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The city of Medellin in Colombia has been on a bit of a journey: from notorious home of the drugs cartels and Pablo Escobar, to newfound haven for sex tourism and now to a city where dozens of men die in mysterious circumstances, often after arranging to meet women on dates. With nearly a hundred cases in the last few years, our Latin American correspondent Guillermo Galdos has been to investigate.

Thousands of Indians have taken to the streets to protest the rape and murder of a doctor in a government hospital in Kolkata city last week. They are demanding justice and better security and facilities at medical campuses and hospitals. The attack has cast a spotlight on how millions of Indian women remain exposed to abuse in the workplace and continue to face severe barriers to justice for sexual violence. On August 9, a 31-year-old trainee doctor was found dead in a seminar room. News reports said she had fallen asleep in the classroom after a grueling 36-hour shift because...

@JohnStossel Harris set to propose a ban on price gouging. CNN ArticleSad her 1st big policy announcement is economically illiterate. "Gouging" didn't cause inflation, Biden's spending did. Her naive staff could learn from these @EductionSITC students why “gouging” is good.

An asylum seeker says he thought he was going to die after masked rioters broke into the hotel he was staying in during violent unrest in Rotherham. Abdullah, an Iraqi Kurd, had been in the UK for four months, having arrived in the country by boat, when the incident took place at the Holiday Inn Express in Manvers. Footage taken by Abdullah and others from inside the hotel, which came under attack by a large crowd on 4 August - Abdullah's birthday - shows people shouting threats and obscenities at those inside. Other video filmed by Abdullah shows protesters attacking...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is pushing his state’s university system to look into former University of Florida (UF) President Ben Sasse’s expenses in the wake of reporting from a student newspaper on the subject. “We take the stewardship of state funds very seriously and have already been in discussions with leadership at the university and with the Board of Governors to look into the matter,” Bryan Griffin, a communications director for DeSantis, said in an emailed statement sent Thursday to The Hill. The Florida Board of Governors “oversees the operation and management of the Florida public university system’s twelve...

Ukraine has set up a military administrative office in Russia's Kursk region, where its surprise incursion into Russian territory continues, according to its top military commander. Gen Oleksandr Syrsky said the office would "maintain law and order" and "meet the immediate needs" of the population in the area. In a video posted on social media, Gen Syrsky is seen telling a meeting chaired by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that the office has been created "on the territories controlled by Ukraine". Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov has said Moscow will send reinforcements to "safeguard" the population in the region.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the head Ukraine’s armed forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi, reported to him the “successful liberation of the city of Sudzha from Russian forces.” The town had a prewar population of around 5,000 people, the Associated Press reported. It holds a measuring station for Russian natural gas that flows through Ukrainian pipelines. “A Ukrainian military commandant’s office is being established there,” Zelenskiy said, adding that “several other settlements have also been liberated. In total, more than eighty.” Ukrainian state TV aired footage on Wednesday of its troops pulling down a Russian flag from an official building in Sudzha.

@OliLondonTV Elon Musk brands Humza Yousaf a “scumbag” after the former Scottish First Minister unleashed a tirade against the 𝕏 owner and threatened legal action after being branded “Super, super racist.” Yousaf launched an online tirade against Musk claiming he is allowing “White Supremacy” to flourish on the platform with Musk responding by highlighting the politicians history of race-baiting comments, including his infamous anti white speech in the Scottish parliament. Now the politican has claimed he is considering legal action whilst calling Musk “the most dangerous man in the world.” Musk responded on X saying: “He’s obviously super racist against...

Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (Ohio) said he “disavows” far-right white supremacist Nick Fuentes, who criticized Vance’s wife, Usha Vance, for her Indian heritage, while arguing the best response is to “ignore” the attacks. Fuentes, who dined at Mar-a-Lago with former President Trump in 2022, went after Vance and his family after he joined the former president’s reelection ticket last month. “Who is this guy, really? Do we really expect that the guy who has an Indian wife and named their kid Vivek is going to support white identity?” Fuentes said of Vance last month. When asked on...

From the outside, Adam Britton seemed like a passionate – albeit quiet and nerdy – advocate for animals. Over decades, the 53-year-old built a colourful reputation as one of the world’s leading crocodile experts. He swam with the apex predators in the wild, lent his pet crocodile Smaug to countless films and documentaries, and even hosted Sir David Attenborough at his home in Darwin, Australia; all the while preaching the need for greater respect for the creatures. Warning: This story contains details of abuse readers might find distressingBut Britton has now been dubbed one of the world’s worst animal abusers,...

