President Donald Trump’s administration is offering a $5 million cash reward for the arrest of Haiti’s most powerful warlord.
An indictment announced by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro accuses Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier of organizing an international conspiracy to fund his criminal gang, chiefly by soliciting money from Haitians living in the United States.
The infamous gang leader is believed to be responsible for barbaric massacres, including a 2018 attack that left more than 700 dead, hundreds of homes destroyed, and multiple women raped.
Cherizier’s co-defendant, Bazile Richardson, is a naturalized U.S. citizen from Haiti who was living in North Carolina.
Department of Homeland Security Investigations agents join Washington Metropolitan Police Department officers as they conduct traffic checks at a checkpoint along 14th Street in northwest Washington (AP photo)
Residents in parts of Washington DC took to the streets Wednesday to protest President Donald Trump’s takeover of the city’s police department and the surge of federal officers and National Guard troops. The demonstrations, marked by chants and calls for drivers to avoid police checkpoints, came as the White House defended the month-long federal control as necessary to combat crime, despite city data showing violent crime at a decades-low, reported AP.
Under both the first Trump and Biden administrations, Washington argued that it needed to limit China’s technological development by barring more and more sensitive products from being exported to its strategic rival. Now, Trump’s decision to allow Nvidia and AMD to sell their advanced AI chips to China in exchange for a 15% cut of their revenue turns the export control regime into something like a bargaining chip.
The Trump administration is already positioning the deal as a playbook for other products and industries. “Now that we have the model and the beta test, why not expand it?” U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Bloomberg TV on Wednesday.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to London on Thursday, a day before a critical U.S.-Russia summit in Alaska.
“Yesterday, together with all partners, today in a bilateral format, we discussed expectations from the meeting in Alaska and possible prospects,” Zelenskyy said in a social media post after the meeting. “We also discussed in detail security guarantees that can make peace truly sustainable if the United States still manages to pressure Russia to stop the killings and engage in real meaningful diplomacy. It is important that we can all work together within a coalition of those willing to achieve effective formats for security work.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed accusations that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
“If we had wanted to commit genocide, it would have taken exactly one afternoon,” Netanyahu said, as quoted in Times of Israel.
The remark was part of a heated defense against claims that Israeli forces are deliberately starving the Gaza Strip into submission, an accusation Tel Aviv has dismissed as outright false.
TORONTO, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) — A petition submitted to Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow demands an end to taxpayer funding of “pride” events.
Earlier this month, Gregory Tomchyshyn, Canadian Campaigns Director for Citizen Go, dropped off a petition to Chow calling for her government to end its lavish spending of taxpayer dollars on LGBT events, including the “Toronto Pride” parade.
“Mayor Olivia Chow and Toronto City Council just handed $350,000 in taxpayer money to Pride Toronto, despite the event’s history of public nudity and indecent displays in full view of families and children,” the petition read.
REGINA, Saskatchewan (LifeSiteNews) — Saskatchewan courts are allowing an appeal against the province’s pro-family laws protecting children from LGBT ideology in schools.
In an August 11 decision, the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal ruled 4-1 to allow an appeal by LGBT activists against Saskatchewan’s “Parents’ Bill of Rights” to proceed through the court system but it has not blocked the law from taking effect.
“It is the government’s position that parents do have a right to be involved in their children’s education, the classes they choose, the decisions that they’re making,” Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe told reporters after the decision was announced.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer praised President Donald Trump during a gathering of European leaders ahead of the U.S.-Russia meeting in Alaska.
Starmer, who has maintained a tense but friendly relationship with the White House, championed Trump for arranging the meeting in Anchorage on Friday.
“For three and a bit years this conflict has been going, we haven’t got anywhere near … a viable way of bringing it to a ceasefire,” Starmer said. “Now we do have that chance, because of the work that the president has put in.”
The current line of contact should be the starting point in any talks, the German chancellor has said
Kiev is ready to discuss “territorial issues” with Moscow, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Wednesday after a video conference with US President Donald Trump and European leaders.
The virtual meeting, which involved the leaders of Germany, Finland, France, the UK, Italy, Poland, and the EU, as well as Trump and Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky, focused on the upcoming summit between Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.
Kiev’s backers in Europe were determined to ensure the security interests of Ukraine and the EU are “safeguarded in Alaska,” Merz told journalists, adding that they relayed a message to that effect to Trump. The group put forth five “key points,” according to the chancellor.
One of them stated that Kiev is “willing to negotiate on territorial issues” but only if the current line of contact is used as the starting point. “Legal recognition” of Russia’s new regions by the Western nations is “not up for debate,” Merz stated.
BERLIN — The top diplomats of Britain, France, and Germany threatened to reimpose sanctions on Iran as an end-of-the-month deadline nears for the country to resume negotiations with the West over its nuclear program and cooperation with the United Nations nuclear watchdog.
The three countries, known as the E3, wrote in a letter to the United Nations dated Friday that they were willing to trigger a process known as the “snapback” mechanism, which allows one of the Western parties to reimpose U.N. sanctions, if Tehran doesn’t comply with its requirements.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Nöel Barrot posted the letter Wednesday to X. He co-signed it along with top diplomats from Germany and the United Kingdom.
Four Al Jazeera journalists including prominent reporter Anas al-Sharif have been killed in a targeted Israeli strike near Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital.
Sharif and another correspondent, Mohammed Qreiqeh, along with cameramen Ibrahim Zaher and Mohammed Noufal were in a tent for journalists at the hospital’s main gate when it was struck, the broadcaster said.
Two other freelance journalists were killed: Moamen Aliwa and Mohammed al-Khaldi.
The “targeted assassination” on Sunday was “yet another blatant and premeditated attack on press freedom”, the news outlet said. The Committee to Protect Journalists said it was appalled by the attack.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed it had targeted Sharif, alleging he had “served as the head of a terrorist cell in Hamas”.
