WARSAW, Poland – War-ravaged Ukraine received pledges for $6.5 billion more in humanitarian aid Thursday at an international donors’ conference in Warsaw that sought to get Ukrainians urgent help while still planning for the country’s postwar reconstruction.
LONDON – The World Health Organization estimates that about 15 million people were killed either by coronavirus or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems in the past two years, more than double the official death toll of 6 million. Most of the fatalities were in Southeast Asia, Europe and the Americas.
BOGOTA, Colombia – Colombia extradited the alleged head of the feared Gulf Clan, who had been the country’s most wanted drug lord before his capture, to the United States Wednesday where he faces indictments in three federal courts.
Oath Keeper from NC pleads guilty to seditious conspiracy A North Carolina man pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiring with other members of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group to forcefully halt the peaceful transfer of power after President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory. William Todd Wilson, 44, of Newton Grove, North Carolina, is the third Oath Keepers member to plead guilty to a seditious conspiracy charge stemming from the Jan.