— Osiel Cárdenas Guillén is the past leader of the Gulf cartel who created the Zetas — a gang of former Mexican special forces soldiers who became his private army and hit squad. It's unclear why he did not serve his full sentence.
— Their music remains forceful and enchanting, the shows engaging and full of humour.
— Stand News former editor-in-chief Chung Pui-kuen and former acting editor-in-chief Patrick Lam were arrested in December 2021. They pleaded not guilty to the charge of conspiracy to publish and reproduce seditious publications. Their trial was Hong Kong's first involving media since the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997. Stand News was one of the city's last media outlets that openly criticized the government amid a crackdown on dissent that followed massive pro-democracy protests in 2019.
— Yi He clarified that the exchange had only restricted a select few user accounts which were linked to illicit activities, in accordance with stringent anti-money laundering (AML) laws.
— Investigators looking at whether staff hid alleged role of Sudan's army in blocking food aid. Probe also investigating disappearance of fuel supplies in Sudan
— Nearly half of Namibia's population of 2.5 million people is facing food insecurity amid the worst drought conditions to hit the arid southern African nation in 100 years. Food crop and livestock production have been affected and, according to the United Nations last week, 84 per cent of the country's food reserves have been exhausted.
— In front of a crowd of 35,000 spectators at the Place de la Concorde, a parade of 128 often jubilant competing nations created a party atmosphere, and an image of a country still "en fete". As the head of the International Paralympic Committee, Andrew Parsons called for a "revolution of inclusion" in his speech.
— The innovative technique leverages the power of molecular vibrations induced by near-infrared light to destroy cancerous cells, offering new hope in the fight against cancer.
— He and his deputy, a dual Swiss-British national, were accused of embezzling $1.8 billion from the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1MDB between 2009 and 2010. The deputy was sentenced to six years' imprisonment.
— French authorities opened a preliminary investigation in February in response to "the near total absence of a response by Telegram to judicial requests" for data for pursuing suspects, notably those accused of crimes against children, the prosecutor's office said.
— Robert Telles, a 47-year-old former Clark County public administrator, was convicted in the September 2022 death of Jeff German, a longtime Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter in a trial that highlighted concerns around press safety. The jury found the murder was "willful, deliberate and premeditated" and it was carried out by "lying in wait." Telles wore a disguise — including a large sun hat — and hid outside the reporter's home before fatally stabbing him, prosecutors said.
— Jeff German,69, had written about allegations of wrongdoing in the Clark County Public Administrator's office, reporting that Robert Telles, 47, created a hostile work environment and carried on an inappropriate relationship with a staffer. In part because of those articles, Telles lost his bid for reelection in a Democratic primary in June 2022.
— The prosecution used video and physical evidence to tie Telles to the suspect's disguise, a maroon vehicle at the scene and DNA from under German's fingernails.
— In contrast, the defense said Telles had been framed for the death because he was trying to make changes in his political office that upset the "Old Guard." Telles testified in his own defence during the trial and denied wrongdoing, offering up a conspiracy that a real estate company had hired an assassin to kill the reporter and then frame him. "I want to say, unequivocally, I am innocent. I didn't kill Mr. German," Telles testified.
— There have been 14 journalists killed in the US since 1992, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
— The first and most common reason was industry stakeholders often misunderstanding or miscommunicating what problem needs to be solved using AI and what the technology is capable of achieving. Some executives fail to comprehend how the tech can be applied to their business, what resources are required to implement it, and how long the process will take.
— Sea-surface temperatures in the south-west Pacific have risen three times faster than the global average since 1980, according to a regional report compiled by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). It also found that marine heatwaves in the region had roughly doubled in frequency since 1980 and become more intense and longer-lasting. The report said 34 mostly storm or flood-related "hydrometeorological hazard events" in the south-west Pacific last year led to more than 200 deaths and affected more than 25 million people.
— "The newly-adopted law on 'Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice' by the de facto authorities in Afghanistan cements policies that completely erase women's presence in public &mdash silencing their voices, and depriving them of their individual autonomy, effectively attempting to render them into faceless, voiceless shadows."
— "This is utterly intolerable. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk calls for this egregious law to be immediately repealed. The long list of repressive provisions that this law imposes on women reinforces a number of existing restrictions that violate their fundamental human rights, including their freedom of movement, their freedom of expression, and their right to live free from discrimination." — news release
— "The law further tightens the grip on the media sector, with a ban on publishing images of human beings, presumably also those of de facto officials. We call on the de facto authorities to immediately repeal this legislation, which is in clear violation of Afghanistan's obligations under international human rights law."
— Five years after the House of Representative's Environment Committee voted in favour of better protection for insects, Swiss NGO Birdlife has criticised the government's hesitant action. The loss of valuable habitats continues, it says. Overall, almost 60% of insect species are threatened or potentially threatened in Switzerland; 59 wild bee species (9.6%) have already disappeared, according to the 2024 red list.
— According to the rankings, the most climate-conscious canton is Basel City. Appenzell Inner Rhodes lags furthest behind.
— The shutdown results from a dispute over the Central Bank of Libya's leadership and threatens a UN-brokered peace deal. Armed factions mobilizing on each side are involved in attempts to replace the Central Bank head, Sadiq al-Kabir.
— Meyer Burger Technology said it is now going to focus on the module production plant in Goodyear, Ariz., which is mostly installed and in the ramp-up phase, and its existing cell-production site in Thalheim, Germany, will now form the backbone of its solar-cell supply.