Day: March 20, 2024

Ancient city uniting Turkey and Armenia causes bitter divide  MSN

Putin bromance has US intelligence officials fearing second Trump term. https://t.co/Np11h7lSd5

— Robert Morton (@Robert4787) March 20, 2024

Kremlin comments on NATO chief’s visit to South Caucasus  Panorama.am

Bolivian police have carried out the second-largest drug bust in the country’s history, seizing more than 7.2 tons of cocaine destined for Belgium with a street value of nearly half a billion US dollars, the interior minister said, Report informs via Reut

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday let a Republican-backed Texas law take effect that allows state law enforcement authorities to arrest people suspected of illegally crossing the US-Mexico border, rejecting a bid to block it by President Joe Biden’s adminis

Tesla will raise the price of China-produced Model Y vehicles by 5,000 yuan ($694.55) from April 1, the company confirmed to Reuters on Wednesday, Report informs.

The Finnish Border Guard suspects 35 people of smuggling asylum seekers through the eastern border, Report informs via Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company.

New Jersey’s primary ballot system at issue in race for Sen. Robert Menendez’s seat  CBS News

UN-mandated mission on rights in Iran lacks credibility: Rights chief  Press TV

A former police officer was sentenced on Tuesday to about 20 years in jail for his part in torturing two African American men in the southern U.S. state of Mississippi last year, local media reported.

U.S. District Judge Tom Lee handed down a 241-month sentence to Hunter Elward, a former deputy of a sheriff and member of a self-described “Goon Squad,” calling Elward’s crimes “egregious and despicable.”

Lee is also due to sentence five other former law enforcement officers who admitted to subjecting Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker to numerous acts of racist torture after a neighbor complained that the men were staying in a home with a white woman, according to an NBC News report.

On Jan. 24, 2023, the group of six white men, who called themselves the Goon Squad, burst into a home in Braxton, the majority-white Rankin County in Mississippi, without a warrant and assaulted Jenkins and Parker with stun guns, a sex toy and other objects. Elward admitted to shoving a gun into Jenkins’ mouth and firing in a “mock execution” that went awry, said the report.

Months before federal prosecutors announced charges in August 2023, an investigation by The Associated Press linked some of the deputies to at least four violent encounters with Black men since 2019 that left two dead and another with lasting injuries.