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Haitian President Jovenel Moïse greets a group of Haitians living in South Florida who welcomed him and his wife, Martine Marie Etienne Joseph (far left), as he makes his first visit to Miami as president during a community meeting at the Little Haiti Cultural Center on Friday, June 16, 2017. Days before he was assassinated inside the second-floor bedroom of the home that served as his official residence, Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was warned of threats to his life, several sources have confirmed to the Miami Herald, including one of the individuals who told him foreign mercenaries were in the country.

Using 8,400 eggs, 25kg of venison sausage and 14 bottles of salt and pepper, New Caledonia's giant omelette festival aims to bring people together in a region that is often divided.It is important to have festivals like this.The giant omelette is a symbol of sharing, says veteran chef Reine Chenot.She wears a crisp-white uniform, a tall hat and a bright red ribbon which denotes her as the master.

WASHINGTON Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., the author of the majority opinion that overruled Roe v. Wade last June, told The Wall Street Journal's opinion pages that he had a pretty good idea who is responsible for leaking a draft of his opinion to Politico.Justice Alito added that he did not have the level of proof that is needed to name somebody.

The French Minister of Education, Pap Ndiaye, has offered his condolences at Saint-Thomas d'Aquin Catholic secondary school in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, southwest France after a teacher was killed by a student while teaching a class on Wednesday morning."It is a sad day for our education system.It is a sad day, of course, for this school.

Good morning, baseball fans!I was over the moon yesterday when the San Francisco Giants announced that Emmy and Golden Globe award winner Darren Criss will be appearing to sing the national anthem for the home opener on April 7th against the Kansas City Royals.Criss is perhaps best known for his roles on "Glee" and "American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace" (for which he won Emmy and Golden Globe awards in 2018).

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"The Night Agent" opens with a bombing.FBI Agent Peter Sutherland (an effectively square-jawed Gabriel Basso) is on a train when he sees someone leave a bag behind as they deboard.He checks the bag, finds a bomb, and pulls the emergency brake, saving lives by getting passengers off the train before the bomb goes off.

Surrender makes for an instructional title to Bono's memoir.There's a lot to surrender to in this book, the first by the lead singer of arena-rock giants U2.It's over 550 pages; the prose veers from profound to clunky; there are extended diversions from U2 to talk about his family and his political work; passages praise figures including George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Bill Gates; and, on top of it all, the chapters are accompanied by 40 charmingly lo-fi sketches.

Aleksandar Hemon's new novel is immense.Not because it is inordinately long it isn't but because it contains almost as much as its title promises: journeys that take years, and lives that span continents; falling empires and storied cities; so many wars they blur and merge in the characters' memories; indelible loves, unbearable losses; dreams and songs and megalomaniac delusions; witty allusions, rude jokes.

Paul Schrade soaked up the excitement as the crowd roared and Robert Kennedy smiled and leaned into the microphone: "So my thanks to all of you, and on to Chicago we go."Kennedy had just won the 1968 Democratic presidential primary in California, and there was a palpable sense inside the old Ambassador Hotel that the young New York senator had seized enough momentum to carry his suddenly super-charged campaign through to the convention in Chicago.

This combination photo shows Muhammad Aziz, a suspect in the slaying of Malcolm X, after his arrest, in New York, on Feb. 26, 1965, left, and Aziz outside court after his conviction in the killing of Malcolm X was vacated on Nov. 18, 2021, in New York.AP NEW YORK  The city of New York is settling lawsuits filed on behalf of two men who were exonerated last year for the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X, agreeing to pay $26 million for the wrongful convictions which led to both men spending decades behind bars.

An illegal-fishing trafficker ordered henchmen to kill an expert on Indigenous tribes in June because he was disrupting the illicit game trade, Brazilian authorities said Monday, leading to an assassination that also left a British journalist dead.The killings attracted international attention to the bloody conflict over the Amazon rainforest.

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