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Man Threatened Life of Dominican President, Prosecutors Say

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Mr. Figueroa was detained on Monday by a magistrate judge, James L. Cott. Federal authorities in New York have arrested a man who they said had posted threats on the internet to kill Luis Abinader, the president of the Dominican Republic, who arrived on Saturday for the 76th General Assembly of the United Nations. Enrique Figueroa, 47, began making the threats in August against Mr. Abinader, according to a criminal complaint made public on Monday. In one instance last month, Mr. Figueroa posted a video on Facebook invoking the assassination in July of Haiti’s president, Jovenel Moïse, saying that listeners should remember what had happened to him, the complaint said. The complaint, filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan, noted that early this month, the Dominican government provided U.S. law enforcement authorities with a screenshot of an Instagram post by Mr. Figueroa that showed a military-style assault rifle, accompanied by a caption that named Mr. Abinader and said, “W...

Global websites down | Kitco New

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s (Kitco News) - Multiple websites are showing to be offline leaving conspiracy theorists running wild. At one stage the likes of Amazon, Twitter, CNN, and Reddit were all not working as there could be some possible issues with Amazon's AWS system. There are other unverified Twitter reports that Fastly Edge systems are also down and this could be the reason for the outage. Traders are also reporting that Bloomberg's and Reuters' terminals have been affected. These websites are being presented by a series of error messages, including "connection failure" and "Error 503 Service Unavailable". U.K. newspaper The Express say " Our best guess right now is a CDN. A Content Distribution Network, or CDN, is a network of proxy servers and their data centers distributed across a wide area.".The U.K. Government website is also now showing to be offline but it is still unclear what is causing the outages.AP is now reporting that the Fastly cloud system c...