in a migrant processing center in Texas this weekend, Maria Cabarcas says she felt a sudden sense of "desperation," and found herself crying for no reason.. Cabarcas first learned of her son's death when police returned her phone to her at the detention center near Eagle Pass, some six hours by bus from Brownsville, where she and her daughters were being processed.
AFP's Ukraine video coordinator Arman Soldin was killed on Tuesday by rocket fire near Chasiv Yar in eastern Ukraine, AFP journalists who witnessed the incident said.. The AFP team came under fire by Grad rockets while they were with a group of Ukrainian soldiers.
A Spanish judge on Tuesday denied Brazil defender Dani Alves's second bail request while the footballer awaits trial for alleged rape.. Alves's legal team proposed revoking his two passports, Brazilian and Spanish, to reassure the judge he could be granted bail this time -- but the request was rejected. gr/mcd/bm/lcm/imm
Like Arman Soldin, a video reporter killed in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, several other AFP journalists and staff have died on mission or in attacks since the news agency's creation in 1944.. - May 2023 - UKRAINE: Arman Soldin, AFP video coordinator in Ukraine.
A US jury found Donald Trump liable Tuesday for sexually abusing and defaming an American former magazine columnist and ordered the ex-president to pay her $5 million in damages.. The former columnist for Elle magazine also claimed that Trump defamed her when he called her "a complete con job" after she went public with the allegation in 2019.
Anyone who wanted to get the measure of Arman Soldin needed only to look at his recent footage for AFP from the besieged Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.. - Refugee - Arman Soldin was born in Sarajevo, and was one of the first Bosnians evacuated to France in early 1992.
The US Justice Department said Tuesday that it had disabled a "sophisticated" malware network used by Russia's FSB intelligence agency for two decades to spy in 50 countries including a NATO ally.. At least in one case Snake was placed on the systems of an unnamed NATO country, allowing Russian intelligence to access and exfiltrate sensitive international relations documents and diplomatic communications, CISA said.
Supporters of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Germany have been trying to intimidate voters ahead of the country's crunch election, politicians and voters said on Tuesday.. Around one in two voters in Germany went to the ballot during the last elections in 2018, and support then for Erdogan was stronger in Europe's biggest economy than in Turkey itself.
Rita Lee, a Brazilian rock-and-roll icon who sang with legendary group Os Mutantes and went on to a trailblazing solo career as one of Latin America's first female rockers, has died at age 75, her family said Tuesday.. Lee, who released more than 30 albums across her five-decade career, won the Latin Grammy for best Brazilian rock album in 2001, with her record "3001."
Brazilian journalist, activist and former congressman David Miranda, the husband of US blogger Glenn Greenwald and his collaborator on the story of American whistleblower Edward Snowden's intelligence leaks, died Tuesday after a long illness.. Miranda, who grew up in the Rio de Janeiro favela of Jacarezinho, worked with Greenwald on publishing Snowden's intelligence leaks in 2013, which blew the lid on vast surveillance programs by the US National Security Agency (NSA).
