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“I remember the screaming of the people when the trailer overturned — and nothing else, just screaming,” Salvin Lanuza, a passenger on the U.S.-bound truck. told The Tico Times of Costa Rica. These incidents are reflections of record-breaking migration trends, and add to the total of 1,121 people who have died this year attempting to migrate to the U.S., according to the International Organization for Migration. In response to these tragic events, Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has urged U....

Mention the perils of batting lower down the order in ODI cricket and Dharmani could perhaps talk till the cows come back home. Succeed and you’re a hero, fail and you’re shunned to obscurity. While India has been bestowed with batting abundance – predominantly one that is top order heavy, it is lower down the order where the “men-in-blue” have been repeatedly found wanting. The famed Indian batting collapse is legendary....

Grossi’s announcement and the agency report come at a critical moment. The Biden administration is currently negotiating a return to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), with Iran in Vienna. But, as American diplomats tout the necessity of a JCPOA return, the U.N. nuclear chief made it clear that the agreement is outdated. The agreement does not address Tehran’s increased nuclear expertise or its development of advanced centrifuges....

So far, most of what we know involves tangible gameplay features, such as increased bounty slots, new subclasses, and state-of-the-art weapons and armor. Plus, it’s been revealed that Destiny’s Guardians will be tangling with The Taken King’s mysterious big bad Hive entity known as Oryx. Although many would consider the aforementioned DLC to be rather substantial, some are arguing that the expansion doesn’t offer enough content in order to warrant its price tag of more than $40....

With weapon crafting players are able to level up the weapon and select perks they want on them, reducing the need for farming god rolls. The original Dares of Eternity weapons were fantastic when first released, given the player had a good roll. And now that they’re back with enhanced perks in Destiny 2, it’s definitely a good idea to come back and grab them again. RELATED: Destiny 2: Season of the Haunted God Rolls...

Speculation surrounding the lack of new weapon drops built up on Tuesday afternoon and on through the night, and early Wednesday morning Community Manager dmg_04 promised to get an answer for players. And by mid-Wednesday, Bungie released an official tweet confirming that the new Destiny 2 weapons were not yet added to the potential engram drops. As can be expected, the Destiny 2 fan base was frustrated that Bungie didn’t make this clear ahead of time....

In another update to the situation, Bungie now admits that it did accidentally ban some Destiny 2 PC players from the game. In a brief statement, the developer explains that “As part of our ban review process, we have identified a group of players who were banned in error. Those players have been unbanned.” Bungie goes on to say that these bans were unrelated to the third-party programs OBS, Discord, Xsplit or RTSS and vows to “continue to review the process we use to ensure a fun and fair game....

Bungie’s Destiny 2 game director, Joe Blackburn, has gone on record saying that the Witch Queen campaign will attempt to bridge the “canyon” between a baseline Destiny campaign and fully-fledged raid content. To that end, players should expect a more involved and mechanically challenging experience as they progress through the Witch Queen story. RELATED: Destiny 2 Devs Announce Nerfs to Titans and Hunters With The Witch Queen Though Blackburn wasn’t interested in spoiling anything about the Witch Queen raid, which takes place in a broken-down Darkness pyramid, he did explain that Bungie’s goal is to make the players’ transition from campaign content to hardcore raiding significantly easier....

While speaking with Destiny 2 Project Lead Mark Noseworthy, Game Rant was able to talk a little bit about why Bungie feels matchmaking does not work. Noseworthy also shared some info about how Guided Games will support a variety of players with a variety of interests. Matchmaking may have been something Bungie considered for Destiny 1, but at some point the development team decided it was “incompatible” with the core experience....

Completing Override missions and opening both chests at the end will potentially reward Destiny 2 players with some of the new Legendary weapons and armor from Season of the Splicer. Lots of new gear, including several Exotics, are also available this season, but players can also get some new Stasis Aspects and Fragments from the Exo Stranger too. RELATED: Destiny 2 Season 14 Mod Gives Insane Boost to Boss Damage...

