Author: AP

Philippine police have rescued over 2,700 workers of various nationalities who were allegedly tricked into working for cybercrime operations. (June 28)

A Vietjet plane carrying 214 people has made an unscheduled but safe landing in the northern Philippines after encountering an unspecified technical problem. None of the passengers and crew was hurt. (June 28)

Hajj pilgrims in symbolic stoning of the Devil

0628 Today in History

The Justice Department’s watchdog says negligence, misconduct and job failures enabled Jeffrey Epstein to take his own life at a federal jail in New York City while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. (June 27)
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Here’s the latest for Tuesday June 27th: Putin speaks about mercenary revolt; Trump valet going to court; Suspect arrested in Boston-area stabbing deaths; Delays and cancellations plague US airlines.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday said it was a “happy day” as he claimed Ukrainian soldiers had made frontline advances “in all directions.” (June 27)

Honduras has started an El Salvador-style mass sweep of prisons and arrested a suspect in a pool-hall shooting last week that killed 11 people. Police suggested the pool-hall killings may be related to last week’s gang-related massacre of 46 female inm…

A feud between the Wagner Group leader and Russia’s military brass that has festered throughout the special operation erupted into a mutiny that saw the mercenaries leave Ukraine to seize a military headquarters in a southern Russian city and roll seem…

Karen Strier started studying the biggest monkey in the Americas four decades ago, when there were just 50 of the animals left in a swath of Atlantic forest, in Brazil’s southeastern Minas Gerais state. Strier immediately fell in love with the northern…