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With violence surging across Haiti, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Sunday that almost half of the gangs which control the vast majority of the capital are made up of children, and the recruitment of children has seen a 70% increase over the past year. Source link

Former history teacher Yamandu Orsi of the Frente Amplio leftist alliance looks set to defeat Alvaro Delgado of the National Party, part of the ruling Republican Coalition, in Uruguay’s presidential election on Sunday. A victory for Orsi would see Uruguay shift left after five years of center-right rule. Source link

As US president-elect Donald Trump continues to nominate personalities to his cabinet, we take a look behind the scenes at how the US Secret Service is using the most up-to-date technology to protect the president-elect and ease the burden on agents . This report from France 24’s Jack Colmer Gale and our colleagues at France … Read more

Voters in the Swiss city of Basel on Sunday approved putting nearly $40 million into hosting the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest. With funding approved, the glitzy annual TV event will proceed, despite opposition from conservatives. Source link

Italian Jannik Sinner completed a remarkable season on Sunday by sealing his country a second successive Davis Cup title with a 2-0 victory over Netherlands in the final at the southern Spanish city of Malaga. Matteo Berrettini laid the foundations with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Botic Van de Zandschulp, before Jannik Sinner defeated Tallon … Read more

Israel said Sunday that the body of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi who went missing in the United Arab Emirates was found after he was killed in what he condemned as a “heinous anti-Semitic terror incident.” The UAE’s Interior Ministry later said authorities arrested three people in connection with his death. Source link