Texas migrant deaths: Mexico blames poverty and US border crisis
By Angelica Casas in San Antonio, Sam Cabral & Bernd Debusmann Jr.
BBC News
"Poverty and desperation" led to the deaths of at least 50 migrants abandoned in a Texas lorry, Mexico's president has said.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador blamed trafficking and "a lack of control" at the border - the worst case of migrant deaths due to smuggling in the US.
Nearly two dozen Mexicans, seven Guatemalans and two Hondurans were among the dead.
Those found alive, including four children, were taken to hospital.
The survivors were "hot to the touch" and suffering from heat stroke and heat exhaustion.
Delhi police arrest Muslim journalist Mohammed Zubair over tweet from 2018
Journalists demand release of co-founder of Alt News after he was accused of insulting Hindus
The co-founder of a factchecking website has been arrested by police in Delhi weeks after he highlighted derogatory comments made by a spokesperson for Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) about the prophet Muhammad.
Mohammed Zubair, who set up the Alt News website, flagged the remarks made during a television debate at the end of May on Twitter, bringing them attention they may not otherwise have had.
Russia places sanctions against First Lady Jill Biden and daughter Ashley
Moscow has announced that is placing sanctions on the wife and daughter of US President Joe Biden.
The decision to target the First Lady is part of a new package of restrictions announced by Russia on Tuesday against 25 American individuals.
The people on the list, including the Bidens, are banned from entering Russian territory on an indefinite basis, said Moscow’s foreign ministry.
Cuban boxing star Andy Cruz caught trying to escape island nation
Olympic and triple world boxing champion Andy Cruz was caught trying to escape Cuba, the island nation's boxing federation said on Tuesday, accusing the the fighter of "serious indiscipline".
The Cuban Boxing Federation (FCB) issued a statement on the website of Cuba's INDER sports institute saying it had been "informed that the athlete Andy Cruz Gomez took part in an attempt to illegally leave the country".
But the FCB gave no more details about the escape attempt nor Cruz's current whereabouts.
Cruz, who won gold at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, is considered by many experts to be the finest Cuban boxer of his generation.
Afghan survivor: If another quake doesn’t kill us, poverty might
More than 1,000 people have been killed and some 2,000 injured in Afghanistan’s worst earthquake in 20 years.
When a magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan last week, Naqib lost his home and nearly his whole family. His parents and four siblings now lie buried on a hilltop overlooking the remote district of Gayan in hard-hit Paktika province. The 11-year-old now only has one sister, Nesab, who is four.
The little girl is glued to his side, quietly listening as her brother recalls the June 22 disaster.
Oil producers usually tame soaring prices by turning on the taps. Here's why that may not work this time
Oil-consuming nations wait with bated breath as the OPEC cartel meets once again this week to decide whether to pump more crude into the market to tame runaway prices.
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