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Stampede at Haiti's Citadelle Laferrière Kills at Least 30 During Easter Gathering

A crush at the entrance to the UNESCO World Heritage fortress near Milot killed at least 30 people on Saturday, with the death toll expected to rise as rescue teams search for the missing.

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Nigeria Convicts 386 Boko Haram and ISWAP Suspects in Four-Day Mass Trial at Federal High Court Abuja

Attorney-General Lateef Fagbemi says Phase 9 of Nigeria's mass terrorism trials produced 386 convictions out of 508 defendants over four days at the Federal High Court in Abuja. Sentences range from eight years to life imprisonment; the next phase is scheduled for 15-18 June.

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Cyclone Vaianu: MetService Issues Red Warnings, States of Emergency Declared Across North Island

MetService has placed Coromandel Peninsula, Bay of Plenty and Great Barrier Island under rare Red strong-wind warnings as former Cyclone Vaianu moves south over New Zealand. Local states of emergency are in force in Hawke's Bay, Whakatane and Waikato, with coastal evacuations already underway.

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UK Shelves £3.4B Chagos Handover After Trump Truth Social Post: 'Do Not Give Away Diego Garcia'

Britain will not introduce legislation to return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in the parliamentary session beginning May 13, the Foreign Office confirmed, after Donald Trump publicly attacked the 99-year Diego Garcia lease as 'a big mistake' Starmer was making with a claimant Trump called 'fictitious.'

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1 in 4 Brain-Injury Patients Diagnosed as Unconscious Followed Commands on fMRI, Multicenter Study Found

A prospective study of 353 adults with disorders of consciousness at six international centers detected command-following on brain imaging in 60 of 241 patients (25%) whose bedside examination found no observable response. Published in the New England Journal of Medicine in August 2024, the findings mean 1 in 4 patients clinically diagnosed as comatose, vegetative, or minimally conscious were covertly performing cognitive tasks that their doctors could not detect.

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Russia's Supreme Court Designates Memorial an 'Extremist Organization,' Ruling Takes Immediate Effect

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation granted the Ministry of Justice's motion on April 9 to designate the International Public Movement Memorial an extremist organization and ban its activity on Russian territory. The court said Memorial is 'under the influence of a destructive ideology' and acts to 'destroy the fundamental foundations of Russian statehood.' Memorial was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022.

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Djibouti's Guelleh Wins Sixth Term With 97.81% After 2025 Amendment Lifted Age Limit

President Ismail Omar Guelleh, 78, will serve a sixth five-year term after taking 97.81% of votes in Djibouti's April 10 presidential election, the country's state news agency reported. A 2025 constitutional amendment removed the 75-year age ceiling that would have blocked his candidacy.

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HHS Renews ACIP Charter Through 2028, 21 Days After Court Blocked Kennedy's Vaccine Panel

The Centers for Disease Control filed a renewal notice for the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices on April 3, continuing the panel through April 2028 despite a preliminary injunction issued in Massachusetts federal court staying Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s appointees. The renewal adds toxicology to the committee's required specialty balance and describes the panel's mission as controlling vaccine-preventable diseases 'and/or decrease symptomatology.'

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The UN's 40-Member Scientific Panel on AI Has Started Work on Its First Report, Due in Geneva in July

The Independent International Scientific Panel on AI, established by UN General Assembly resolution in August 2025 and seated with 40 experts in February, held its inaugural in-person summit this week. Its first evidence-based assessment of AI opportunities, risks, and impacts is due at the Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva on July 6-7.

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State Department Says 'America First Global Health Strategy' Has Put $20.6 Billion Into 30 Bilateral Health MOUs

Friday's press statement announcing a health cooperation framework with the Philippines also disclosed the running total for the Trump administration's PEPFAR successor: 30 bilateral MOUs signed, $12.8 billion in U.S. assistance matched by $7.8 billion in recipient-country co-investment, and a geographic footprint that remains concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa.

ScienceApr 11

Europe Records Its First Imported Human Case of Avian Influenza A(H9N2) in an Italian Traveler Returning From Senegal

WHO published Disease Outbreak News 597 on Friday describing an adult male in Lombardy who tested positive for H9N2 after spending more than six months in Senegal. The case is the first human H9N2 infection ever reported in the WHO European Region. WHO assesses the risk to the general public as low.

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Tesla FSD (Supervised) Cleared for Dutch Roads — First European Country to Approve

Tesla Europe announced Friday that the Netherlands' RDW has approved Full Self-Driving (Supervised) for rollout, after an 18-month joint testing program. The decision triggers notifications to the European Commission and all 27 EU member states that could open a path to bloc-wide mutual recognition this summer.