The disorder in Britain began after three girls, ages 6, 7 and 9, were stabbed to death as they took part in a Taylor Swift-themed dance party. In the immediate aftermath, locals in Southport were shocked, angry and looking for someone to blame. In the UK, as in America, the authorities do not just release information about suspects and culprits. They “manage” the release. In Britain, as in America, if there is believed to be a racial component to a crime, the authorities are even more careful about what information comes out. But the British public, like Americans, are used...

Judge Andrew Menary KC is about to hand down the sentences to the two men in the dock. John O'Malley, 43, and William Nelson Morgan, 69, are appearing at Liverpool Crown Court after pleading guilty to violent disorder following unrest on Merseyside.

Summary ● Thousands of anti-racist protesters have begun taking to the streets, as officers are on standby for further unrest in dozens of locations in the UK ● Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner said earlier today there's "no excuse for thuggery", adding that police and courts "stand ready" to deal with those involved in riots ● Earlier, three men were jailed for violent disorder in the riots on Merseyside ● A 58-year-old man who attacked a police officer was given three years - while two others received sentences of 30 months and 20 months ● Disorder erupted last week after...

Jonathan Hayes, the man who tried to disarm the Southport stabber and was knifed in the leg as a result, said Starmer must listen to peoples’ concerns on immigration rather than blame the right as the root cause for the ongoing riots. Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme, Hayes warned: “I actually don’t think that the trouble on the Right has got anything at all to do with the Southport stabbings. There appears to be a strong undercurrent of discontent for some time about the levels of immigration. And this is just a catalyst or a trigger, but I...

Robert Jenrick has been criticised by Muslim parliamentarians for saying police should “immediately arrest” any protesters shouting “Allahu Akbar”, the Arabic phrase which means God is great. The Tory leadership candidate was speaking on Sky News about the accusations that police have been treating far-right marches and violence more harshly than other protests. Jenrick said on Sky News he had been angered by the way that pro-Palestinian demonstrations had been policed. “I have been very critical of police in the past, particularly around the attitude of some police forces to the protests we saw since 7 October. “I thought it...

The Metropolitan Police has said it will use "every power, tactic and tool" to protect London against "one of the worst spates of violent disorder in the last decade". It follows more than a week of violence in some towns and cities across England and Northern Ireland. More than 100 people were arrested in central London last week after officers clashed with demonstrators in Whitehall. Deputy Assistant Commissioner Andy Valentine said the force would "not hesitate to arrest hundreds more" people if further violent disorder took place. "The scenes of racist, thuggish and criminal behaviour across the country have been...

The former head of counter-terror policing today likened the worst of the riots to 'terrorism' and called a bid to torch a migrant hotel 'an attempt at a modern day lynching'. Neil Basu said thugs who tried to burn down a Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham while people were inside should be facing life in jail 'not a five-year sentence for violent disorder'. He said the shocking incident on Sunday was an example of a serious act of violence that was 'designed to cause terror' and 'people should look very carefully' at the legal definition of terrorism. Six people will...

RECAP: • A man in his 50s has been taken to hospital following a serious assault during disorder in Belfast last night - police say they're treating the incident as a racially-motivated hate crime • Six people are appearing in court in Sheffield following riots that took place outside a hotel in Rotherham over the weekend - charges include violent disorder and assault of an emergency worker • Extra prison spaces will be made available from next week to manage some of the detentions stemming from the unrest. Plans for the spaces had already been in place but they will...

"It's not easy to stay here—more for my life and my safety; I can't try over and over again with the same result." Mohammed Idris, who owns Bash café, in south Belfast, says he will not reopen after his business was set alight during violent protests. Disorder broke out after an anti-immigration protest in the city on Saturday. Mr Idris has told BBC News NI his businesses have been targeted before, saying his shop on Sandy Row was targeted last year. "My computer shop was completely damaged just like this café. This café was a hope, a place for a...

As Britain braces itself for further outbreaks of violence, questions are being asked about the UK’s police response and how effective it has been. While a number of officers have been injured over the past week as they work to contain rioters, accusations have been levelled at officers for ‘two tier policing’ – amidst fears that some protests are dealt with more harshly than others. So when Sir Mark Rowley, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, was spotted leaving the Cabinet Office by reporters today, it seemed only natural that he be quizzed on the matter. But when one journalist questioned Rowley...