A polygamist religious leader who claimed more than 20 spiritual 'wives' including 10 underage girls was sentenced to 50 years in prison on Monday for coercing girls as young as nine years old to submit to criminal sex acts with him and other adults, and for scheming to kidnap them from protective custody.
Scores of people were killed over the weekend in Haiti's Cité Soleil area, Haiti's prime minister's office said on Monday, after attacks that the state and two non-governmental groups allege were ordered by a gang leader.
As insurgents swept across Syria in just 10 days, bringing an end to the Assad family's 50-year rule, they broke into prisons and security facilities to free political prisoners and many of the tens of thousands of people who disappeared since the conflict began in 2011.
To get out of Donald Trump's tariff threat, Ottawa is downplaying its role in the fentanyl trade, while promising more monitoring at the border. But U.S. officials who've worked on this issue, including one for Trump, say it needs structural reforms to tackle international criminal networks.
