A U.N. human rights investigator, like other experts, concluded that the Trump administration’s deadly attacks violate international law, and said the strikes could be crimes against humanity.
BBC News – World Dozens of US attacks on boats in the Pacific and Caribbean have killed more than 230 people since September 2025 A special rapporteur for the UN human rights council has concluded that there are “reasonable grounds to believe” that the United States attacks on boats allegedly carrying drugs in the Pacific and Caribbean “constituted crimes against humanity”. The boat strikes, carried out since September 2025 on the s…
The U.S. military's campaign of strikes on suspected drug-smuggling vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea continues. Its latest reported strike, on 27 October 2026 in the eastern Pacific, killed five people, raising the reported cumulative death toll to at least 240 in more than 70 strikes since September 2025. A UN special rapporteur has concluded there are reasonable grounds to believe the attacks violated international law and could constitute crimes against humanity, while U
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New reporting revised the cumulative death toll from 243 to at least 240 and placed the total number of strikes above 70.
Dozens of US attacks on boats in the Pacific and Caribbean have killed more than 230 people since September 2025 A special rapporteur for the UN human rights council has concluded that there are “reasonable grounds to believe” that the United States attacks on boats allegedly carrying drugs in the Pacific and Caribbean “constituted crimes against humanity”. The boat strikes, carried out since September 2025 on the s…
NYTimes – World BBC News – World A report says the attacks, of which there have been at least 68, were not self-defence.
Sky News – World U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles in Miami dismissed the suit with prejudice, ruling that the president did not prove the defendants made defamatory statements with actual malice as required by law.
NPR – Politics U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkin ordered both sides to talk and to agree on a proposed briefing schedule on the motion for a temporary restraining order by Saturday evening.
NYTimes – US The police are searching for a person who shot seven people at a costume shop on the eve of the holiday.
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