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In Haiti, police have fatally shot at least three individuals while stopping an assault on the nation’s central bank. An employee informed AFP that a “group of criminals” targeted the Bank of the Republic of Haiti (BRH) on Monday, resulting in up to four casualties and one guard being wounded.

In France’s largest cyberbullying case yet, 28 people have been sent to jail for up to 18 months for harassing an influencer. The judges found them guilty of harassing Magali Berdah, prompted by a campaign led by the French rapper Booba against “thieving influencers.”

A federal appeals court has frozen the enforcement of Texas’s contentious immigration law, which is among the strictest of its kind enacted by a US state in recent history.

A South Korean-flagged tanker, the Keoyoung Sun, has capsized off the west coast of Japan, leading to the rescue of at least eight sailors, while three remain missing.

Scientists say they have, using Crispr gene-editing technology, been able to eliminate HIV from infected cells. The Nobel Prize-winning technology works like scissors, but at the molecular level, cutting DNA so “bad” bits can be removed or inactivated. 

In a recent talk with the BBC, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Gaza’s two million people are experiencing “severe levels of acute food insecurity.” 

In Santiago, Cuba’s second-largest city, hundreds of people staged a rare public demonstration on Sunday to protest continued power outages and food shortages.

Evergrande, the struggling Chinese property giant, along with its founder Hui Ka Yan, faces allegations of inflating revenues by $78 billion (£61.6 billion) in the two years preceding the company’s default on its debt.

Japan’s central bank has raised the cost of borrowing for the first time in 17 years. The Bank of Japan (BOJ) increased its key interest rate from -0.1% to a range of 0%-0.1%. It comes as wages have jumped after consumer prices rose.

Donald Trump cannot find a private company to guarantee the $464 million (£365 million) he has to pay in a New York civil fraud lawsuit.