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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has stated that Mexico is a safer country than the United States, weeks after the high-profile kidnapping of four Americans drew global attention to the country’s security crisis. “Mexico is safer than the United States. There is no issue with traveling safely through Mexico. That’s something the US citizens also know, just like our fellow Mexicans that live in the US,” he said during his daily morning press briefing. The kidnapped Americans were traveling in the Mexican border city of Matamoros in early March when they came under attack by gunmen believed to be linked to the Gulf cartel. Two of the Americans and a Mexican bystander died during the attack. On Friday, the Texas Department of Public Safety advised that residents avoid travel to Mexico during spring break, citing the risk of cartel violence.   Asked by a local reporter about security in Mexico on Monday, March 13, López Obrador cited his country’s popularity ...

Ukraine has accused two Russian soldiers of sexually assaulting a four-year-old girl and gang raping her mother at gunpoint in front of her father, in new allegations of abuse carried out during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. According to a report by Reuters, Ukrainian prosecution files revealed a spree of sex crimes Russian soldiers of the 15th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade committed in four homes of Brovary district near the capital Kyiv in March 2022.   During Moscow's failed push to capture Kyiv after its Feb. 24 invasion, soldiers entered Brovary a few days later, looting and using sexual violence as a deliberate tactic to terrorise the population, the Ukrainian prosecutors said. "They singled out the women beforehand, coordinated their actions and their roles," said the prosecutors, whose 2022 documents were based on interviews with witnesses and survivors. Most of the alleged atrocities took place on March 13, when soldiers "in a state of al...

The South African Police Service (SAPS) has launched a manhunt for armed men who assisted six Zimbabwean prisoners awaiting trial to escape from custody in Makhado.   Local publications reported that on Monday, 13 March 2022, a group of heavily armed suspects attacked police officers along the Vivo road next to the first Sxhoemansdal turnoff outside Louis Trichardt. The suspects fired gunshots at the cops guarding the six detainees who were about to go on trial.   After subduing the cops, the armed men drove off with the six prisoners in a grey Mercedes Benz and a white Toyota Bakkie.   Limpopo police spokesperson Brigadier Motlafela Mojapelo confirmed the incident and revealed the identity of the prisoners who fled. He said;     “The following prisoners managed to escape during the attack: Forward Shumba, aged 26; Shingirai Nyandome, aged 32; Brilliant Sibanda, aged 26; Erick Sithole, aged 35; Moses Zambara, aged 32 and Alex Nkomo, aged 35. "All ...

A 3-year-old girl in Texas shot and killed her 4-year-old sister with an “unsecured” weapon on Sunday, March 12. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said the two toddlers were playing unsupervised while five adults gathered with family and friends in a Houston apartment.   “At some point, it appears that one parent thought the other parent was watching the other children when in fact the two toddlers were left basically unsupervised inside the bedroom,” the sheriff said.   In the bedroom, the children found a loaded semi-automatic pistol.   “Family members heard a single gunshot. They ran into the room and found the small toddler, four years old, on the floor unresponsive,” Sheriff Gonzalez said. Gonzalez said the adults were able to quickly secure the weapon after the gunshot and call 911, but the injured child was still pronounced dead at the scene. Neither child has been identified yet.  Any charges against the adults in the house have not yet been anno...

  A North Korean agent faces a firing squad after he was caught using his internet privileges to 'google' Kim Jong Un. This comes after several employees keeps watch on all internal and external electronic communications, were caught surfing the web without authorisation. But a Pyongyang source said a colleague of the agents at the Ministry of State Security informed them and a subsequent inspection revealed their illicit research.   The agents were dismissed, and one who researched Kim Jong Un now faces a firing squad, a ministry source told Daily NK, a newspaper based in neighbouring South Korea. According to Daily NK, they had been developing computer programs for the country's domestic internet firewall, which monitors and controls network traffic, as well as managing remote access, bugging and security systems. The incident has now led to a heavy crackdown in the ministry, with investigators also probing whether the agents involved had leaked illicit infor...

A 49-foot-long narco submarine containing £72million of cocaine and two dead bodies has been discovered off Colombia. The Colombian Navy seized the 'ghost ship' which had more than 2.6 tons of cocaine on it in the Pacific Ocean. Authorities also found two survivors who were given life-saving medical attention at a nearby ship. Local authorities believe that the two who died were killed by toxic gas inhalation.   Spanish media are reporting that the submarine was one of three seized by Colombian officials - with all alleged to have belonged to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The FARC was a Marxist-Lennist guerrilla group which operated in Colombia between 1964 and 2017 and attempted to overthrow the country's government and establish a communist state. The group were involved drug trafficking, extortion, kidnapping, and other criminal activities to finance its decades-long insurgency. It's understood that each narco submarine could carry up ...

The 95th Annual Academy awards were presented on Sunday, March 12, 2023 at the Dolby theater and it was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.   Going into the awards show,  Everything Everywhere All at Once  led with the most nominations, 11 total, including for Best Picture. The other nine films in that top category are:  All Quiet on the Western Front ,  Avatar: The Way of Water ,  The Banshees of Inisherin ,  Elvis ,  The Fabelmans ,  Tár, Top Gun: Maverick ,  Triangle of Sadness  and  Women Talking .   Everything Everywhere All at Once won seven awards at the event. The movie was named best picture at the award show and it also won three acting awards, best leading actress for Michelle Yeoh, best-supporting actor for Ke Huy Quan, and best supporting actress for Jamie Lee Curtis.    The film also won the best original screenplay Oscar and the best director trophy for Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert aka Daniels as wel...