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USA: Video shows New Mexico police were at wrong house seconds before killing homeowner

April 15 (Reuters) - New Mexico police officers realized they were at the wrong address just moments before the front door opened and they fatally shot the armed homeowner, then exchanged gunfire with his wife, according to newly released body camera video of the April 5 shooting.

Robert Dotson, 52, was killed by police in Farmington, New Mexico, on April 5, after officers responding to a domestic violence report arrived at the wrong house.

USA: What to know about 1st test flight of SpaceX’s big Starship

Boca Chica ,Texas  (AP) — Elon Musk’s SpaceX is about to take its most daring leap yet with a round-the-world test flight of its mammoth Starship.

It’s the biggest and mightiest rocket ever built, with the lofty goals of ferrying people to the moon and Mars.

Jutting almost 400 feet (120 meters) into the South Texas sky, Starship could blast off as early as Monday, with no one aboard. Musk’s company got the OK from the Federal Aviation Administration on Friday.

USA: Jared Kushner secured lucrative investment in the Gulf at the expense of US taxpayers

14 Apr 2023; MEMO: Jared Kushner is reportedly amassing huge fortunes through investment from Gulf countries while being given protection by the US secret service at the expense of American taxpayers. Kushner, who is the son-in-law of former US President Donald Trump, left his White House role in 2021. Ordinarily security service protection would end when an administration departs, however Kushner is said to have reaped the benefits of his time in office months after he left.

UN Chief raises concerns with Russia about Ukraine grain deal

14 Apr 2023; MEMO: UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has written to Russia, Ukraine and Turkiye to raise concerns about the implementation of a deal that allows the safe wartime export of grain from several Ukrainian Black Sea ports, a UN spokesman said on Friday, Reuters reports.

USA: Yemeni man will remain in Guantanamo prison despite court ruling he is no threat

13 Apr 2023; MEMO: A Yemeni man held in Guantanamo Bay for over 20 years without charge or trial will remain in detention despite a US court ruling that he does not pose a threat to the country. In an opinion yesterday over the ongoing case of Abdulsalam Al-Hela, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled that the authorities may not be allowed to keep a man imprisoned in Guantánamo Bay after he is no longer deemed a threat.

Lawsuit against Syria regime filed at US court over torture of Syrian-American national

13 Apr 2023; MEMO: A lawsuit has been filed against Syria in a US court over "widespread and systematic torture in its detention centres", in the latest legal attempt from abroad against the Syrian regime of Bashar Al-Assad and its officials.

UN experts urge immediate action to stop Israel forced displacement, annexation of Occupied Territories

13 Apr 2023; MEMO: A panel of United Nations experts have urged the international community to immediately take action to stop forced evictions and displacement of Palestinians in East Jerusalem, as part of Israel's annexation of the city and "de-Palestinianisation" of the city.

UN experts urge immediate action to stop Israel forced displacement, annexation of Occupied Territories

13 Apr 2023; MEMO: A panel of United Nations experts have urged the international community to immediately take action to stop forced evictions and displacement of Palestinians in East Jerusalem, as part of Israel's annexation of the city and "de-Palestinianisation" of the city.

Big U.S. intelligence leak was by gun enthusiast in 20s, Washington Post reports

April 12 (Reuters) - The person who leaked U.S. classified documents prompting a national security investigation is a gun enthusiast in his 20s who worked on a military base, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing fellow members of an online chat group.

The person shared classified information to a group on the instant messaging platform Discord of about two dozen men and young boys who shared a "mutual love of guns, military gear and God," the Post said.

Interview: U.S. ending COVID-19 emergency hits hard poor population, says expert

LOS ANGELES, April 12 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Joe Biden signed a bill on Monday terminating the country's COVID-19 national emergency, a month earlier than the administration had planned. A leading epidemiologist said the decision adds burdens to the financially-challenged population in the United States.

The new bill immediately ended the U.S. national emergency over COVID-19 enacted during the previous administration and continued through the Biden administration.

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