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Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, White House Getty Images Immigration raids have ratcheting up in intensity across the country, including New York City. A sense of fear and unease is rippling through US immigrant communities as the Trump administration ramps up arrests of undocumented migrants, netting criminals and those without criminal histories alike. Federal officers … Read more
Spanish National Police rescued a man after he was kidnapped in the Andalucían province of Málaga and shoved into the trunk of a vehicle — by taking a photo of the abductor’s car’s steering wheel. The unnamed man managed to contact his girlfriend, without his abductors knowing, by sending her a photo of the steering … Read more
Trump reversed an order to freeze federal funds The White House yesterday walked back President Trump’s order to freeze trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans. A federal judge temporarily blocked the order on Tuesday after it caused mass confusion across the country. The Trump administration had struggled to explain the funding freeze, a … Read more
Weeks before Germany’s elections, a heated immigration debate inflamed by a deadly knife attack sparked a political earthquake Wednesday when conservative parties for the first time cooperated with the far-right AfD. FRANCE 24’s Yinka Oyetade speaks to Sophie Pornschlegel, Deputy Director at Europe Jacques Delors. She says that the move is “bad news for democracy … Read more
The leader of Syria’s rebels who toppled president Bashar al-Assad last month was named the country’s interim president on Wednesday as former insurgents cancelled the existing constitution, saying a new charter would be drafted soon. The appointment of Ahmad al-Sharaa, a rebel once aligned with al-Qaeda, as Syria’s president “in the transitional phase,” came after a … Read more
The Lunar New Year begins Jan. 29, and communities across the United States and worldwide are holding celebrations. China’s most important holiday — the Lunar New Year is also widely celebrated in South Korea, Vietnam and other countries where Chinese residents make up significant parts of the national population, according to the National Museum of Asian Art. … Read more
Donald Trump signed into law a bill requiring the federal detention of undocumented immigrants accused of crimes.
Judge Sidney Stein sentenced disgraced former Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez to 11 years in prison on Wednesday, concluding his trial for a “long-running bribery and foreign influence scheme of rare gravity.” Prosecutors had requested a 15-year sentence for Menendez, 71, after he was convicted on July 24 on 16 counts of bribery, extortion, conspiracy and … Read more
A person walks by The Spheres at the Amazon.com Inc. headquarters on November 14, 2022 in Seattle, Washington. David Ryder | Getty Images News | Getty Images Amazon is laying off some employees in its communications and sustainability units, an executive overseeing the divisions announced internally on Wednesday. In a note to staffers viewed by … Read more
Syria’s de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa has been named president for the “transitional period”, state media report, seven weeks after he led the rebel offensive that overthrew Bashar al-Assad. Rebel military commander Hassan Abdul Ghani also announced the cancellation of Syria’s 2012 constitution and the dissolution of the former regime’s parliament, army and security agencies, … Read more