#BREAKING Mexico president says at least 22 Mexicans among dead in Texas trailer truck, 50 dead in total
#BREAKING White House calls deaths of immigrants in Texas trailer truck 'absolutely horrific and heartbreaking'
#UPDATE US police on Tuesday were investigating the grim discovery of about 50 bodies in and around a trailer truck abandoned in sweltering heat near the Texas city of #SanAntonio, with victims identified as being from Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras u.afp.com/wD96
#BREAKING President Biden says Texas migrant deaths show need to go after 'criminal smuggling industry'
#UPDATE US President Joe Biden on Tuesday said the mass deaths of migrants trapped in a truck in Texas shows the need to "go after" the criminal smuggling industry
#UPDATE US authorities opened a criminal investigation Tuesday after 50 migrants packed into a stifling trailer died in Texas, with President Joe Biden blaming professional smugglers for the tragedy u.afp.com/wDyP
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#BREAKING Russia poses a 'direct threat' to NATO security: Stoltenberg
#UPDATE NATO leaders meeting in Madrid are set to label Russia a menace to their security as they overhaul the alliance's defences in response to the war on Ukraine, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said.
"We'll state clearly that Russia poses a direct threat to our security"
VIDEO: "I expect that when leaders agree the strategic concept they will state clearly that Russia poses a direct threat to our security and, of course, that would be reflected throughout the strategic concept": Jens Stoltenberg, NATO secretary general
#BREAKING Philippines' Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa says 'business as usual' despite news outlet's shutdown order
#UPDATE Philippine Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa's news company Rappler was ordered Wednesday to shut down, a day before President Rodrigo Duterte is due to leave office, but she vowed to keep the site running
#BREAKING Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years in jail for sex crimes
#UPDATE Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison Tuesday for helping late financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse girls, capping the former socialite's sordid fall from grace u.afp.com/wDFa
New York sex-trafficking trial.
#AFPGraphics factfile on Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell was found guilty in December on five of the six counts she was facing for sex crimes