North America

About US$3.4 million in emergency repairs are needed to save New Orleans’ historic Cabildo and Presbyte`re buildings that flank St Louis Cathedral from crumbling. The Louisiana State Museum says moisture intrusion at the 200-yearold French Quarter buildings has put the plaster and stucco at risk of breaking off, potentially falling onto pedestrians outside or damaging museum artifacts inside the buildings. The Louisiana Division of Administration’s interim emergency board approved more than US$945,000, the Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism will dedicate US$2.46 million. the six-year delay and final resolution are anything but satisfactory for survivors of his sexual, psychological and physical violence. “It’s really shameful,” said Pedro Salinas, who blew the whistle in 2015 on the twisted practices of the Peru-based Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, and was himself a victim of Luis Fernando Figari’s psychological abuse. Figari founded the SCV in 1971 as a lay community to recruit “soldiers for God”. The group counts some 20,000 members. An investigative report commissioned by the SCV’s leadership, found that Figari sodomised recruits. He liked to watch them “experience pain, discomfort and fear”, the report found. carried out a terrorist attack on a Berlin Christmas market in December, the Interior Ministry in Rome said. The 44-year-old is thought to have met the prospective attacker in June 2015. French prosecutors have issued preliminary charges against a contractor for the far-right National Front who’s close to its presidential candidate, Marine Le Pen, in an investigation into financing political campaigns in 2014 and 2015. The Paris’ prosecutor’s office confirmed that Frederic Chatillon was charged with “misuse of company assets”. Chatillon heads a company that works for the National Front. show of strength for the ruling ZanuPF Party.