The dismembered body of 33-year-old tech entrepreneur Fahim Saleh was found inside his luxurious Manhattan condo, where a chainsaw was left behind, police in New York said. Saleh was found around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday inside his seventh-floor apartment on the Lower East Side. There have been no arrests in connection …
Read More »Cecil Rhodes statue in decapitated Cape Town | World News
Activists in South Africa decapitated a statue of 19th-century British colonialist Cecil Rhodes, a diamond magnate who became wealthy from the work of black miners and then limited the amount of land they could own. The statue in Cape Town is the last to be targeted as part of a …
Read More »Bleak New Record as 71,000 Americans Died from Drug Overdoses Last Year | United States News
Nearly 71,000 Americans died from drug overdoses last year, a new record that predates the Covid-19 crisis, which the White House and many experts believe will further increase those deaths. Preliminary numbers released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that the trend is fueled by fentanyl …
Read More »Seven ships catch fire at Iran’s southern shipyard | World News
At least seven ships caught fire in a southern Iran shipyard, in the latest in a series of explosions and fires that analysts speculate could be part of a state-sponsored sabotage campaign targeting industrial, nuclear and military of the country. No casualties were reported in the port of Bushehr, the …
Read More »Colombian cartels kill those who do not obey their Covid-19 blockades | Global development
According to a new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW), drug cartels and rebel groups are imposing their own bloody coronavirus blockades across Colombia and killing those who do not obey. At least eight civilians have been killed by armed groups, some of them remnants of Colombia’s half-century civil war, …
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