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Three-quarters of El Salvador’s gang members have been arrested since President Nayib Bukele declared war on them two years ago, his security minister said Tuesday. The number of detainees now stands at 79,184 and authorities are working to locate the remainder, estimated at around 25,000, Gustavo Villatoro said. Not all of them are in El…
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Uganda’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday rejected a bid to scrap a controversial anti-gay law that is considered one of the toughest in the world. “We decline to nullify the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 in its entirety, neither will we grant a permanent injunction against its enforcement,” Justice Richard Buteera, Uganda’s deputy chief justice and head of…
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The Bauchi State Police Command said that its operatives attached to Operation Restore Peace (ORP) arrested one Sanusi Umar, a 23-year-old on 28th March for raping a 10-year-old boy in anal sex. Police Spokesman Ahmed Wakil in a statement said that the suspect lured the minor with an N30 candy and asked the boy to…
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A newly released video shows US police shooting dead a kidnapped teenage girl they had been tasked with rescuing, in a chaotic incident on a busy California highway. Savannah Graziano, 15, was gunned down as one deputy called her away from her gun-toting father, who had killed her mother a day earlier and abducted his…
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At least 13 Maoist insurgents were killed in a clash in central India, police said Wednesday, taking the rebel toll in the long-running conflict to 50 this year. Police said the gunfight with security forces took place in a remote forest in Chhattisgarh state’s Bijapur district on Tuesday. Local police chief P. Sundarraj told AFP…