The scene in a low-lying field northwest of the battered and flood-soaked Ukrainian city of Kherson on Friday could almost be described as a ballet of bomb detection.
As Haiti's police struggle to contain powerful armed gangs, a disagreement between the Dominican Republic and Canada spilled out into the public on Friday, further complicating an international plan to boost Haiti's outgunned police force.
After three days of unwavering grief in Greece following the sinking of a vessel carrying hundreds of migrants to Europe, two brothers had a tearful reunion. Meanwhile, UN officials and human rights groups called on European authorities to get tougher on human traffickers and demanded safer migration routes for asylum seekers.
Fifteen Hawksbill and six Green turtles of varying ages were released back into the wild by Dubai's Turtle Rehabilitation Project in order to mark World Sea Turtle Day. They were found washed up on the shore, and rescued to an aquarium facility where they could recover before their celebratory release.
Daniel Ellsberg, the history-making whistleblower who, by leaking the Pentagon Papers, revealed longtime government doubts and deceit about the Vietnam War and inspired acts of retaliation by then President Richard Nixon that helped lead to his resignation, has died of pancreatic cancer.
