US envoy to Singapore in trouble over $48,000 misuse, failure to model integrity and threats to staff
The report faulted Kaplan, an entrepreneur, for failing to follow procedures in hiring consultants who submitted bills of $5,650 for “a furniture research project” and of $4,250 to redesign the embassy’s cafeteria.
American basketball legend LeBron James sinks in 40,000 points to extend his NBA scoring record
James passed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s mark of 38,387 points to become the league’s leading scorer on February 7, 2023, against the Oklahoma City Thunder. He reached 39,000 points on November 21 in an In-Season Tournament game against the Utah Jazz.
Research: Junk food addicts with high ‘bliss point’ usually have low appetite for fresh fruits, vegetables and beans
A 2023 research report published in the journal Addiction found that: “Tobacco-owned foods were 29 per cent more likely to be classified as fat and sodium hyper-palatable food (HPF) and 80 per cent more likely to be classified as carbohydrate and sodium HPF than foods that were not tobacco-owned between 1988 and 2001.
Junk food addiction: How Big Food hooks you just as cigarettes and cocaine trigger cravings
Along with speed, “addiction is also deeply enmeshed with memory and the memories we create for food are typically stronger and longer lasting than any other substance. Childhood memories of food can wield an uncanny power over our eating habits for the rest of our lives.”
Why in Senegal’s capital Nicaragua is popular flight path for illegal migrants headed for US
US authorities arrested Senegalese migrants 20,231 times for crossing the border illegally from July to December. That’s a 10-fold increase from 2,049 arrests during the same period of 2022, according to US Customs and Border Protection. Many like Ba cross in remote deserts of western Arizona and California.
UN experts blacklist Sudan’s paramilitary forces as perpetrators of ethnic killings, rape and war crimes in Darfur
The ongoing conflict has caused a large-scale humanitarian crisis and displaced approximately 6.8 million people – 5.4 million within Sudan and 1.4 million who have fled to other countries, including approximately 555,000 to neighbouring Chad, the experts said.
Haitian gang leader vows to oust PM Ariel Henry, warns parents against taking children to school
Violence ramped up during Henry’s visit to Kenya this week. The two countries signed earlier in the day a security deal that Nairobi hopes will satisfy a domestic court’s objections to its plan to send 1,000 police officers to lead a UN-approved mission aimed at tackling gang violence in Haiti.
Without an effective government and at the mercy of roaming criminals, Haitians are taking security in their own hands
Fighting for their right to live peacefully is what Jonel Joseph and Jean-Denis Petitpha have been doing since the night of April 24, 2023, when around 3am they heard gunfire ring through their southern Port-au-Prince neighbourhood of Canapé-Vert.
As Haitian PM Henry visited Kenya and US pushed for police mission, sceptical Haitians were seeking to rebuild their country
Since 400 Mawozo opened fire on a public minibus on February 18, killing 10 people in one of a string of recent attacks, buses have been unable to pass, and Lafontant Chipps is now waiting impatiently for the route to reopen.
PM Ariel Henry visits Nairobi in attempt to firm up deployment of Kenyan police to Haiti
In Haiti, gangs have grown more powerful and political instability has increased since the assassination of President Moïse, who had faced protests calling for his resignation over corruption charges and claims that his five-year term had expired.
