US News
- Two million Ellume at home Covid tests have been recalled for giving false positives. [Link]
- Delaware police killed an 8-year-old girl. The District Attorney has charged two teens, who did not shoot the girl, with her murder. [Link]
- The Department of Justice is suing Uber over wait time fees that it claims to discriminate against disabled people. [Link]
- The US has 130,000 migrants living under ICE’s increased surveillance program. The program places migrants under a probation-like system with electronic monitoring. [Link]
- Biden says he will increase access to medical care to vets exposed to burn pits. [Link]
- The Pentagon awards Boeing with a $130 million contract for four CH-47 Chinook Block II helicopters. [Link]
Assange
- Julian Assange will be allowed to marry Stella Morris in a UK prison. [Link]
Latin America
- The State Department urges Americans to leave Haiti. [Link]
- El Salvador will deploy its troops into its streets in an attempt to cut the murder rate. [Link]
East Europe
- Belarus warns the migrant issue on its border with Poland could lead to a military clash. [Link]
- Bloomberg reports American officials are warning Europeans that Russia may invade Ukraine. [Link]
Afghanistan
- Afghanistan’s former finance minister says the country’s 300,000 security forces largely didn’t exist. He estimates troop numbers were inflated by as many as six times and did not outnumber the Taliban. [Link]
Middle East
- A Kurdish woman in Turkey – married to a politician – was sentenced to 30 months in prison after her doctor recorded incorrect dates on a medical form. [Link]
- The US Envoy to Iran, Robert Malley, will travel to Israel, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain. [Link]
- Iran calls for the results in Iraq’s election to be respected. [Link]
- The State Department claims the Houthi raided its Yemen embassy, which has been vacated for years – and seized materials left behind. Three workers were also arrested. [Link]
