Mexico on Friday arrested a former attorney general who led a controversial investigation into the disappearance of 43 students in 2014 -- one of the country's worst human rights tragedies.. Murillo Karam, a former heavyweight of the once-dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), was arrested for the crimes of forced disappearance, torture and perverting justice, the attorney general's office said.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Friday that any soldiers and officials involved in the disappearance of 43 students in 2014 must face justice to prevent the atrocity happening again.. On Thursday the truth commission created by Lopez Obrador branded the disappearance of the teaching students a "state crime" involving agents of various institutions.
Here are the latest developments in the war in Ukraine: - Putin, Macron urge inspection of nuclear site - Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron call for independent inspections at the Moscow-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, the Kremlin says. . The French presidency specifies that Putin has dropped his demand that the IAEA team travel to the site via Russia, saying it could arrive via Ukraine "in respect of Ukrainian sovereignty".
Canada on Friday nominated Michelle O'Bonsawin as the first Indigenous person to serve on its Supreme Court, a historic first for a country seeking to make amends for abuses against native peoples.. O'Bonsawin's nomination is the second in a row to make history at the Supreme Court.
Prominent literary figures including Paul Auster and Gay Talese gathered in Manhattan on Friday for a reading of Salman Rushdie's works, in solidarity with the author seriously injured in a stabbing attack.. Indian author Kiran Desai read a passage from Rushdie's "Quichotte."
The US Defense Department on Friday announced a new $775 million package of defense equipment and ammunition for Ukraine, including various types of missiles, artillery and mine-clearing systems.. The official said the addition of mine clearing equipment, which includes 40 mine-resistant vehicles with rollers that can safely explode mines, is to help the Ukrainians with more offensive actions.
Thousands of Cubans turned out on Friday to bid a final farewell to 14 firefighters killed while battling a blaze at a fuel depot this month. . The 14 were honored Friday on the second of two days of national mourning announced by President Miguel Diaz-Canel, who offered his condolences via Twitter Thursday to loved ones of "these brave Cubans."
At least 19 civilians were killed during two separate incidents in the latest flare-up of violence along Syria's northern border with Turkey, a war monitor said on Friday.. Violence between Turkey and Syria's Kurds escalated this week with a deadly Turkish strike killing 17 regime and Kurdish fighters in retaliation for Kurdish fire inside Turkey.
Nicaraguan police on Friday forcefully removed Catholic bishop and government critic Rolando Alvarez from his official residence after two weeks under siege, said Church and rights groups who had no news on his whereabouts.. "His whereabouts are still unknown," added the tweet with the tags "#SOS" and "#URGENT." Vilma Nunez of the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh) told AFP that police "removed him with violence and it is not known where they took him."
The number of people at risk of starvation in the drought-ravaged Horn of Africa has increased to 22 million, the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) said Friday.. WFP says by September, at least 22 million people could face starvation.
