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US strikes on Ecuadorian fishing boats raise humanitarian concerns but Trump admin not wavering

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Attorney says fishers ‘losing their livelihoods’, but Marco Rubio maintains US still willing to ‘blow up ships if need be’ While the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio , was being decorated in Quito by Ecuador’s president for “helping to promote peace in the region”, 10 Ecuadorian fishers whose boat had been blown up by US forces were adrift in the eastern Pacific. On 8 September, a day before Rubio arrived, a US patrol vessel intercepted the fishing boat Don Rufo in international waters near Ecuador.

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Seattle prosecutors mull hate crime charge for woman who bit circle in victim’s forehead

Suspect, charged with felony assault, under investigation for making racist and homophobic comments before attack A Seattle woman will need surgery for a gnarly wound, after a stranger, who called her “an inferior race”, took a bite of flesh from her forehead in a surprise attack. The incident occurred in broad daylight on 18 September when Diana Gonzalez, 36, was walking to a local convenience store and the alleged assailant, identified by prosecutors as Kamilia Chadli, threw a food wrapper at her, the victim told Seattle police .

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Third person arrested in death of Tasia Fortune, as police say hanging was staged

Eric Clark, 45, charged with murder as autopsy concludes Fortune was dead days before body discovered in tree A third person has been arrested in the death of 29-year-old Tasia Fortune in Mississippi ’s capital city, while investigators said they had determined the scene where her body was found hanging had been staged. Eric Clark, 45, surrendered to authorities on Friday and was charged with murder, according to the Jackson police department (JPD). Clark was scheduled to make a court appearance on Monday.