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[ad_1] Sebastiao Salgado, a celebrated Brazilian photographer whose striking images of humanity and nature in the Amazon rainforest and beyond won him some of the world's top honours and made him a household name, died Friday in Paris.He was 81.His death was announced by Instituto Terra, the environmental nonprofit that he and his wife founded in Brazil.His family cited leukemia as the cause, saying that Salgado had developed the illness after contracting a particular type of malaria in 2010 while working on a photography project in Indonesia."Through the lens of his camera, Sebastiao tirelessly fought for a more just, humane and ecological world," Salgado's family said in a statement. Working mostly in black and white, Salgado garnered widespread acclaim at home and abroad with his striking images of the natural world and the human condition, often travelling around the globe […]

[ad_1] Syrian authorities on Saturday announced an interior ministry restructuring that includes fighting cross-border drug and people smuggling as they seek to improve ties with Western nations that have lifted sanctions.Keen to reboot and rebuild nearly 14 years after a devastating civil war broke out, the new authorities in Damascus have hailed Washington's lifting of US sanctions.The move was formalised Friday after being announced by President Donald Trump on a Gulf tour this month during which he shook hands with Syria's jihadist-turned-interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa.Spokesman Noureddine al-Baba said the interior ministry restructure included reforms and creating "a modern civil security institution that adopts transparency and respects international human rights standards".It includes setting up a citizens' complaints department and incorporating the police and General Security agency into an Internal Security command, he told a press conference.A border security body for Syria's […]

[ad_1] Kash Patel congratulates FBI as the agency busts an international visa fraud run by two Pakistani-origin men. FBI director Kash Patel announces a major crackdown on an immigration scam that was going on for years by two Pakistani men based out of Texas who placed classified ads for fake jobs to orchestrate the scam.Abdul Hadi Murshid, 39, and Muhammad Salman Nasir, 35, a law firm and a business entity, have been indicted for this visa fraud scheme. The law firm and the business entity are the law officers of D Robert Jones PLLC and Reliable Ventures, Inc.‘From Today, US Army…’: Trump’s MASSIVE Military Announcement During West Point Address"Major arrests out of @FBIDallas. Abdul Hadi Murshid and Muhammad Salman Nasir — two individuals out of Texas who allegedly oversaw and operated a criminal enterprise circumventing American immigration laws by selling […]

[ad_1] Elon Musk says he's back to 24X7 office after X witnessed massive outage across the world Saturday. The major outage in X, formerly Twitter, marked Elon Musk's official exit from politics, which occupied most of his time in the past six months as he announced that he's back to spending 24X7 at work and will be sleeping in conference rooms, server rooms and factory rooms.While the announcement came after the outage, he made it a point to mention Tesla and Starlink as well."I must be super focused on X/xAI and Tesla (plus Starship launch next week), as we have critical technologies rolling out," he wrote. "As evidenced by the 𝕏 uptime issues this week, major operational improvements need to be made. The failover redundancy should have worked, but did not," Musk wrote, replying to a post on how X […]

[ad_1] Palestinian-American author Susan Abulhawa supported Elias Rodriguez who killed two young Israeli diplomats outside Jewish museum. Palestinian author and activist Susan Abulhawa came under fire for supporting the murder of two young Israeli diplomats outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington as she said she was surprised that it didn't happen sooner.Yaron Kischinsky, 30, and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, 26, were shot dead by Chicago's Elias Rodriguez, who said he did it for Palestine.The young couple, soon to be married, were attending a Jewish conference of the American Jewish Committee. They were shot in the back and after being attacked, Milgrim even tried to crawl away from the shooter but Rodriguez ensured that both of them are killed. "Now we’re supposed to feel bad for two genocide cheerleaders after watching these colonizer baby killers slaughter people by the hundreds every […]

[ad_1] Boris Johnson becomes father for the 9th time, wife announces birth of daughter. Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson became father for the 9th time at the age of 60 as wife Carrie Johnson announced the birth of daughter, Poppy Eliza Josephine Johnson, in an Instagram post shared on Saturday. Poppy is Boris and Carrie's fourth baby, born on May 21. “Welcome to the world Poppy Eliza Josephine Johnson born on 21st May. I can’t believe how pretty and tiny you are. Feel so incredibly lucky. We are all totally smitten. Not sure I’ve slept a minute since you were born as can’t stop looking at how completely lovely you are.”Poppy is the final gang member, her mother announced in the Instagram message. The gang includes their other three children, Wilfred, Romy and Frank. Wilfred is their first child, […]

[ad_1] A military aircraft waits for migrants to board from a bus at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. (Picture credit: AP) A federal judge has directed the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a Guatemalan man who was deported to Mexico despite raising fears of persecution there, a move the court said likely violated due process protections.The man, identified in court filings as OCG, is gay and had been granted protection from removal to Guatemala under a US immigration judge's ruling. However, immigration authorities instead sent him to Mexico, where he previously said he was kidnapped and raped, before ultimately ending up back in Guatemala. He is currently in hiding. US district judge Brian Murphy, in his order issued late Friday, described the deportation as having “lacked any semblance of due process,” as reported by the news agency […]

[ad_1] ‘We rebuilt the military’, says Donald Trump in West Point speech, criticises ‘social projects’(Picture credit: AP) US President Donald Trump delivered a fiery and politically charged commencement speech at West Point on Saturday, using the occasion to praise the graduating cadets while claiming credit for America's military resurgence and reaffirming his “America First” doctrine.Speaking to 1,002 graduates at Michie Stadium, Trump celebrated their hard work and honoured the academy’s storied legacy. “In a few moments, you’ll become graduates of the most elite and storied military academy in human history,” he said. “And I know, because I rebuilt that army, and I rebuilt the military.”Wearing his trademark red “Make America Great Again” cap, Trump veered into political territory, asserting his administration had redefined military priorities. “We’re getting rid of distractions and we’re focusing our military on its core mission: crushing […]

[ad_1] Indian-origin man Rambhai Patel pleaded guilty in U Visa scam. If someone becomes a victim of certain crimes during their stay in the US and then helps law enforcement in the investigation process, they are eligible to get the U visa -- after all cross checks and verifications.As an Indian-origin man, Rambhai Patel, recently pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit visa fraud, the entire modus operandi has now come out. The 37-year-old Indian man residing in New York used to stage armed robberies at restaurants so that the restaurant staff could claim a U Visa. In return, Rambhai Patel got hefty money from the staged victims.On May 22, Patel pleaded guilty. He was charged in December 2023 along with a co-conspirator. Patel will be sentenced on August 20. The charge of conspiracy to commit visa fraud […]

[ad_1] Crypto investor John Woeltz was arrested from his NYC pad where he tortured an Italian tourist for weeks. A 28-year-old Italian tourist who came to New York was held captive in a posh Manhattan apartment where he was given electric shock, forced to take cocaine and threatened to have his limbs cut off with an electric chainsaw.All this started from a crypto argument and the host, 37-year-old John Woeltz, a crypto investor wanted to get the password from the accounts of the tourist. The tourist and Woeltz knew each other from previous business deals and the Italian came to New York to meet him.According to the New York Post report, the tourist managed to break out of the house of horrors and ran to a police officer and said he had been held captive for more than two weeks. […]