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According to a report, around 80% of the country’s capital, Port-au Price is now controlled by gangs, but their power has been felt for a long time. Reportedly, there are believed to be about 200 gangs in Haiti, two in the capital; the g9 is led by a former police officer, the second is gpep, both groups have been accused of killings and sexual violence.

According to the report, at first being rivals, the two reached a pact last year to cooperate and oust the haitian president. Reportedly, they have promised to oppose outside intervention.

According to the report, gangs control some ports and water facilities, access to food and water is limited and inflation is a problem. Reportedly, more than 310,000 people are displaced, 15,000 in the past weeks, schools remain shut. According to the report, for years Haiti’s gangs have been associated with political parties.

According to a report, efforts to achieve a pause in the fighting have failed, and ahead of a military initiative, the israeli defence force is planning to move 1.4 million Palestinians from Rafah where they say hamas fighters are hiding. Reportedly, Israel said civilians will be directed to humanitarian zones where they will receive temporary housing, food and water.

According to the report, atleast 6 people have died and 83 were injured when the idf opened fire on people near a food distribution point in Gaza city. Reportedly, atleast 5 people were killed when the idf bombed an unrwa centre in Rafah.

According to a report, Hunter Biden tried to make a deal concerning tax and gun charges, to no avail. Reportedly, he was charged with a second indictment that said Mr Biden junior had failed to pay $1.4 million in tax that he owed for years 2016-2019. According to reports, he was also indicted for lying about his drug addiction on an application to purchase a handgun, and republicans made enquiries into Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings that resulted in the president being impeached.

Reportedly, a number of republicans, including Donald Trump were said to have motivated the proceedings, conducted by the judiciary, oversight and ways and means committees, however it was said that the motivation to impeach the u.s. president were driven by resentment at Donald Trump’s two impeachments and that the charges related to falsehoods. According to reports, witness Alexander Smirnov was arrested in February.

According to a report, a new russian school text book has been designed for a series of new lessons entitled fundamentals of security and defence of the motherland. Reportedly, former soldiers are expected to teach the lesson and some of those returning from the war have been offered free training courses to become teachers. According to the report, the subject which will replace the lesson, fundamentals of safe living will be a compulsory one day a week course.

Reportedly, the first textbook for the new lesson is filled with stories describing the heroics of russian soldiers from the 13th Century until the present day. According to the report, the book’s authors cover Joseph Stalin, world war 2 and the seizing of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula in 2014, a section is devoted to Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine. Reportedly, according to the book, following Russia’s invasion the ukrainian government initiated a crackdown on anything russian, the authors said it was Ukraine and nato who planned to start the war.

According to the report, another section of the book starts with an overview of the structure of the russian armed forces and calls for over 18s to enlist. Reportedly, Russia does not give details of loss of life during the war with Ukraine.

According to a report, a new land route has been used to deliver food to northern Gaza for the first time in three weeks. Reportedly, the idf said six lorries from the world food program crossed via a gate in the Gaza border fence to reach the north and deliver enough food for 25,000 people in Gaza city. According to the report, israeli officials carried out prior checks at the Kerem Shalom crossing.

Reportedly, the charity boat, ‘Open Arms’ set sail from Cyprus on Tuesday, but access by road proves to be the quickest way to get food aid to Gaza.

According to a report, the results of super Tuesday were that Joe Biden and Donald Trump have confirmed their party’s nominations for the election in November, though polls indicate u.s. citizens are dissatisfied with the prospect of another showdown between the two.

Reportedly, citing positive economic trends, Joe Biden said the u.s. was in the middle of a comeback, but faced challenges to its future as a democracy as well as those seeking to pass abortion restrictions and cut social programmes. According to the report, Mr Trump has promised to fight crime, boost domestic energy production, tax foreign imports and end the war in Ukraine.

