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Honduras Plans to Build Only Island Penal Colony in the Western Hemisphere

Honduras Plans to Build Only Island Penal Colony in the Western Hemisphere

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras plans to build the only island penal colony in the Western Hemisphere and send its most feared gangsters there, turning a page in neighboring El Salvador's ruthless approach to murder, robbery, rape and extortion.Honduras' progressive president once promised to address gang violence through systemic reforms to governance and the criminal justice system. Now, President Xiomara Castro plans to build an isolated prison for 2,000 gang leaders on the Islas del Cisne archipelago, 155 miles off the coast, as part of a larger crackdown following the massacre of 46 gang-related women in a prison.Island prisons were once…
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What’s Coming to Netflix in August 2023

What’s Coming to Netflix in August 2023

Images courtesy of Sony Pictures, Netflix, Universal Pictures Welcome to your first look at what's headed to Netflix for the month of August 2023. Below, we'll cover every new movie, series, special, and game coming to the service, whether they're Netflix Originals or licensed titles. Do you want to look further ahead? We've got sneak peeks at what's coming up on Netflix in September 2023, October, and November. Article continues below... As always, don't forget to check out the planned removals for August 2023, with highlights currently including all seasons of Moesha and hunter X hunter, plus many favorite movies.…
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Ukraine claims Russian attacks destroyed 60,000 tons of grain: what is known?  -Europe-International

Ukraine claims Russian attacks destroyed 60,000 tons of grain: what is known? -Europe-International

A new wave of Russian attacks in the Ukrainian Odessa (south) destroyed 60,000 tons of grain destined for export and exposed in the port of Chornomorskthe Ukrainian Minister of Agriculture said on Wednesday."We will need at least a year to completely repair the damaged infrastructure. In the port of Chornomorsk, 60,000 tons of grains were destroyed (...), which should have been sent to the grain corridor 60 days ago," Minister Mikola announced. Solski, in a statement published on the portal of his portfolio. In the previous hours, the same president of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelensky, made a similar announcement. The president…
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The death of an 8-year-old boy in Border Patrol custody was an “avoidable tragedy,” a monitor says

The death of an 8-year-old boy in Border Patrol custody was an “avoidable tragedy,” a monitor says

Border Patrol does not have protocols in place to assess the medical needs of children with pre-existing conditions, according to an independent report released Tuesday into the death of an 8-year-old Panamanian girl in federal custody.The girl's death was "a preventable tragedy resulting from" failures in the "child custody and medical systems" within US Customs and Border Protection, the agency that includes Border Patrol, according to the report.It is the latest damning finding in the May 17 death of Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez, who was in her ninth day in custody with her family in Harlingen, Texas, in the Rio…
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