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Haiti’s security forces were locked in a fierce gun battle on Wednesday with assailants who assassinated President Jovenel Moise at his home overnight, plunging the already impoverished, violence-wracked nation deeper into chaos.

No. The world doesn’t give a damn about Haiti or the Congo. The more public tears are shed about a place the less they care. When the UN shows up it’s like the undertaker measuring your country for a coffin.

But it proved good enough.

Haitian First Lady Martine Moise, 47, was airlifted to Miami with multiple gunshot wounds on Wednesday Her husband, President Jovenel Moise, was killed in a brazen assassination raid on their home overnight Gang of ‘mercenaries’ posing as US DEA agents staged the raid speaking English and Spanish Shocking eyewitness footage shows killers shout into a …

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Haiti’s ambassador to the United States, Bocchit Edmond, told Reuters the gunmen falsely identified themselves as agents from the US Drug Enforcement Administration, citing video footage the government has in its possession but added: “No way they were DEA agents.” The attack “was carried out by foreign mercenaries and professional killers — well-orchestrated”, Mr Edmond …

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The results come two weeks after voting in the primary ended, on June 22. While early returns showed Adams in the lead, tens of thousands of absentee ballots had to be counted and rounds of tabulations has to be done under the ranked-choice system in which voters ranked up to five candidates for mayor in …

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More than 2,600 people came to the camps to receive shots of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, manufactured and marketed in India as Covishield. Some said that they became suspicious when their shots did not show up in the Indian government’s online portal tracking vaccinations, and when the hospitals that the organizers had claimed to be affiliated …

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First described by psychologists Suzanne Imes, PhD, and Pauline Rose Clance, PhD, in the 1970s, impostor phenomenon occurs among high achievers who are unable to internalize and accept their success. They often attribute their accomplishments to luck rather than to ability, and fear that others will eventually unmask them as a fraud. Though the impostor …

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It’s been a cold winter in Australia after a summer that never even came. Five degrees C in Sydney these past mornings and 0 to -3 C in inland NSW. But the entire southern hemisphere has been extraordinarily cold this year with South America in a deep freeze. Hot northern hemisphere, cold south about sums …

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“Lying flat” is a “resistance movement” to a “cycle of horror” from high-pressure Chinese schools to jobs with seemingly endless work hours, novelist Liao Zenghu wrote in Caixin, the country’s most prominent business magazine. “In today’s society, our every move is monitored and every action criticized,” Liao wrote. “Is there any more rebellious act than …

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New at the Belmont Club. How a globalist elite, intent on controlling the planet, multiplied its vulnerabilities.

Joe Biden said on Saturday he had directed US intelligence agencies to investigate a sophisticated ransomware attack that hit hundreds of American businesses as the Fourth of July holiday weekend began and aroused suspicions of Russian gang involvement.

Elon Musk decides there are more important things to do than live in a castle.

Hackers just perpetrated one of the largest known supply chain cyberattacks so far. The Financial Times and Wall Street Journal report that IT management software giant Kaseya has fallen victim to a ransomware attack that compromised its VSA remote maintenance tool. The company initially claimed that “fewer than 40” of its customers were directly affected, …

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For my parents, like so many people of their generation living out their later years in care homes, lockdown offered not protection but imprisonment. ‘It’s cruel,’ Mam would say, over and over again, in the painful and awkward phone calls that we shared over the last year or so. ‘Just cruel.’ ‘What have you been …

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the governance of Yale probably more closely resembles that of, say, Belarus, than it does of a typical U.S. governmental body or publicly traded U.S. corporation. The Board of Trustees of Yale is elected theoretically at least in part by university alumni, but in reality the only candidates considered for election are selected by the …

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A scientist who credits himself as the inventor of mRNA vaccines, and has warned that they carry risks downplayed in the COVID-19 pandemic, said this week that LinkedIn “shut down” his personal account without explanation.

“We will have practically 20 years to study it,” said Peter Vereš, an astronomer at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian and at the Minor Planet Center, which identifies and computes orbits for new comets, minor planets and other far-flung rocky bodies. That’s an exciting opportunity, he said, because the comet is likely a …

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