Firefighters work at the scene of the blaze, Bangladesh Photo: Mohammad Ponir Hossain / ReutersPolice in Bangladesh has arrested, on murder charges, the owner of a factory where at least 52 people died in a massive fire, as it emerged children as young as 11 had been working there.

People cheer as a police car drives past at the Petionville Police station where armed men, accused of being involved in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, are being held in Port au Prince on Thursday. A 28-member hit squad made up of Americans and Colombians assassinated President Jovenel Moïse, Haitian police said Thursday, adding that eight were still at large as the country lurched into political chaos.

Existing food crises has been worsened Eleven people die every minute of hunger, according to a new report by Oxfam, which also found the number of those facing famine-like conditions globally has increased by six times over the past year.

Convictions against former military repressors could mean justice for several thousand people disappeared by the military coup juntas of the Southern Cone. Photo: Twitter: @qudulibreIn Rome, the verdict by which the Italian Supreme Court ratifies the sentences against 18 former military repressors from Latin America and the Caribbean - participants in Operation Condor - a repressive counterinsurgency plan at the time of the military tyrannies of the Southern Cone, is expected to be made public on Friday.