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No choice: Colombia's ex-guerrillas revert to coca, crime
No choice: Colombia's ex-guerrillas revert to coca, crime
World
by  AFP

When he laid down arms at the end of Colombia's decades-long civil conflict, Eiber Andrade did not expect to ever return to a life of crime. And in the end, Andrade told AFP, he had no choice but to rejoin the criminal underworld and become a coca harvester.

Russia struggles to recruit soldiers for Ukraine: Pentagon
Russia struggles to recruit soldiers for Ukraine: Pentagon
World
by  AFP

Russia is struggling to find more soldiers to fight in Ukraine, even tapping prisons, and many new recruits are older, in poor shape and lacking training, a senior US defense official said Monday. "Many of these new recruits have been observed as older, unfit and ill-trained," the official said.

US regulators sue firm selling sensitive location data
US regulators sue firm selling sensitive location data
Business and Economy
by  AFP

US regulators on Monday filed a lawsuit to stop data broker Kochava from selling smartphone location information that could help trace visits to "sensitive locations" like reproductive health clinics. The FTC is asking a federal court in Idaho to order Kochava to stop selling sensitive geolocation data and to delete whatever data of that kind it has collected.

Death toll in Madagascar police shoot over albino kidnap protest rises to 18
Death toll in Madagascar police shoot over albino kidnap protest rises to 18
World
by  AFP

Eighteen people died Monday after police in Madagascar opened fire on what they called a lynch mob angered at the kidnapping of an albino child, a senior doctor told AFP. Dozens were wounded, some of them seriously. "At the moment, 18 people have died in all, nine on the spot and nine in hospital," said doctor Tango Oscar Toky, chief physician at a hospital in southeastern Madagascar.

Lithuania completes Belarus border fence
Lithuania completes Belarus border fence
World
by  AFP

Lithuania on Monday said it had finished building a fence along its border with Belarus to fight illegal immigration which the West accuses Minsk of orchestrating. Illegal immigration has soared in EU member Lithuania this year, with around 4,200 migrants mainly from the Middle East and Africa crossing the border from neighbouring Belarus.