Destiny 2 players looking for an even greater challenge can try the new Master difficulty mode. This version of the Vault of Glass allows players to get Timelost weapon variants and awards players with certain Triumphs for the Fatebreaker Seal and title. RELATED: Bungie Confirms Destiny 2 Witch Queen Reveal Date Atheon Boss Fight Encounter In Brief: When the boss fight begins, Atheon will appear in the central area of the throne room, along with groups of Vex Harpies....

How to Grind Elemental Orbs in Solstice of Heroes This method is simple and straightforward, as Destiny 2 players will just need to head to the Shattered Throne Thrall Room. Once there, players will want to activate their Solar empowerment and leave the rest to the thralls who will endlessly charge the player, dying without so much as dealing a little damage to the player. Players can then go AFK or turn their attention elsewhere for a few minutes....

MORE: U.S. vs. China photos | Breaking down the basketball roster The U.S. was awarded free throws on a technical foul on China, and both DeMar DeRozan and Jimmy Butler really wanted to take the shots. So they played “rock, paper, scissors” to decide. DeRozan beat Butler to take the shot, but missed the free throw. The U.S. was up by 32 at that point in the third quarter, so DeRozan probably wasn’t concerned whether he made the shot anyway....

France winger Dembele secured a €105million switch to Camp Nou, signing a five-year deal, as Barca sought a replacement for Neymar following the Brazilian’s world-record €222m move to Paris Saint-Germain. As his transfer edged closer, Dembele refused to train with Peter Bosz’s side - an act which cost him his place in the most recent France squad. But the 20-year-old has no regrets, and says he would have in fact regretted not going on strike had the transfer failed to materialise....

“President [Donald] Trump is wrong that John Bolton didn’t say anything about the Trump-Ukraine Scandal at the time the President fired him. He said something to me,” said Engel, a New York Democrat, in a press release. Trump had earlier complained on Twitter that Bolton did not speak out about “this ’nonsense’ a long time ago, when he was very publicly terminated.” Engel’s announcement that Bolton had indeed communicated with his office regarding allegations stemming from the Ukraine scandal appears to contradict Trump’s objection....

Seven candidates have qualified to appear onstage: Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, Tom Steyer, Elizabeth Warren and Andrew Yang. All seven had threatened to boycott the event over a labor dispute between union workers and a subcontractor at the venue hosting the event, Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. But on Tuesday, union workers announced a tentative agreement with Sodexo, a global company that is subcontracted by the university for food service operations....

Many observers watch Israel’s breakneck vaccination drive with admiration. But several powerful anti-Semites are using Israel’s unmatched efforts to protect its population from the pandemic as a basis for spreading a new blood libel against the Jewish state. Israel, its haters insist, is engaging in “vaccine apartheid.” Israel is “racist” for vaccinating its citizens—both Jewish and non-Jewish—before it vaccinates the Palestinians, who are governed by the Palestinian Authority. Representative Rashida Tlaib is one of the most powerful voices promoting this new blood libel....

Neal Collins, a state representative from the state’s Upstate region, visibly fought back tears as he shared the story of how the 2021 “heartbeat” abortion law he’d supported led to a 19-year-old woman in his district nearly losing her uterus and facing the loss of her life weeks after enactment of the legislation. “That weighs on me,” Collins said during the hearing. “I voted for that bill. These are affecting people....

RELATED: Demon’s Souls: Every Starting Item, Ranked One of the biggest problems when attempting to use magic for the first time is finding the right weapon. Well search no further: these ones are the best for any magic build. Updated January 31st, 2022 by Russ Boswell: There are tons of weapons for players to chose from in Demon’s Souls. Although the game hasn’t received any DLC as of late, that doesn’t take away from the sheer amount of gear that many players will have to navigate through each subsequent playthrough....