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According to a report, a former Boeing employee who had been raising concerns regarding production standards has been found dead. Reportedly, John Barnett had worked for Boeing for 32 years until his retirement in 2017, in the days before his death he had been giving evidence in a lawsuit against the company.

According to the report, from 2010 he worked as a quality manager making the 787 Dreamliner that is mainly used on long hauls. Reportedly, Mr Barnett said the push to get new aircraft built meant under pressure workers on the production line had been fitting sub standard parts, and he said he had uncovered serious problems with oxygen systems which could mean one in four would not work in an emergency. According to the report, he said that workers had failed to follow procedures intended to track components, allowing defective components to go missing.

Reportedly, Mr Barnett said he had alerted managers to his concerns but that no action had been taken. According to the report, Boeing has denied the charges, however the federal aviation administration did uphold some of Mr Barnett’s concerns. Reportedly, he had been in Charleston, due to undergo further questioning on Saturday but was found dead in his truck in the hotel carpark. According to the report, the Charleston coroner said he died of a self inflicted wound.

Reportedly, his death comes at a time when production standards at Boeing and its key supplier, Spirit Aerosystems are under scrutiny. According to the report, this follows an incident in early January when an unused emergency door blew off a brand new Boeing 737 Max shortly after taking off. Reportedly, the u.s. national transportation safety board suggested that four key bolts designed to hold the door securely in place were not fitted. According to the report, the federal aviation administration said a six week audit of the company had found multiple instances when they had failed to comply with manufacturing quality control requirements.

According to a report, the prime minister of Haiti, Mr Ariel Henry has announced his resignation. Reportedly, he urged haitians to remain calm in a video address, saying, “The government I am leading will resign immediately after the installation of a transitional council.” According to the report, Mr Henry who is stuck in Puerto Rico has been prime minister since 2021 following the assassination of President Jovenel Moise and has repeatedly postponed elections, saying security must be restored first. Reportedly, haitians have questioned him governing the country for so long without an elected president.

According to the report, armed gangs who control most parts of the capital and some government buildings have demanded the resignation of the unelected prime minister. Reportedly, the police force is weak and nearly 40 police stations are destroyed. According to the report, the u.s. secretary of state has committed a total of $300 million to the 1,000 strong u.n. backed security force to be led by Kenya.

According to the report, the Guyana president who is chairman of the caricom group of Caribbean nations said he acknowledged the resignation upon the establishment of a transitional presidential council who will be mandated to swiftly appoint an interim prime minister; he said that anyone intending to run in Haiti’s next elections will not be able to participate.

According to a report, India has signed a free trade agreement with four non eu countries, Norway, Switzerland, Iceland and Liechtenstein. Reportedly, the agreement comes after almost 16 years of negotiations. According to the report, under the deal India will lift most import tariffs on industrial goods in return for 15 years of investments. Reportedly, the uk are negotiating a similar deal with India.

According to a report, al qaeda’s Yemen branch has announced the death of its leader. Reportedly, a video published by al qaeda in the arabian peninsula (aqap) showed Khalif Batarfi, a Saudi arabian man in his forties wrapped in a funeral shroud and the group’s banner. According to the report, in 2018 the u.s. designated Khalif Batarfi a global terrorist and placed a bounty on him of $5 million.

Reportedly, the group’s new chief is Saad bin Atef al Awiaki, the u.n. said the two men led conflicting wings with Saad Awiaki gaining the support of some tribes.

According to the report, aqap was considered the most active and dangerous regional affiliate of al-qaeda, it planned airline bomb attacks against the u.s., claimed to be behind the 2015 bomb attacks in France that killed 17 people and a 2019 attack in the u.s. that killed three people.

Reportedly, aqap sustained setbacks and leadership losses as a result of anti terrorist initiatives; a drone attack in 2023 killed a leader and another man who supervised media and other matters. According to the report, the group’s fighters have a strong presence in Sabya and Abyan in southern Yemen, they have attacked government forces and the seperatist southern transitional council.