“All these practices are outrageous and must stop at once,” UN rights chief Volker Turk said in a statement. The report also pointed to the so-called “self-defence brigades” set up to counter the intensifying gang violence, warning that they continue to take justice into their own hands. “Individuals accused of petty crime or suspected of association with gangs continued to be lynched, stoned, mutilated, or burned alive” by such brigades, it said. At least 528…

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Albanese, who has held the position since 2022, did not elaborate on the nature of the threats, nor did she say who had issued them. “It’s been a difficult time,” she said. “I’ve always been attacked since the very beginning of my mandate.” Israel has harangued Albanese, saying she was…

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SINGAPORE: China’s yuan is sliding and market participants suspect authorities are deliberately but slowly engineering a light depreciation of the currency, both to complement an easy monetary policy and to support exports. Several signals have stirred that speculation. While the yuan has declined roughly 2 per cent this year against…

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