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Story highlights Colombian police say they've detained four suspects tied to DEA agent's killing Washington has submitted an extradition request for the suspects, police say Two more suspects are at large, a CNN affiliate reports The agent was killed in a robbery attempt; officials do not believe it was tied to his work CNN  —  Police in Colombia have arrested four people accused of killing a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent during an attempted robbery. Colombia’s National Police said the four suspects they arrested were part of a criminal network of thieves. Two additional suspects who were allegedly involved in the crime remain on the loose, CNN affiliate Caracol TV reported. ...

Austin, Texas CNN  —  Nailia Manzurina’s eyes filled with tears as she remembered the moment she and her two young sons had to separate from her husband in their native Russia. “Praise God it was just temporary,” she said as she wiped away tears. It was late September 2022 and emotions were high in Russia because President Vladimir Putin had just imposed the country’s first military draft since World War II. Social media videos showed mothers and wives wailing as their loved ones were dragged into the war in Ukraine. Young men rushed to neighboring countries in droves to avoid getting pulled into the fight. Nailia’s husband, Mikhail Manzurin, 25, qualified for the draft but he disagreed with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine...

Ottawa CNN  —  Canada will deploy Royal Canadian Navy vessels off the coast of Haiti in the coming weeks, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday, amid widespread insecurity and gang violence in the country. The vessels will conduct surveillance, gather intelligence and maintain a maritime presence off the coast of Haiti in the coming weeks, Trudeau said from Nassau, Bahamas, during a meeting of Caribbean leaders on Thursday. “We need to work on long lasting solutions that will restore order and security, allow for essential aid to flow to those who urgently need it, and create the conditions for free and fair elections so that the Haitian people can live in a stable and democratic society,” he added. While...

CNN  —  Four men have been arrested and charged in Florida in connection to the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, federal officials in Miami-Dade announced Tuesday. The four men arrested on Tuesday are Arcangel Pretel Ortiz, a Colombian national residing in Miami; and US citizens Antonio Intriago, Walter Veintemilla, and Frederick Bergmann, according to a press release. Intriago, Ortiz, and Veintemilla were charged with supporting a conspiracy to kidnap or kill the president of Haiti, according to federal officials. Bergmann has been charged with conspiracy to commit export violations for conspiring to smuggle 20 ballistic vests from South Florida to Haiti for ex-soldiers allegedly tasked with killing Moi...

Despite the glamor of the surroundings, Davi's mind was more than 2,000 miles away, deep in the forests of Brazil, where a health crisis has gripped his people. "I'm in mourning...for my people, who I've lost," he said, referring to recent images that emerged from the territory showing emaciated Yanomami adults and children, some with swollen bellies from hunger. Disease and malnutrition have torn through Yanomami villages over the last four years -- a crisis that experts lay at the feet of the scores of illegal miners who have set up camp in their sprawling territory, spurred by the high price of gold. Yanomami children are dying at a disproportionate rate from preventable diseases, like malaria and malnutrition. At least 570 Yanomami children have died from preventable causes since 2018...

The relationship started during the pandemic and ended earlier this year after mutual consent, Tory said in a news conference Friday. The employee landed a job elsewhere outside of City Hall. At the news conference, Tory apologized to his wife of more than 40 years, Barbara Hackett, as well as to his family and his staff."I recognize that permitting this relationship to develop was a serious error in judgment on my part," Tory said.Tory says he is going to take time to reflect on his mistakes and will work on rebuilding the trust of his family."I want to thank the people of Toronto for trusting me as mayor, it has been the job of a lifetime," he added.Tory was elected as the 65th mayor of Toronto in 2014 and was reelected in both 2018 and 2022, according to the city of Toronto's website.CN...

"Here there's also a split, much more, or as serious as Brazil -- Democrats and Republicans are very split up. Love it or leave it, that's more or less what's going on," he told CNN's Christiane Amanpour in Washington, adding that Brazil does not have "a hatred culture."Both Lula and Biden saw government buildings sacked in the aftermath of their presidential elections by far-right elements that have posed huge tests for their respective democracies."Never could we imagine that in a country that was the symbol of democracy in the world -- someone could try to invade the Capitol," he said about the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot in the US. The similarities between the January 8 attack on Brasilia and the US insurrection include former President Jair Bolsonaro's close alignment with former US ...

Six other children were injured when a city bus in Laval, Quebec, crashed into the day care Wednesday. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, attending a community vigil at a church not far from the day care, spoke of the grief the entire country felt along with the families of the children lost."I reflect on the incredible loss the families are feeling right now, on the hundreds of thousands of parents who dropped their kids off at day cares across the country this morning, holding them a little tighter and reflecting on the senselessness of this tragedy," Trudeau said, surrounded by other mourners in front of the church.The province's premier also visited the community to offer aid and condolences Thursday. "Of course it's tough, because we're talking about children and there's nothin...

The authoritarian leader has jailed dozens of opposition figures and activists, particularly in the lead up to the last elections in November of 2021.Judge Octavio Rothschuh Andino announced the release of at least 222 inmates by the Nicaraguan penitentiary system at a press conference on Thursday, saying several were already en route to the US. "The deportees have been found guilty of treason and charged with serious crimes, they are forever banned from public office and from competing in elections," he added. According to US State Department spokesperson Ned Price, the decision to release the individuals, some of whom had spent years in prison, was "a unilateral decision that the Nicaraguan government took."Each of the individuals who left Nicaragua "voluntarily consented to travel," and...

The driver of the bus, whom police said is a city transport employee, was arrested. Prosecutors said 51-year-old Pierre Ny St-Amand now faces two counts of first-degree murder, one count of attempted murder, two counts of aggravated assault and several counts of assault with a deadly weapon.CNN was not immediately able to identify an attorney for St-Amand.Police in Laval, where the crash happened, said they haven't determined a motive and the investigation is ongoing."We have six kids that have been transported into different hospitals in Montreal and Laval, but unfortunately we have two other kids that died as a result of the accident," Erika Landry, a spokesperson for the police in Laval, said earlier.Hospital officials in Montreal and Laval said the injuries to the six children are not ...