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Fema employee Jirau Alvaro works with Daniel Mancini, doing a report on the damage to his property, October 6, 2024 in rural Buncombe County, near Black Mountain, North Carolina
AID workers in hurricane-hit North Carolina have faced threats from members of the public following a rise in conspiracy theories, many of them politically motivated.
Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) workers were briefly forced to pull out of the US state as false information about land confiscation, cursory aid payments and deliberate weather manipulations rapidly spread.
On Saturday, a man was arrested after allegedly speaking in a shop about harming relief workers and was found with a rifle and handgun.
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Nigeria’s presidential spokesman grovels to the West in response to Washington intimidation, writes PAVAN KULKARNI
While ordinary Americans were suffering in the wake of 2005’s deadly hurricane, the Bush administration was more concerned with maintaining its anti-Cuba stance than with saving lives, writes MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS